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Artist: Richard Klein
Hummingbird (Editions Variable)

Hummingbird (Editions Variable)

By Richard Klein

Located in Fairfield, CT

Hummingbird series is an Edition Variable. All images differ from the screenprinting hand pulled process by the artist. Upon purchasing variations of the image will be provided to ...

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2010s Contemporary Richard Klein Art

Materials

Paper, Screen

American Elm - Tree Mushrooms Vine Copper Wire Wall Mounted Sculpture, 2024
American Elm - Tree Mushrooms Vine Copper Wire Wall Mounted Sculpture, 2024

American Elm - Tree Mushrooms Vine Copper Wire Wall Mounted Sculpture, 2024

By Richard Klein

Located in Kent, CT

This contemporary wall-mounted sculpture combines copper electroplated american elm tree section (Ulmus americana), poison ivy vines (Toxicodendron radicans), lacquered bracket (Gano...

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2010s Contemporary Richard Klein Art

Materials

Metal

Richard Klein,  Johnson Hs. & Guest Hs. General View (2024), Ed 2/3, replica
Richard Klein,  Johnson Hs. & Guest Hs. General View (2024), Ed 2/3, replica

Richard Klein, Johnson Hs. & Guest Hs. General View (2024), Ed 2/3, replica

By Richard Klein

Located in Darien, CT

In the mid 1990s Richard Klein started working with found glass objects, including bottles, drinking glasses, ashtrays, and eyeglasses. Initially, Klein rejected any object with commercial or advertising content, but in 2015 he became fascinated with the promotional content that was screen printed on ashtrays from the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s. This period was before smoking was looked at as being primarily a negative habit, and iconic American businesses, including Howard Johnson’s, International House of Pancakes (iHop) and Holiday Inn, all produced promotional ashtrays printed with their graphic identity. By the time Klein became interested in these objects, the businesses had either ceased to exist, or had changed their logos, and many of their signature buildings, which where examples of classic, “Pop” roadside architecture, has been torn down or repurposed. The artist wanted to connect the glass objects with the business’s sites that were still recognizable and spoke of their history, so he began researching where original buildings still stood. Klein then embarked on a series of road trips to photograph these sites with the intention of combining the photographs with the promotional glass objects. This led him to as far south as Maryland and as far north as upstate New York from his home in Connecticut. Johnson Hs. & Guest Hs. is an exact replica of an art history slide made in the 1950s picturing Philip Johnson’s Glass House. The slide has been replicated digitally on a much larger scale (23” x 23”) and like the original is made of a cardboard mount that contains a color transparency. The original slide is faded from years of use and most of the color, other than red, has been bleached out. Richard Klein is a Connecticut-based artist, independent curator and writer. As an artist, he has exhibited widely, including the Neuberger Museum of Art at SUNY Purchase; Caren Golden Fine Art, New York; the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI; Hales Gallery, London; Gavlak Gallery, Palm Beach, FL; deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA; James Barron Art, Kent, CT; The Portland Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA), Portland, OR; Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA; Stephan Stoyanov Gallery, NY; Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY; Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, VT; Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY; Exhibit by Alberson Tulsa, OK; Incident Report/Flow Chart Foundation, Hudson, NY; ICEHOUSE Project Space, Sharon, CT; Kenise Barnes Fine Art in Kent, CT and with ODETTA Gallery at the Equity Gallery in New York City.. Reviews of his work have appeared in Two Coats of Paint, Whitehot Magazine, The New York Times, Sculpture Magazine, Art in America, and The New Yorker. In the summer of 2024 he will be the first Artist-In-Residence at Peck Ledge Light...

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2010s Dada Richard Klein Art

Materials

Photographic Film, Film, Archival Paper, Digital, Wood

Richard Klein, Holiday Inn Beirut, 2017, Found and altered objects assemblage
Richard Klein, Holiday Inn Beirut, 2017, Found and altered objects assemblage

