Martin Kline: FIELDS OF CAPTURE
On View: October 9 – November 7, 2026
Reception: Friday, October 9, 5–7 pm
The show consists of blooms, pools and waves, in a wide range of colors and configurations, from natural beeswax to brilliant color hues and gold and metallic reflections, all formed in relief to remind you that encaustic is all at once drawing, painting, and sculpture. Someone once told me that shadow is my métier, and this observation can serve to remind as light passes over a subtle terrain of smooth ponds and lakes, of projecting growths and shelves of stark shadows suggesting not only the realms of the terrestrial and aquatic, but also the celestial.
—Martin Kline
Martin Kline
Martin Kline was born in 1961 in Norwalk, Ohio. While his early encaustic works consisted of discernible lines on gessoed canvas and linen, they progressively became more voluminous, breaking the boundary between painting and sculpture. To further that disruption, he began casting his paintings in bronze using the lost-wax method. While visually Kline’s works look as though they were created spontaneously, each protrusive element is achieved through methodically repeated brushstrokes; a technique that does not allow for errors. The additive process of applying hot wax holds a deeper meaning to Kline, serving as an analogy to nature and growth.
Martin Kline's work is included in many institutional collections, including the Albertina Museum in Vienna, Austria, the Harvard Art Museums, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the MFA Boston, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.