Kurt Giehl

Kurt Giehl is an artist residing in East Hampton, New York. Giehl is a painter using a combination of oil and acrylics. After a successful 23 years on Wall Street, Giehl decided to leave his financial career behind and pursue his passion for art full time. Having only dabbled in art while on Wall Street, Giehl and his husband relocated from Manhattan to East Hampton to fully immerse himself into the East End art scene.

Avid fisherman, Giehl and his husband spend much of their time on the waters across the South and North Forks of Long Island. His seascape paintings are all inspired from the numerous fishing trips in local waters. Like so many other artists, Giehl was drawn to the Hamptons for the amazing light and natural beauty. His seascape paintings highlight the subtleness of horizon - where air meets land meets water. Each painting is orchestrated to not only capture the physical beauty of the east end, but to also capture a state of mind, atmosphere and aura of the images captured on these fishing trips. In other paintings, Giehl smears the paint across the canvas using palette knives and home-made tools to blend and move the paint across the canvas in unexpected and exciting ways.

Drawing from his professional...

Fall 2016 - Elizabeth Dow Home, East Hampton NY

March 2017 - Ashawagh Hall East Hampton - Art Alliance of East Hampton Member's Show 3/18 - 3/26

May 26 - 28, 2017 - Montauk Artist Association Show on the Green

June 23 - 25, 2017 - "Forces of Nature" - Ashawagh Hall East Hampton - Group Show

August 4 - 20, 2017 - 50th Annual Artists of the Springs Invitational

Summer 2017 - Destination Haus, Amagansett NY

May 2018 - Solo Exhibition, Exhibit A Gallery, Los Angeles CA

August 2018 - 51st Annual Artists of the Springs Invitational

August 2018 - Three Roads, Three Artists, East Hampton NY

Summer/Fall 2018 - William Ris Gallery, Northport NY

January 2018 - “The Cloud” Kathryn Markel Gallery, Bridgehampton NY

Spring 2019 - The Loft @ Lululemon, East Hampton, NY

Summer 2019 - Atlantic, Nantucket

August 2019 - Three Roads, Three Artists, East Hampton NY

November 2019 - Folioeast - A curated group of top Hamptons artists

December 2019 - ISLIP Art Museum, ISLIP NY