Kate Klingbeil

<em>Unseen Animal</em>. Installation view, Steve Turner, 2022

Kate Klingbeil. <em>Happy Trails</em>, 2022. Acrylic, pigment, watercolor, vinyl paint, sand, pumice, crushed garnet, paper clay, shells, glass, found objects from Dead Horse Bay, driftwood, rocks and bricks from Lake Michigan, ceramic, selenite and oil stick on canvas, 75 x 88 1/2 x 3 inches(190.5 x 224.8 x 7.6 cm)

Kate Klingbeil. <em>I Think I Can, I Think I Can't</em>, 2022. Acrylic, pigment, watercolor, vinyl paint, sand, pumice, crushed garnet, found objects from Dead Horse Bay, rocks from Lake Michigan, ceramic, driftwood and oil stick on canvas, 47 1/4 x 62 x 3 inches (120 x 157.5 x 7.6 cm)

Kate Klingbeil. <em>Dead Horse Bay</em>, 2022. Acrylic, pigment, watercolor, vinyl paint, sand, pumice, crushed garnet, rocks from Lake Michigan, shells, ceramic, mica, found objects from Dead Horse Bay (horse teeth, bone, tile, horseshoe crab, plastic belt, spoon, fork, gardening tool, glass bottles, etc), IUD and oil stick on canvas, 59 x 84 x 3 1/2 inches (149.9 x 213.4 x 8.9 cm)

Kate Klingbeil. <em>Dirt Pony</em>, 2022. Acrylic, pigment, watercolor, vinyl paint, sand, pumice, crushed garnet, rocks from Lake Michigan, shell and oil stick on canvas, 47 1/4 x 60 1/2 x 2 inches (120 x 153.7 x 5.1 cm)

Kate Klingbeil. <em>Horse Girl And The Temptation of Stillness</em>, 2022. Acrylic, pigment, watercolor, vinyl paint, sand, pumice, glass, mica, rocks from Lake Michigan, paper clay, brick, found objects, shells and oil stick on canvas, 56 1/2 x 72 x 2 1/2 inches (143.5 x 182.9 x 6.4 cm)

Kate Klingbeil. <em>Not My First Rodeo</em>, 2022. Acrylic, pigment, watercolor, vinyl paint, sand, pumice, rocks from Lake Michigan, saliva and oil stick on canvas, 59 1/4 x 85 x 2 inches (150.5 x 215.9 x 5.1 cm)

Kate Klingbeil. <em>Root Rot</em>, 2022. Acrylic, pigment, watercolor, vinyl paint, sand, rocks from Lake Michigan and Lake Charlevoix and oil stick on canvas, 60 x 44 x 2 inches (152.4 x 111.8 x 5.1 cm)

Kate Klingbeil. <em>Pull My Hair</em>, 2022. Acrylic, pigment, flashe, crushed garnet, pumice, watercolor, rocks from Lake Michigan and oil stick on canvas, 52 1/4 x 39 1/2 x 2 1/4 inches (132.7 x 100.3 x 5.7 cm)

Kate Klingbeil. <em>Hunnybee</em>, 2021. Acrylic, pigment, flashe, pumice, sand, crushed garnet, chalk pastel, rocks from Lake Michigan, and oil stick on canvas, 59 x 86 x 2 1/2 inches (149.9 x 218.4 x 6.4 cm)

Kate Klingbeil. <em>Attitude Adjustment</em>, 2021. Acrylic, pigment, flashe, pumice, sand, crushed garnet, rocks from Lake Michigan, and oil stick on canvas, 43 1/2 x 60 x 2 inches (110.5 x 152.4 x 5.1 cm)

Kate Klingbeil. <em>The Marble Quarry</em>, 2021. Acrylic, pigment, flashe, pumice, sand, crushed garnet, ceramic, shells, chalk pastel, epoxy clay, rocks from Lake Michigan, and oil stick on canvas, 40 x 50 1/2 x 2 inches (101.6 x 128.3 x 5.1 cm)

