Drawing from a background in graphic design and sculpture,Gunilla Klingberg creates her own three-dimensional, graphic worlds, covering floors, walls, and windows in ornate, repetitive patterns. For her Rice Gallery installation, Klingberg will continue her series, Brand New View (2002-present) in which she reconfigures supermarket, fast food, and big box store logos into large-scale patterns associated with sacred Buddhist mandalas and cosmological diagrams used for meditation.Gunilla Klingberg's installations bring together her interests in everyday consumerism and forms of Eastern spirituality. While in college, Klingberg traveled to India and saw how the spiritual world of yoga retreats and meditation courses were commercially packaged to Westerners. She returned to her native Sweden to see local corner stores being replaced by 7-Elevens, as chain stores and corporate franchising spread. With both experiences in mind, she continues to wonder how the spiritual extends into our everyday world of logotypes and icons, as the spiritual is commercialized and the commercial spiritualized. Faced with the ubiquity of Starbucks coffee cups, Target grocery bags, and McDonald's wrappers, Klingberg explores this tension in dazzling, overwhelming installations of these logos repeated, recombined, and reconfigured. Klingberg explains, “My intention is to make something overwhelming, and to replace the original archetype [the mandala image] with this commercial or urban iconography. Has consumerism replaced something in my private life? Or am I searching maybe for some deeper meaning and would I find it here? It's more about the reflections and questions.”