FIRST CIRCLE GALLERY

Ahead of his exhibition at Eden Court this summer, artist Randy Klinger describes his most recent work.

I grew up in New York City before studying at the Cooper Union, where I graduated with honours. My artwork is represented by Prince Street Gallery in NYC and I have also exhibited in London, Milan, Perugia, The Hague and Kyoto. My past and current mentors include art critic Dore Ashton and art historians Ernst Gombrich, Joseph Koerner and Matteo Ceriana.

I aim to create beauty that overwhelms and uplifts the soul, and to create life-presence through form and pattern, or art as visual poetry. Creativity, expression and beauty became an obsession for me from a very early age.

My recent self-portraits propose the question: how do we accept and love ourselves, as we enter the fourth quarter of our lives? Using two-dimensional pattern, I seek to create ‘touchable’ three-dimensional volumes, bringing the figure’s presence into the viewer's experience.

My Woman series is based upon my love of Vermeer and the influence his work has had on me. I have been studying Vermeer for decades, and I began to wonder: how would one create a Vermeer in our own time? My drawings attempt to answer this: a woman in a domestic setting, drawing attention to light and still-life objects, as a way of finding beauty and meaning in the 21st century.