Untitled, Miami Beach. Installation view, 2021

<em>Borrowed Earth</em>, 2020. Acrylic, watercolor, vinyl paint, oil pastel, oil stick, sand and pumice on canvas, 40 1/4 x 30 1/2 x 2 inches (102.2 x 77.5 x 5.1 cm)

<em>Night Dress and The Daffodils</em>, 2020. Acrylic, watercolor, vinyl paint, sand, pumice, oil stick and oil pastel on canvas, 24 1/4 x 19 1/2 x 2 inches (61.6 x 49.5 x 5.1 cm)

<em>A Walk In The Snow</em>, 2020. Acrylic, watercolor, crushed garnet, sand, pumice, graphite, cast iron, cast brass, micro plastics from Lake Michigan, glass and oil pastel on canvas, 16 1/2 x 12 1/2 x 1 1/2 inches (41.9 x 31.8 x 3.8 cm)

Kate Klingbeil. <em>Milk Run</em>, 2020. Acrylic, vinyl, pumice, sand, crushed garnet, watercolor and oil stick on canvas, 30 1/4 x 40 1/4 x 1 1/2 inches (76.8 x 102.2 x 3.8 cm)

Kate Klingbeil. <em>The Grown Woman</em>, 2020. Acrylic, pigment, watercolor, vinyl paint, pumice, sand, crushed garnet and oil stick on canvas, 48 1/2 x 60 1/2 x 2 1/2 inches (123.2 x 153.7 x 6.4 cm)

<em>Grown Woman</em>. Installation view, Steve Turner, 2021

Kate Klingbeil. <em>Saturn Returned</em>, 2020. Acrylic, pigment, watercolor, vinyl paint, pumice, sand, crushed garnet, cast brass and oil stick on canvas, 40 1/4 x 50 1/4 x 2 1/2 inches (102.2 x 127.6 x 6.4 cm)

Kate Klingbeil. <em>Grown Together (Thistle)</em>, 2020. Cast iron and brass, 23 1/4 x 32 x 13 1/2 inches (59.1 x 81.3 x 34.3 cm)

Kate Klingbeil. <em>Carrot and Stick</em>, 2020. Acrylic, pigment, watercolor, vinyl paint, pumice, sand, crushed garnet, cast brass, cast iron, micro plastics from Lake Michigan and oil stick on canvas, 144 x 80 x 2 1/2 inches (365.8 x 203.2 x 6.4 cm)

Kate Klingbeil. <em>The Seed and The Sprout</em>, 2020. Acrylic, pigment, watercolor, vinyl paint, pumice, sand, crushed garnet, cast brass, cast iron, micro plastics from Lake Michigan and oil stick on canvas, 34 x 27 1/4 x 1 3/4 inches (86.4 x 69.2 x 4.4 cm)

Kate Klingbeil. <em>Pillow Drift</em>, 2020. Acrylic, pigment, watercolor, vinyl paint, pumice, sand, crushed garnet, cast brass, cast iron and oil stick on canvas, 50 1/2 x 70 1/2 x 2 1/2 inches (128.3 x 179.1 x 6.4 cm)

Kate Klingbeil. <em>Breaking New Ground</em>, 2020. Cast brass, 6 1/4 x 6 x 1/4 inches (15.9 x 15.2 cm)

Kate Klingbeil. Willow Tree Finds A Way, 2022. Acrylic, pigment, watercolor, vinyl paint, sand, pumice, crushed garnet, paper clay, paper, glass, shells, found objects from Dead Horse Bay and Manhattan (balloons, toothbrush, walnut shell, tile, plastic toys, nail polish bottles), rocks from Lake Michigan, ceramic and oil stick on canvas, 87 x 152 1/4 x 3 inches (221 x 386.7 x 7.6 cm)