Richard Klein, Holiday Inn Beirut, 2017, Found and altered objects assemblage

By Richard Klein

Located in Darien, CT

In the mid 1990s Richard Klein started working with found glass objects, including bottles, drinking glasses, ashtrays, and eyeglasses. Initially, Klein rejected any object with commercial or advertising content, but in 2015 he became fascinated with the promotional content that was screen printed on ashtrays from the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s. This period was before smoking was looked at as being primarily a negative habit, and iconic American businesses, including Howard Johnson’s, International House of Pancakes (iHop) and Holiday Inn, all produced promotional ashtrays printed with their graphic identity. By the time Klein became interested in these objects, the businesses had either ceased to exist, or had changed their logos, and many of their signature buildings, which where examples of classic, “Pop” roadside architecture, has been torn down or repurposed. The artist wanted to connect the glass objects with the business’s sites that were still recognizable and spoke of their history, so he began researching where original buildings still stood. Klein then embarked on a series of road trips to photograph these sites with the intention of combining the photographs with the promotional glass objects. This led him to as far south as Maryland and as far north as upstate New York from his home in Connecticut. In the case of Holiday Inn, it wasn’t their buildings, but their iconic illuminated sign that appeared on ashtrays, so he sought out a standing example of the sign he could photograph. As it turned out all had been removed years before from the hotels' properties and the only working example was indoors at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan. He did, however, find out that there was one still standing, surprisingly, in Beruit, Lebanon. He found an image of it on the web and used it to make Holiday Inn (Beruit). In 1973 Holiday Inn changed their tagline from “The Nations Innkeeper” to “The World’s Innkeeper” as they expanded overseas, including the Mideast. For the hotel chain it was bad timing: the disastrous Lebanese civil war began in 1975. In the war, the different Lebanese militias involved in the conflict, including the Nasserites, Christian Phalangists, and the Lebanese National Movement engaged in what came to be called “The Battle of the Hotels” where they each occupied a major high-rise hotel in central Beruit. The Phalangists commanded the Holiday Inn, which they used to fire with both light arms and heavier weapons at the militias in neighboring hotels. Klein used the photo of the heavily damaged Holiday Inn sign as I thought it spoke in a curious, offhanded way about American cultural imperialism in juxtaposition with an ashtray that proclaimed Holiday Inn to be “The World’s Innkeeper.” In the work Holiday Inn (Nocturne) the artist utilized a found, 35mm slide of a Holiday Inn sign at night at an unknown location as the basis of the photograph in the work. Richard Klein is a Connecticut-based artist, independent curator and writer. As an artist, he has exhibited widely, including the Neuberger Museum of Art at SUNY Purchase; Caren Golden Fine Art, New York; the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI; Hales Gallery, London; Gavlak Gallery, Palm Beach, FL; deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA; James Barron Art, Kent, CT; The Portland Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA), Portland, OR; Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA; Stephan Stoyanov Gallery, NY; Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY; Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, VT; Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY; Exhibit by Alberson Tulsa, OK; Incident Report/Flow Chart Foundation, Hudson, NY; ICEHOUSE Project Space, Sharon, CT; Kenise Barnes Fine Art in Kent, CT and with ODETTA Gallery at the Equity Gallery in New York City.. Reviews of his work have appeared in Two Coats of Paint, Whitehot Magazine, The New York Times, Sculpture Magazine, Art in America, and The New Yorker. In the summer of 2024 he will be the first Artist-In-Residence at Peck Ledge Light...

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2010s Assemblage Richard Klein Art

Materials

Metal

Richard Klein, Holiday Inn Nocturne, 2020, Found and altered objects assemblage
Richard Klein, Holiday Inn Nocturne, 2020, Found and altered objects assemblage

