Kate Klingbeil: Grown Woman
Los Angeles
Kate Klingbeil: Grown WomanSteve Turner presents Grown Woman, a solo exhibition by Milwaukee-based Kate Klingbeil which features new anthropomorphic paintings and sculptures that she created upon her return to Wisconsin after the onset of Covid.
Artworks
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)
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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)
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Running From The Past Won't Get You Anywhere Fast, 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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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Grown Together, 2020
Acrylic, pigment, watercolor, vinyl paint, pumice, sand, crushed garnet and oil stick on canvas
28 1/4 x 34 1/2 x 2 inches (71.8 x 87.6 x 5.1 cm)
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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)
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Show Me Your Garden And I Shall See What You Are, 2020
Cast iron and brass
38 x 53 x 1 inches (96.5 x 134.6 x 2.5 cm)
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Intertwined, 2020
Cast brass
6 1/2 x 8 3/4 x 1 inches (16.5 x 22.2 x 2.5 cm)
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Twisted Root, 2020
Cast brass
9 1/4 x 9 1/2 x 3/4 inches (23.5 x 24.1 x 86.4 cm)
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Breaking New Ground, 2020
Cast brass
6 1/4 x 6 x 1/4 inches (15.9 x 15.2 x 35.6 cm)
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Her paintings depict fantastical underground landscapes and complex ecosystems that draw upon her upbringing in the rural Midwest and which represent the dark side of her mind. She has an idiosyncratic painting process that involves the construction of painted passages on plastic that she later removes and affixes to her complicated compositions of above and below ground landscapes. The layering of these painted elements yields deeply textured, sculptural paintings. Grown Woman also introduces a new aspect of Klingbeil’s practice–cast brass and iron sculpture–that she made during her recent residency in the Arts/Industry program at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin. They depict many of the same root characters that are in her paintings, but in casting molten metals, Klingbeil gets even closer to the underground world that is at the core of her practice.
Klingbeil (born 1990, Grosse Pointe, Michigan) received a BFA at California College of the Arts (2012). She had a solo exhibition at SPRING/BREAK, New York with Field Projects (2020); a two-person show with Rebecca Ness at Monya Rowe, New York (2019) and has been in group exhibitions at Steve Turner, Los Angeles (2020); Nevven Gallery, Gothenburg (2019); Andrew Edlin, New York (2019); Paul Kasmin, New York (2018) and Andrew Rafacz, Chicago (2017). This is her first solo exhibition at Steve Turner.
Courtesy of the artist and Steve Turner, Los Angeles