Unseen Animal. Installation view, Steve Turner, 2022

Kate Klingbeil. Happy Trails, 2022. Acrylic, pigment, watercolor, vinyl paint, sand, pumice, crushed garnet, paper clay, shells, glass, found objects from Dead Horse Bay, driftwood, rocks and bricks from Lake Michigan, ceramic, selenite and oil stick on canvas, 75 x 88 1/2 x 3 inches(190.5 x 224.8 x 7.6 cm)

Kate Klingbeil. I Think I Can, I Think I Can't, 2022. Acrylic, pigment, watercolor, vinyl paint, sand, pumice, crushed garnet, found objects from Dead Horse Bay, rocks from Lake Michigan, ceramic, driftwood and oil stick on canvas, 47 1/4 x 62 x 3 inches (120 x 157.5 x 7.6 cm)

Unseen Animal. Installation view, Steve Turner, 2022

Kate Klingbeil. Dead Horse Bay, 2022. Acrylic, pigment, watercolor, vinyl paint, sand, pumice, crushed garnet, rocks from Lake Michigan, shells, ceramic, mica, found objects from Dead Horse Bay (horse teeth, bone, tile, horseshoe crab, plastic belt, spoon, fork, gardening tool, glass bottles, etc), IUD and oil stick on canvas, 59 x 84 x 3 1/2 inches (149.9 x 213.4 x 8.9 cm)

Kate Klingbeil. Dirt Pony, 2022. Acrylic, pigment, watercolor, vinyl paint, sand, pumice, crushed garnet, rocks from Lake Michigan, shell and oil stick on canvas, 47 1/4 x 60 1/2 x 2 inches (120 x 153.7 x 5.1 cm)

Kate Klingbeil. Horse Girl And The Temptation of Stillness, 2022. Acrylic, pigment, watercolor, vinyl paint, sand, pumice, glass, mica, rocks from Lake Michigan, paper clay, brick, found objects, shells and oil stick on canvas, 56 1/2 x 72 x 2 1/2 inches (143.5 x 182.9 x 6.4 cm)

Kate Klingbeil. Not My First Rodeo, 2022. Acrylic, pigment, watercolor, vinyl paint, sand, pumice, rocks from Lake Michigan, saliva and oil stick on canvas, 59 1/4 x 85 x 2 inches (150.5 x 215.9 x 5.1 cm)

Kate Klingbeil. Root Rot, 2022. Acrylic, pigment, watercolor, vinyl paint, sand, rocks from Lake Michigan and Lake Charlevoix and oil stick on canvas, 60 x 44 x 2 inches (152.4 x 111.8 x 5.1 cm)

Unseen Animal. Installation view, Steve Turner, 2022

Kate Klingbeil. Pull My Hair, 2022. Acrylic, pigment, flashe, crushed garnet, pumice, watercolor, rocks from Lake Michigan and oil stick on canvas, 52 1/4 x 39 1/2 x 2 1/4 inches (132.7 x 100.3 x 5.7 cm)

Unseen Animal. Installation view, Steve Turner, 2022

Kate Klingbeil. Hunnybee, 2021. Acrylic, pigment, flashe, pumice, sand, crushed garnet, chalk pastel, rocks from Lake Michigan, and oil stick on canvas, 59 x 86 x 2 1/2 inches (149.9 x 218.4 x 6.4 cm)

Kate Klingbeil. Attitude Adjustment, 2021. Acrylic, pigment, flashe, pumice, sand, crushed garnet, rocks from Lake Michigan, and oil stick on canvas, 43 1/2 x 60 x 2 inches (110.5 x 152.4 x 5.1 cm)

Kate Klingbeil. The Marble Quarry, 2021. Acrylic, pigment, flashe, pumice, sand, crushed garnet, ceramic, shells, chalk pastel, epoxy clay, rocks from Lake Michigan, and oil stick on canvas, 40 x 50 1/2 x 2 inches (101.6 x 128.3 x 5.1 cm)

Untitled, Miami Beach. Installation view, 2021

Borrowed Earth, 2020.
Acrylic, watercolor, vinyl paint, oil pastel, oil stick, sand and pumice on canvas, 40 1/4 x 30 1/2 x 2 inches (102.2 x 77.5 x 5.1 cm)

