Randy Klein is perhaps best known for his large scale public art sculptures. Recently Klein has explored the language of paint to both capture and express his interest in landscape and place. Working in enamels on aluminum, these large-scale paintings are fresh and direct and his images offer a very contemporary vision of landscape.
The use of colour and pattern as a means to both disguise and reveal, as well as the notions of metamorphoses and transformation are key influences in Klein’s work. His paintings lie somewhere between abstract and figurative, capturing the beauty of landscape in a unique, painterly language. He has found the pastoral not just in the natural environment of the countryside, but also right in the middle of London.
New York born Klein has been living for part of the year in the Italian countryside. After spending his life in cities, he has now rediscovered landscape through the eyes of the city dweller.
The emotional and expressive vision of the natural beauty of Italy has been carried to his images of London, and the result is work that shows a pastoral side of London with an unexpected resonance with the hills of Tuscany.
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Randy Klein
Clouds Enclose the City
enamel on aluminium
125 x 65 cm
£ 3400.00
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Randy Klein
Hand of a Working Man
Bronze
18 x 18 x 28 cm
£ 2850.00
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Randy Klein
Balloon Man on the Beach
Bronze
12 x 12 x 20 cm
£ 1800.00
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Randy Klein
Going Slow Brenchley Gardens
enamel on aluminium
125 x 57 cm
£ 3200.00
Solo Exhibitions
2010
Metacollage, GX Gallery, London
Darlington Arts Centre, Coney Island Angels
2009
Neo Gallery, Cumbria
University West of England, Bristol
2008
GX Gallery, New Work, London
Arte e Ars Galleria, Galatina, Inner Cities
Istituzione Biblioteca Classense, Ravenna, La Via Dantesca
2007
Sculpture, GX Gallery, London
Seasons of the Sublime, GX Gallery, London
2006
Unexpected Landscape , GX Gallery, London
2000
Academia Italiana, Itineris Vitae
1999
Bruton Street Gallery, The Alphabet Series
1997
Midland Arts Centre, Birmingham, Fables from Everyday Life
European Academy, London. Fables from Everyday Life
1996
Carasi Arte Contemporanea, Fables from EverydayLife
1995
Hobart and William Smith Colleges. New York, Print Survey
1994
Lamont Gallery
Midland Arts Centre, Birmingham
1993
Sala Convegni Ancora
Lamont Gallery
1992
Beaux Arts Gallery
1991
Carasi Arte Contemporanea. People with their Things
Galleria d’Arte Pontormo, Italy
Acadamia Italiana, lmages out of Dante
1990
Chapman Gallery
1989
Carasi Arte Contemporanea
1987
Wlndsor Arts Centre, The Mortal Comedy
1986
Barbican Arts Centre. Austin/Desmond Fine Arts
Galerie Jean-Pierre Lavigne, Paris
1985
Bath Contemporary Art Fair
1982
BACA. New York, Florida
1980
112 Greene St.. New York, Tin Temples
Manhattan Lab Museum, Fantastic Structures
Group Exhibitions
1998 - 2010
Royal Academy summer Exhibition
2008
London Print Studio
2005
McHardy Sculpture Gallery
Spectrum Fine Art
2003
Zimmer Stewart Gallery
2001
Owens Art Gallery, New Brunswick, Canada
Collins Gallery, the Plate Show, Glasgow and touring, 1998-2001
University of West of England and touring, Books by Artists, 1998-2001
1997
Wolesley Fine Arts
1995
lnternational Confemporary Art Fair, 1991-1995
1993
Hardware Gallery
1992
Lamont GalleryAgnews Diorama Gallery, 1984, 89, 90, 91. 92
Carasi Arte Contemporanea, 1991-1992
1991
Prema Arts Centre. Southwest Arts, The Face
1989
Smith’s Gallery, Americans Abroad
1988
L.A. Contemporary Art Fair
Pomeroy Purdy Gallery
Hardware Gallery
1986
Salon ds Mont Moulins, Paris
1983
Whitechapel Art Gallery
1981
P.S.122 New York
N.Y.U. Art Gallery
Alain Bilhaud Gallery, New York
Public lmage Gallery, New York
Gimpel, New York
Collections
Tate Gallery, London
British Museum, London
Museum of Modern Art. New York
