East Street by Karl Klingbiel

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This is a beautiful polymer, oil, enamel, and ink piece titled "EASY STREET" by Karl Klinbiel. It measures 44.5 x … Read more This is a beautiful polymer, oil, enamel, and ink piece titled "EASY STREET" by Karl Klinbiel. It measures 44.5 x 93 inches.

ABOUT THE ARTIST: Karl Klingbiel is an American abstract painter based in New York City, known for his process-oriented works that explore tension between intention and autonomy in painting. His methodology treats canvases as dynamic "arenas" where layers of paint, collage, and gestural marks build a sense of self-creation, resulting in palimpsest-like images that reflect their own history of revision and distillation. He describes the process as mysterious, noting, “How the images are made, in the aggregate, is rather mysterious to me; whatever I arrive at, it’s going to be something else. If I try to fix on an image, it’s already moving away.
”EducationYale University (BFA, 1983)
Stoekel Fellowship, Yale/Norfolk (1982)
House Scholar Fellowship in Painting (1982–1983)

Career Highlights: Klingbiel has exhibited extensively since the late 1970s, with solo shows at galleries including Maybaum Gallery (San Francisco), Chase Young Gallery (Boston), Caldwell Snyder Gallery (San Francisco and St. Helena, CA), and Elizabeth Moore Fine Art (New York and Hudson, NY). Recent exhibitions include The Palm at the End of the Mind (Maybaum Gallery, 2024–2025) and Every Force Evolves a Form (Maybaum Gallery, 2022). His group shows have appeared at venues like Art Basel Miami, Untitled Art Fair, and the Rose Art Gallery at Brandeis University.

His works are held in prominent collections, such as:Museum of Modern Art (New York)
Centre Pompidou (Paris)
New York Public Library Artists’ Books Collection
Castellani Art Museum (Niagara University)
Agnes Gund Collection
Google Headquarters
Various private and institutional collections

For more on his portfolio, visit his website at karlklingbiel.com or Instagram @karlklingbielstudio. See less