Night Dress and The Daffodils, 2020.
Acrylic, watercolor, vinyl paint, sand, pumice, oil stick and oil pastel on canvas, 24 1/4 x 19 1/2 x 2 inches (61.6 x 49.5 x 5.1 cm)

A Walk In The Snow, 2020.
Acrylic, watercolor, crushed garnet, sand, pumice, graphite, cast iron, cast brass, micro plastics from Lake Michigan, glass and oil pastel on canvas,
16 1/2 x 12 1/2 x 1 1/2 inches (41.9 x 31.8 x 3.8 cm)

Kate Klingbeil. Milk Run, 2020. Acrylic, vinyl, pumice, sand, crushed garnet, watercolor and oil stick on canvas, 30 1/4 x 40 1/4 x 1 1/2 inches (76.8 x 102.2 x 3.8 cm)

Kate Klingbeil. The Grown Woman, 2020. Acrylic, pigment, watercolor, vinyl paint, pumice, sand, crushed garnet and oil stick on canvas, 48 1/2 x 60 1/2 x 2 1/2 inches (123.2 x 153.7 x 6.4 cm)

Grown Woman. Installation view, Steve Turner, 2021

Kate Klingbeil. Saturn Returned, 2020. Acrylic, pigment, watercolor, vinyl paint, pumice, sand, crushed garnet, cast brass and oil stick on canvas, 40 1/4 x 50 1/4 x 2 1/2 inches (102.2 x 127.6 x 6.4 cm)

Kate Klingbeil. Grown Together (Thistle), 2020. Cast iron and brass, 23 1/4 x 32 x 13 1/2 inches (59.1 x 81.3 x 34.3 cm)

Grown Woman. Installation view, Steve Turner, 2021

Kate Klingbeil. Carrot and Stick, 2020. Acrylic, pigment, watercolor, vinyl paint, pumice, sand, crushed garnet, cast brass, cast iron, micro plastics from Lake Michigan and oil stick on canvas, 144 x 80 x 2 1/2 inches (365.8 x 203.2 x 6.4 cm)

Grown Woman. Installation view, Steve Turner, 2021

Kate Klingbeil. The Seed and The Sprout, 2020. Acrylic, pigment, watercolor, vinyl paint, pumice, sand, crushed garnet, cast brass, cast iron, micro plastics from Lake Michigan and oil stick on canvas, 34 x 27 1/4 x 1 3/4 inches (86.4 x 69.2 x 4.4 cm)

Kate Klingbeil. Pillow Drift, 2020. Acrylic, pigment, watercolor, vinyl paint, pumice, sand, crushed garnet, cast brass, cast iron and oil stick on canvas, 50 1/2 x 70 1/2 x 2 1/2 inches (128.3 x 179.1 x 6.4 cm)

Kate Klingbeil. Breaking New Ground, 2020. Cast brass, 6 1/4 x 6 x 1/4 inches (15.9 x 15.2 cm)

Grown Woman. Installation view, Steve Turner, 2021

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Kate Klingbeil creates highly textured, multi-layered paintings that depict scenes of nature, especially the small creatures that live underground, in pools of water and in plants and trees. It is the less visible nature of grubs, bugs, snails and ants, a nature that you have to look very closely to see, but a nature that Klingbeil has relished since childhood. It is a magical world in her paintings, a world that runs parallel to the complexities of the human body and its emotional system. Small details coalesce to form larger images. One might discern a human figure sleeping on the land when viewing certain Klingbeil paintings from afar, but up close, there are hundreds of little scenes working together.

