Martin Kline: Dreams of Venice

On View: May 1 – 30, 2015
Reception: Friday, May 5, 6 – 8pm

Martin Kline paints using encaustic, a process in which hot pigment-enriched beeswax is laid down and then applied. Each layer is built upon, often revealing the layers beneath, the transition creating an overall pattern or rhythm. The color is suspended in stunning colors—red, yellow, blue— some overlapping or growing out of what is beneath. His paintings display Kline’s fascination with the natural world, his shapes evoking flowers or fungi sprouting from a tree or glistening water.

Tiziano

2014, encaustic on panel, 60x60x3.5"
SOLD

Venezia

2012, encaustic on panel, 42x48x3.5"
SOLD

Seiche

2012, encaustic on panel, 48x54x3.375"
SOLD

Dreams of Venice

2013, encaustic on panel, 48x96x3.5"

Turner in Venezia

2012, encaustic on panel, 42x48x3.375”

Veronese e Tiziano

2012, encaustic on panel, 48x54x3.5"

Nocturne in Venezia

2013, encaustic on panel, 48x42x3.5"

Martin Kline

Martin Kline was born in Norwalk, Ohio in 1961 and lives and works in Milan, New York.

Kline’s work can be found in the many collections including the Brooklyn Museum, the Fogg Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum, and the Yale University Art Gallery.