Brooklyn Museum
New York Public Library Print Collection
Scottish Arts Council
Getty Museum
IBM, UK
Lady Hambleden
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Accademia ltaliana
New York Public Library
Brimmington Park, London
Paterson Park, London
Manchester Metropolitan University
Films
Home Truths, 2005
Family Ties, 2004
Tales of New York, with Caroline Gardiner, director, 2001
Awards
2005
Whose London, London Television Award
2002
Arts Council Lottery Award
1995
Arts Council of Great Britain, National Lotterv
1993
New Work Trust, West Midlands Arts
1988
Brown and Tawse Steel
1987-89
Sir John Cass Foundation
1987
London Arts Board
1986-87
lLEA
1986
Arts Council of Great Britain
1984-85
lslington Council Planning and Architects
1982
WNYE TV, New York
1981
Brooklyn Arts and Cultural Association
Artists' Books
Road, 2008
Inner Cities, 2005
Home Truths, 2003
Germinate, 2002
Coney Island, 2001
Goodrich Alphabet, 2000
Alphabet Land (with children from Wilberforce School), 2001
Tales of New York, 1998
Florida - or You Can't Fight Progress, 1997
Ferragosto, 1996
Il Supermercato,1994
Il Benzinaio, 1992-3
lmages out of Dante, 1988
Selected Public Projects
2010
Nunhead Station, 2010 – Entrance sculpture for station commissioned by London Borough of Southwark
A New Leaf, 2010 – Sculpture commissioned for a new secondary school in Sutton, Surrey
2006
Paterson Park, 2006 – Laser cut stainless steel parasol for park in Bermondsey, London
Friary Estate 2006 – Large vitreous enameled panels of historical photos of the area, laser cut drawings for balustrades
2005 Sculpture for Brimington Park, 2005 – Stainless steel arch for London park in the Old Kent Rd.
2004 A Tree for New Cross, 2004 - Two large tree sculptures, laser cut panels in new fencing, along A2 approach. Regeneration funded by NDC
2003-04 As Far as the Eye Can See, 2003 -4 Sculpture for Gallions Mount School, part of the Creative Partnerships programme of the Arts Council
2003 Family Ties, 2003 Video project with immigrant families. 2002-03 Wandsworth Lifelong Learning Haymerle School
Large scale environmental project for special needs school with Louise Hooper, landscape architect.
Home Truths, 2002 - 3 Residency with Thames Reach Bondway, Charity for Homeless. Produced award winning video (broadcast LWT Nov 2002), sculpture for KPMG, and book about project.
2002 Germinate, Boutcher Primary School. Redeveloped garden area with sculptures, fencing, pond, arch and gate. Book published 2002.
2001-03 Taking Shape, 2001 -3 Goodrich School. Interactive sculpture and environmental improvements for nursery funded by Arts Council of England Lottery Fund
2001 Beethoven Centre, 2001 New gates for community centre in Westminster.
Mozart Estate, 2001 - 2001 Entrance sculptures and feature walls for a new open space on an estate in Westminster.
2000 London Print Studio, Alphabet Project, 2000 – Public art project resulting in published book, interactive mulit-lingual CD rom and large scale outdoor exhibition of related artwork Fife 1998 Book Project, Arts in Fife, Community Art project related to a touring exhibition.
1996 Enamelled book project, 1996, London Fields School
1994-91 Bookmaking workshops with pupils resulted in:
Iron Man, 1994 - 12 ft high, cast aluminium free standing roof top sculpture, London Fields School, Totem, 1991 - 14 ft high, free standing cast aluminium sculpture, sited in Clissold Park, London
1990 Caxton House Community Centre, 1990 – Relief sculptures, 9 reliefs, each about 7 ft high
Teaching Experience
1991 – 2000 Lecturer, Sculpture, City and Islington College
Education
1969-73
University of Chicago
1972-75
Art Students League of New York
1978-81
Pratt Graphic Center
1985-88
Tower Hamlets College Foundry practice, Welding
Downloads
ASPIRE – Employment Academy Commission
Meditations of a Solitary Walker 2011 Press Release
Metacollage 2010 Press Release
Sculpture Trail with American artist Randy Klein 2007 Press Release