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Statement

One thing that has always tied David Stewart Klein’s work together has been the need to express something strong, volatile, fragile, fleeting. To him that can be the intimacy and vulnerability of a portrait, an argument of a couple, the silence between figures, the strength of a individual standing or fluidly in motion.  Klein takes his subjects and amplifies the compositional space with what is being represented, a fragment of his mind and the people that inhabit the world around him. Whether it is in oil, or acrylic paint, sculpture, or drawings done in charcoal, ink or pencil, his works read as intense, thought provoking and beautiful. Klein will use the color pallets necessary to show the mood he seeks to convey, whether in varying vivid colors or in a more limited dynamic range. He aims to capture the essence of his subjects and intends to show his audience his belief that no matter their background, the one thing present in us all is our souls. We all have something to say underneath our silence. 

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Exhibition list


Solo exhibitions:


2020:

Welcome to the New World: As Its Always Been
Tag Gallery Los Angeles, CA - July/Aug 2020


2019:


Reflections 

Blue 7 Gallery Santa Monica, CA - March/April 2019



Group exhibitions:


2020:

Tag Gallery: Abstract . Los Angeles, CA - Sep 2020


Gallery 825: Non sequitur(Online) .  Los Angeles, CA - August/Sep  2020 


Gallery 825: Exalted One (Online) .  Los Angeles, CA - August 2020

Tag Gallery: Group Show  . Los Angeles, CA- August 2020

Tag Gallery: Virtually Unlimited . Los Angeles, CA - July 2020

Brittany Davis Gallery: Art is Life (online exhibition) - July 2020

2019:


Blue 7 Gallery: Transportation  Santa Monica, CA - April/May 2019


Blue 7 Gallery: Magic in Nature  Santa Monica, CA - June/July 2019


2018:


Blue 7 Gallery: Ordinary to Extraordinary  Santa Monica, CA - March/April 2018


Blue 7 Gallery: Mysterious World  Santa Monica, CA - May/June 2018


Blue 7 Gallery: Music in Art  Santa Monica, CA - Aug/Sep 2018


Blue 7 Gallery: It’s a Celebration Santa Monica, CA - Dec 2018


2017:


Blue 7 Gallery: Light and Shadow Santa Monica, CA - Dec 2017


2015:


Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, Ca - Senior Exhibition - May 2015 


Beecaso: Save the Bees exhibition Pasedena, CA - Sep 2015 


2014:


Warehouse of Contemporary Art, Anaheim, CA – March 2014


The MUZEO Museum, Andrew Carnegie Gallery, Anaheim, CA – March 2014


Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, Ca - Enneagram - Fall 2014 


2013:


Gallery Sev Ven, Huntington Beach. CA - Jan 2013


Gallery Sev Ven, Huntington Beach. CA - Feb 2013


Warehouse of Contemporary Art, Anaheim, CA - March 2013


Gallery Sev Ven, Huntington Beach. CA - March 2013


Gallery Sev Ven, Huntington Beach. CA - April 2013


Gallery Sev Ven: One year Anniversary show, Huntington Beach. CA - May 2013


Otis College of Art and Design: Seventy-Four(74) - May 2013 


KCRW's Edward Goldman mention on radio: Otis College of Art and Design: Seventy-Four(74) - May 2013 


Warehouse of Contemporary Art, Anaheim, CA - June 2013


Warehouse of Contemporary Art, Anaheim, CA – September 2013


Warehouse of Contemporary Art: 10 Year Anniversary show, Anaheim, CA – Dec 2013


2012: 


DADA: Entartete Kunst III, Downtown Los Angeles, CA Feb 2012


2nd st. Cigar Lounge and Gallery , CA (Downtown Los Angeles Art Walk) -Feb 2012 - Aug 2014


Gallery Sev Ven, Huntington Beach, CA (Gallery opening gala) 


Rochester Art House, Westwood, CA 


DADA: Degenerate Prom, Downtown Los Angeles, CA - May 2012


The Think Tank Gallery, L’art Pour L’art: The Painted Dot, Los Angeles, CA - June 2012 