Richard Klein, Holiday Inn Nocturne, 2020, Found and altered objects assemblage

By Richard Klein

Located in Darien, CT

In the mid 1990s Richard Klein started working with found glass objects, including bottles, drinking glasses, ashtrays, and eyeglasses. Initially, Klein rejected any object with commercial or advertising content, but in 2015 he became fascinated with the promotional content that was screen printed on ashtrays from the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s. This period was before smoking was looked at as being primarily a negative habit, and iconic American businesses, including Howard Johnson’s, International House of Pancakes (iHop) and Holiday Inn, all produced promotional ashtrays printed with their graphic identity. By the time Klein became interested in these objects, the businesses had either ceased to exist, or had changed their logos, and many of their signature buildings, which where examples of classic, “Pop” roadside architecture, has been torn down or repurposed. The artist wanted to connect the glass objects with the business’s sites that were still recognizable and spoke of their history, so he began researching where original buildings still stood. Klein then embarked on a series of road trips to photograph these sites with the intention of combining the photographs with the promotional glass objects. This led him to as far south as Maryland and as far north as upstate New York from his home in Connecticut. In the case of Holiday Inn, it wasn’t their buildings, but their iconic illuminated sign that appeared on ashtrays, so he sought out a standing example of the sign he could photograph. As it turned out all had been removed years before from the hotels' properties and the only working example was indoors at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan. He did, however, find out that there was one still standing, surprisingly, in Beruit, Lebanon. He found an image of it on the web and used it to make Holiday Inn (Beruit). In 1973 Holiday Inn changed their tagline from “The Nations Innkeeper” to “The World’s Innkeeper” as they expanded overseas, including the Mideast. For the hotel chain it was bad timing: the disastrous Lebanese civil war began in 1975. In the war, the different Lebanese militias involved in the conflict, including the Nasserites, Christian Phalangists, and the Lebanese National Movement engaged in what came to be called “The Battle of the Hotels” where they each occupied a major high-rise hotel in central Beruit. The Phalangists commanded the Holiday Inn, which they used to fire with both light arms and heavier weapons at the militias in neighboring hotels. Klein used the photo of the heavily damaged Holiday Inn sign as I thought it spoke in a curious, offhanded way about American cultural imperialism in juxtaposition with an ashtray that proclaimed Holiday Inn to be “The World’s Innkeeper.” In the work Holiday Inn (Nocturne) the artist utilized a found, 35mm slide of a Holiday Inn sign at night at an unknown location as the basis of the photograph in the work. Richard Klein is a Connecticut-based artist, independent curator and writer. As an artist, he has exhibited widely, including the Neuberger Museum of Art at SUNY Purchase; Caren Golden Fine Art, New York; the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI; Hales Gallery, London; Gavlak Gallery, Palm Beach, FL; deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA; James Barron Art, Kent, CT; The Portland Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA), Portland, OR; Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA; Stephan Stoyanov Gallery, NY; Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY; Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, VT; Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY; Exhibit by Alberson Tulsa, OK; Incident Report/Flow Chart Foundation, Hudson, NY; ICEHOUSE Project Space, Sharon, CT; Kenise Barnes Fine Art in Kent, CT and with ODETTA Gallery at the Equity Gallery in New York City.. Reviews of his work have appeared in Two Coats of Paint, Whitehot Magazine, The New York Times, Sculpture Magazine, Art in America, and The New Yorker. In the summer of 2024 he will be the first Artist-In-Residence at Peck Ledge Light...

Category

2010s Assemblage Richard Klein Art

Materials

Metal

Richard Klein, McDonalds (El Nino), 2024, Found and altered objects assemblage
Richard Klein, McDonalds (El Nino), 2024, Found and altered objects assemblage

Richard Klein, McDonalds (El Nino), 2024, Found and altered objects assemblage

By Richard Klein

Located in Darien, CT

In the mid 1990s Richard Klein started working with found glass objects, including bottles, drinking glasses, ashtrays, and eyeglasses. Initially, Klein rejected any object with commercial or advertising content, but in 2015 he became fascinated with the promotional content that was screen printed on ashtrays from the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s. This period was before smoking was looked at as being primarily a negative habit, and iconic American businesses, including Howard Johnson’s, International House of Pancakes (iHop) and Holiday Inn, all produced promotional ashtrays printed with their graphic identity. By the time Klein became interested in these objects, the businesses had either ceased to exist, or had changed their logos, and many of their signature buildings, which where examples of classic, “Pop” roadside architecture, has been torn down or repurposed. The artist wanted to connect the glass objects with the business’s sites that were still recognizable and spoke of their history, so he began researching where original buildings still stood. Klein then embarked on a series of road trips to photograph these sites with the intention of combining the photographs with the promotional glass objects. This led him to as far south as Maryland and as far north as upstate New York from his home in Connecticut. In the case of Holiday Inn, it wasn’t their buildings, but their iconic illuminated sign that appeared on ashtrays, so he sought out a standing example of the sign he could photograph. As it turned out all had been removed years before from the hotels' properties and the only working example was indoors at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan. He did, however, find out that there was one still standing, surprisingly, in Beruit, Lebanon. He found an image of it on the web and used it to make Holiday Inn (Beruit). In 1973 Holiday Inn changed their tagline from “The Nations Innkeeper” to “The World’s Innkeeper” as they expanded overseas, including the Mideast. For the hotel chain it was bad timing: the disastrous Lebanese civil war began in 1975. In the war, the different Lebanese militias involved in the conflict, including the Nasserites, Christian Phalangists, and the Lebanese National Movement engaged in what came to be called “The Battle of the Hotels” where they each occupied a major high-rise hotel in central Beruit. The Phalangists commanded the Holiday Inn, which they used to fire with both light arms and heavier weapons at the militias in neighboring hotels. Klein used the photo of the heavily damaged Holiday Inn sign as I thought it spoke in a curious, offhanded way about American cultural imperialism in juxtaposition with an ashtray that proclaimed Holiday Inn to be “The World’s Innkeeper.” In the work Holiday Inn (Nocturne) the artist utilized a found, 35mm slide of a Holiday Inn sign at night at an unknown location as the basis of the photograph in the work. Richard Klein is a Connecticut-based artist, independent curator and writer. As an artist, he has exhibited widely, including the Neuberger Museum of Art at SUNY Purchase; Caren Golden Fine Art, New York; the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI; Hales Gallery, London; Gavlak Gallery, Palm Beach, FL; deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA; James Barron Art, Kent, CT; The Portland Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA), Portland, OR; Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA; Stephan Stoyanov Gallery, NY; Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY; Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, VT; Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY; Exhibit by Alberson Tulsa, OK; Incident Report/Flow Chart Foundation, Hudson, NY; ICEHOUSE Project Space, Sharon, CT; Kenise Barnes Fine Art in Kent, CT and with ODETTA Gallery at the Equity Gallery in New York City.. Reviews of his work have appeared in Two Coats of Paint, Whitehot Magazine, The New York Times, Sculpture Magazine, Art in America, and The New Yorker. In the summer of 2024 he will be the first Artist-In-Residence at Peck Ledge Light...