Born 1990, Grosse Pointe, Michigan
Lives and works in Milwaukee

Education
2012
Bachelor of Fine Arts, California College of the Arts, Oakland

Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions
2022
Unseen Animal, Steve Turner, Los Angeles

2021
Uprooted, Hesse Flatow, New York
Grown Woman, Steve Turner, Los Angeles

2020
SPRING/BREAK Art Show (with Field Projects), New York

2019
On The Inside, Monya Rowe Gallery, New York
Self Possessed, Juxtapoz Projects at Mana Contemporary, Jersey City

2018
Pith, Hashimoto Contemporary, San Francisco

2017
Thick, Crush Curatorial, New York

Group Exhibitions
2022
Kiaf SEOUL (with Steve Turner)
EXPO Chicago (with Steve Turner)

2021
Untitled, Miami Beach (with Steve Turner)

2020
Our World, Steve Turner, Los Angeles
Vortex, Kravets Wehby Gallery, New York
Outside Touch, Monya Rowe Gallery, New York
Earth Day 2020, Steve Turner, Los Angeles

2019
Artifacts, Nevven Gallery, Gothenburg, Sweden
New Thick, The Royal, Brooklyn
LTDwear4, LVL3, Chicago
Animal Idealism, Harpy Gallery, Rutherford, New Jersey
Big Ringer, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York
SPRING/BREAK Art Show (curated by Caroline Larsen and Sarah Potter), New York City
Fresh Fruit, Situations, New York
Sincere Forms, Hit Gallery, San Francisco

2018
Re_Arrange, Juxtapoz Projects, Jersey City
Livin’ a Dream Reality (American Fine Arts, an Allegory For The Americas by BBQLA), Marvin Gardens, Ridgewood, New York
Greenpoint Group Show, Harpy Gallery, Brooklyn
SKINS, Greenpoint Terminal Gallery, Brooklyn
Us, Ed. Varie, New York
Seed, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
The Ashtray Show, Fisher Parrish Gallery, Brooklyn
Clay Today, The Hole, New York
A World Of People, Underdonk, Queens
Fugue, Honey Ramka, Brooklyn
Bodies of Work, Brilliant Champions, Brooklyn

2017
Pls Reply: A Conversation Between Sculpture and Movement, Sleep Center, New York
Morgan Blair, Kate Klingbeil and Caroline Larsen, Andrew Rafacz, Chicago
Figured Out: Bodily Form In Contemporary Ceramics, Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Chicago
Summer Sessions, Heaven, Chicago
Sad Intention, LVL3, Chicago
Muscle Memory, Athen B. Gallery, Oakland
January, Harpy Gallery, Rutherford

2016
Velvet Ropes (curated by Charlie Roberts and Chris Rexroad), 86 Forsyth, New York
The Last Supper, Turpentine Gallery, Oakland
Playing The Field, Artist Run Art Fair, Open Space, Baltimore
GIFC Vol. 1 (curated by Charlie Roberts & Chris Rexroad), Black Bear, New York
GIFC Vol. 2 (curated by Charlie Roberts & Chris Rexroad), David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen
GIFC Vol. 3 (curated by Charlie Roberts & Chris Rexroad), Steinsland Berliner Gallery, Stockholm
GIFC Vol. 4 (curated by Charlie Roberts & Chris Rexroad), Agnes B’s Gallerie du Jour, Paris
Faces & Vases, Royal None Such Gallery, Oakland
Hanging Gardens, Athen B. Gallery, Oakland

Residencies and Awards
2021
Oak Spring Garden Foundation, Upperville, Virginia (upcoming)
Marble House Project Residency, Dorset, Vermont (upcoming)

2020
John Michael Kohler Arts/Industries Program, Sheboygan, Wisconsin

2019
Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, New York
Art Farm, Marquette, Nebraska
Juxtapoz Projects Residency Program, Jersey City

2017
HARP (Horse and Art Research Program), Barnag, Hungary

2016
Acre Residency, Stuben, Wisconsin

2014
Puppets in Prague, Czech Republic
Venice Art Project, Venice Printmaking Studio in Venice, Italy

2012
Kala Art Institute’s Yozo Hamaguchi Emerging Artist Award, Berkeley, California

Bibliography
2020
Steinhauer, Jillian. “The Thrill of Unpredictability at Two Art Fairs,” The New York Times, March 5
Cascone, Sarah. “Here Are 9 of the Most Wildly Creative Ways That Artists Transformed and Office Building Into an Art Wonderland for SPRING/BREAK 2020,” artnet, March 4
Vogel, Maria. “Looking for Freash Talent? Here Are 7 Rising-Star Artists to Seek Out at Armory Week 2020 in New York,” artnet, March 2