Rochester Art House, Figure Model Appreciation Gala, Westwood, CA - June 2012 


Liquid City Impulse: Ghouls Gone Wild, Downtown Los Angeles, CA - June 2012


Gallery Sev Ven, Huntington Beach, CA - June 2012


DADA: Entartete Kunst 3.5, The Rochester Art House, Westwood, CA - June 2012


Gallery Sev Ven, Huntington Beach, CA - July 2012


Rochester Art House: Abstract Art Showcase, Westwood, CA - August 2012 


the Hive Gallery: Masters of Body Paint, Los Angeles, CA - August 2012 


RawArtists: Radiance, The Key Club, Hollywood, CA -  August 2012


Rochester Art House, Humans Make Art: Leo group show, Westwood, CA - August 2012 


Gallery Sev Ven, Huntington Beach, CA - August 2012


the Hive Gallery, CA (Downtown Los Angeles Art Walk) - August 2012


The Hive Gallery, Los Angeles, CA - September 2012


The Hive Gallery: The Rise of Cthulu, Los Angeles, CA - October 2012


Otis College of art and Design: Open-house for Sculpture


DADA: Entartete Kunst 4, Downtown Los Angeles, CA - December 2012


Warehouse of Contemporary Art, Anaheim, CA - December 2012


Gallery Sev Ven: Twisted Christmas, Huntington Beach, CA - December 2012


2011:


Barrette Art Gallery: The Food Show, Santa Monica, CA - May 2011



Other:


Member Los Angeles Art Association(LAAA)

Radio Sancho (Guest speaker on Internet Radio) - Apr 2012


ARTslanT: Winner in the 3rd 2012 Showcase competition - May 2012


Mentioned on:

Muzeo.org 

OCWeekly.com

LAartparty.com

WOCA.com

Artillerymag


Taggallery.net
LAAA.org

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Life

David Stewart Klein was born in raised in Queens, New York to two musicians by profession and is a 4th generation visual artist on his mothers side.  Klein used most of his childhood and teenage years teaching himself the styles he loved and expressing himself through drawing. His first education was at age 8 at the Roslyn School of Fine Art in New York where he developed his interests and skills in painting, charcoal, and pastel. During this time he was influenced by Norman Rockwell and close friend, Ronald Workman, a New York based artist. Prior to his next educational experience, He became enamored by certain comic book artists such as Todd McFarlane, Greg Capullo, Michael Turner, cartoonist Jim Davis and caricaturist Al Hirschfeld, and he soon began to create his own comics and characters. Not long after this he found his first mentor, comic book artist Christian Torres who inspired him to go forward with his dreams for several years. During high school, Klein and his family left New York and moved permanently to Los Angeles, CA. During his 3rd year in high school, Klein was selected to attend a course at the Young Artist Studio at Otis College of Art and Design, taught by influential Franklyn Liegel. After high school, Klein attended Santa Monica College and found his love of Fine Art and eventually decided to go to Otis to finish his BFA Degree. During this time he fell in love with the works of Van Gogh, Salvador Dali, Zdzislaw Beksiński, Gustave Dore, comic book artists Möebius and Frank Miller, and developed a love for Japanese ink drawing. Before beginning undergrad studies at Otis, Klein became adamant about starting his exhibiting career and decided to venture into the Los Angeles scene without any contacts at all. From meeting people at openings he began to plant seeds and stir up noise about his unseen talent and was soon offered a spot in a largely attended show in Downtown Los Angeles by a group called DADA. This immediately caught the attention of several art curators and gallery owners and in the following months accumulated exhibitions in areas all over Los Angeles and the neighboring Orange County. By the end of the year, 2012, Klein had participated in nearly 40 group exhibitions, and by the time he earned his BFA from Otis, he had done over 50. In the year 2018, Klein held his first solo exhibition in Santa Monica, California at the Blue 7 Gallery featuring 60 pieces of art, mostly paintings. 

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