Visit the studio of esteemed artist Martin Kline in Rhinebeck, NY on Thursday, May 2, 2024 from 2-4 p.m.. Ten spots are available to participate in this terrific opportunity!

About the artist: Martin Kline was born in 1961 in Norwalk, Ohio and came under the influence of art by way of the neighboring museums of Cleveland, Toledo, and Oberlin, which were formative to his upbringing. Kline is the tenth of thirteen children and he put himself through college by joining the National Guard in 1979. He graduated from Ohio University in 1983 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, with a dual major: the first in Studio Art, in the three disciplines of Drawing, Sculpture and Printmaking, and second in Art History with an emphasis on the Italian Renaissance. Kline went to Rome and Florence for the last quarter of college and moved to Portland, Oregon where he began his fledgling career as an artist. He was also a museum guard at the Portland Art Museum (which he refers to as his second education). During this time, he was also teacher at the Pacific Northwest College of Art specializing in color pencil drawing for one year.

Kline moved to New York City in the late 1980s and to the Hudson Valley (Milan, NY) in 1995, where he lives and keeps his studio. He began to work in encaustic (pigmented wax paint) in 1996 and this has been his primary medium, along with the resultant sculptures in bronze and stainless steel, as wax is the vehicle for casting in metal. His work is in the permanent collections of important American and European museums such as the Albertina, The Metropolitan Museum and the Morgan Library Museums in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, as well as significant University museums such as the Fogg Museum at Harvard, Oberlin College's Allen Memorial Museum and the Princeton Museum of Art. His work is represented and exhibited in galleries in America and Europe. Kline's work has also been purchased and commissioned by the American architect Peter Marino for placement in the stores of Dior, Vuitton, Chanel in Europe, Asia and America, as well as a private yacht and numerous residences.

Martin had an exhibition at the NBMAA in 2012, Martin Kline : Romantic Nature and has work in the Museum's permanent collection.

Martin is having a solo exhibition, In Monochrome, opening at Heather Gaudio Fine Art in Greenwich, CT (382 Greenwich Avenue, Greenwich, CT 06830) on November 9.