2019
Abelow, Samuel. “Kate Klingbeil: Painting the Recovery of the Feminine,” Art Critique, July 17
Burns, Emily. “Kate Klingbeil,” Maake Magazine, May

2016
Brake, Brock. “The Personal Is Political in Kate Klingbeil’s New Work in “Hanging Gardens,”” The Hundreds, March 1

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Kate Klingbeil

Unseen Animal

July 2–July 30, 2022

Kate Klingbeil

Grown Woman

January 9–February 6, 2021

Our World

Hannah Epstein, Kate Klingbeil, David Leggett, Kevin McNamee-Tweed,  Samantha Rosenwald, Stipan Tadić, Brittany Tucker and Mark Yang

December 2, 2020–January 5, 2021

Earth Day 2020

Hannah Epstein, Kate Klingbeil and Camilo Restrepo

April 22–May 15, 2020

Kate Klingbeil

ART NOW LA

Kate Klingbeil: ‘Unseen Animal’
Zara Kand

Steve Turner

Artsy

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April 8, 2022

Jingze Du and Kate Klingbeil

Artnet News

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December 14, 2021

Kate Klingbeil

John Michael Kohler Arts Center

John Michael Kohler Arts Center
November 10, 2020

KIAF SEOUL

Bianca Fields, Jingze Du, Kazuhito Kawai, Kate Klingbeil and Natalia Gonzalez Martin

September 2–6, 2022

EXPO CHICAGO

Jingze Du, Bianca Fields, Ania Hobson, Kate Klingbeil, David Leggett, Natalia Gonzalez Martin, Kevin McNamee-Tweed, Zachary Ochoa, Dickens Otieno, Thomias Radin, Camilo Restrepo, Gabby Rosenberg, Terron Cooper Sorrells, Brittany Tucker, Shirley Villavicencio Pizango and Yung Jake

April 7 – April 10, 2022

Untitled, Miami Beach

Pablo Barba, Drew Dodge, Jingze Du, Karolina Jablońska, Kazuhito Kawai, Jon Key, Kate Klingbeil, Paige Jiyoung Moon, Shirley Villavicencio Pizango, Kevin McNamee-Tweed

November 29–December 4, 2021

Kate Klingbeil

Unseen Animal

Grown Woman

Hannah Epstein, Kate Klingbeil, David Leggett, Kevin McNamee-Tweed, Samantha Rosenwald, Stipan Tadić, Brittany Tucker and Mark Yang

Hannah Epstein, Kate Klingbeil and Camilo Restrepo

ART NOW LA

Artsy

Artnet News

John Michael Kohler Arts Center

Bianca Fields, Jingze Du, Kazuhito Kawai, Kate Klingbeil and Natalia Gonzalez Martin

Jingze Du, Bianca Fields, Ania Hobson, Kate Klingbeil, David Leggett, Natalia Gonzalez Martin, Kevin McNamee-Tweed, Zachary Ochoa, Dickens Otieno, Thomias Radin, Camilo Restrepo, Gabby Rosenberg, Terron Cooper Sorrells, Brittany Tucker, Shirley Villavicencio Pizango and Yung Jake

Pablo Barba, Drew Dodge, Jingze Du, Karolina Jablońska, Kazuhito Kawai, Jon Key, Kate Klingbeil, Paige Jiyoung Moon, Shirley Villavicencio Pizango, Kevin McNamee-Tweed

Hannah Epstein, Kate Klingbeil, David Leggett, Kevin McNamee-Tweed,  Samantha Rosenwald, Stipan Tadić, Brittany Tucker and Mark Yang