Paul Kline

Spiritual yearning, melancholy, audacity, jagged, fresh visionary forces of lines and color swatches, balance, and luminosity -- all these features one can find in the paintings of Paul Kline. One might like to meditate on certain images, and one wonders from where they come. Kline is certainly a follower of Abstract Expressionism in American art, whose artists often presented extreme, violent idioms, painted with emotional brush strokes, creating a certain “order” out of chaos of the reality after the war. The language of abstract art seems to be universal and does not need a translating dictionary; it means what you feel and see in the painting for yourself.


What one sees in Kline’s visions is a message that could be found in a NYC lecture by Camus (1947) “that the dignity of man, who was universally culpable for the war, could only be restored by universalism through which all men of good will may find themselves in touch with each other."* Only through person-to-person contact can we overcome national barriers.

*Jeremy Lewison, "A New Spirit of Freedom:" Abstract Expressionism in Europe in the Aftermath of War

Ph.D., Art History
MFA, Painting
BA, Painting

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 – Gallery at The Learning Center, Savannah, GA
2022 – KOKPiT Gallery, Kazimierz Dolny, Poland
2022 – Dzwonnica Gallery, Kazimierz Dolny, Poland
2020 – Design Art Concepts, Miami, FL
2019 – Design Art Concepts, Miami, FL
2018 – Peg Williams Gallery, Short Stories Bookshop & Community Hub, Madison, NJ
2016 – The Art League of the Chathams, Chatham, NJ
2015 – The Art League of the Chathams, Chatham, NJ
2015 – Cortile Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2008 – Town & County Art Gallery, West Hartford, CT

Selected Exhibitions (most recent seven years)
2022: MERGE, faculty/student exhibition, curated by Jeanette McCune, founder Cleo Gallery, Savannah Cultural Arts Center

2021: Visual Conversations: Our Voices, USCB Center for the Arts, Beaufort, SC, Deepening the Meaning: Abstract Contemporary Painting
Wax Applications: Showcasing the Depth and Breadth of Encaustic and Cold Wax Mediums, Texas A&M University – Commerce, https://pride.tamuc.edu/art/wp-content/uploads/sites/56/2018/01/WaxApplicationsCatalog.pdf
Members Virtual Exhibition, EAI Member Exhibition, Santa Fe, NM

2020: Discover the Art of Wax, EAI Member Exhibition, Santa Fe, NM

2019: Art Basel – Miami, two locations, Miami, FL
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