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2010s Assemblage Richard Klein Art

Materials

Metal

Richard Klein, iHop II, 2018, Found and altered objects assemblage
Richard Klein, iHop II, 2018, Found and altered objects assemblage

Richard Klein, iHop II, 2018, Found and altered objects assemblage

By Richard Klein

Located in Darien, CT

In the mid 1990s Richard Klein started working with found glass objects, including bottles, drinking glasses, ashtrays, and eyeglasses. Initially, Klein rejected any object with commercial or advertising content, but in 2015 he became fascinated with the promotional content that was screen printed on ashtrays from the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s. This period was before smoking was looked at as being primarily a negative habit, and iconic American businesses, including Howard Johnson’s, International House of Pancakes (iHop) and Holiday Inn, all produced promotional ashtrays printed with their graphic identity. By the time Klein became interested in these objects, the businesses had either ceased to exist, or had changed their logos, and many of their signature buildings, which where examples of classic, “Pop” roadside architecture, has been torn down or repurposed. The artist wanted to connect the glass objects with the business’s sites that were still recognizable and spoke of their history, so he began researching where original buildings still stood. Klein then embarked on a series of road trips to photograph these sites with the intention of combining the photographs with the promotional glass objects. This led him to as far south as Maryland and as far north as upstate New York from his home in Connecticut. In the case of Holiday Inn, it wasn’t their buildings, but their iconic illuminated sign that appeared on ashtrays, so he sought out a standing example of the sign he could photograph. As it turned out all had been removed years before from the hotels' properties and the only working example was indoors at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan. He did, however, find out that there was one still standing, surprisingly, in Beruit, Lebanon. He found an image of it on the web and used it to make Holiday Inn (Beruit). In 1973 Holiday Inn changed their tagline from “The Nations Innkeeper” to “The World’s Innkeeper” as they expanded overseas, including the Mideast. For the hotel chain it was bad timing: the disastrous Lebanese civil war began in 1975. In the war, the different Lebanese militias involved in the conflict, including the Nasserites, Christian Phalangists, and the Lebanese National Movement engaged in what came to be called “The Battle of the Hotels” where they each occupied a major high-rise hotel in central Beruit. The Phalangists commanded the Holiday Inn, which they used to fire with both light arms and heavier weapons at the militias in neighboring hotels. Klein used the photo of the heavily damaged Holiday Inn sign as I thought it spoke in a curious, offhanded way about American cultural imperialism in juxtaposition with an ashtray that proclaimed Holiday Inn to be “The World’s Innkeeper.” In the work Holiday Inn (Nocturne) the artist utilized a found, 35mm slide of a Holiday Inn sign at night at an unknown location as the basis of the photograph in the work. Richard Klein is a Connecticut-based artist, independent curator and writer. As an artist, he has exhibited widely, including the Neuberger Museum of Art at SUNY Purchase; Caren Golden Fine Art, New York; the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI; Hales Gallery, London; Gavlak Gallery, Palm Beach, FL; deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA; James Barron Art, Kent, CT; The Portland Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA), Portland, OR; Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA; Stephan Stoyanov Gallery, NY; Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY; Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, VT; Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY; Exhibit by Alberson Tulsa, OK; Incident Report/Flow Chart Foundation, Hudson, NY; ICEHOUSE Project Space, Sharon, CT; Kenise Barnes Fine Art in Kent, CT and with ODETTA Gallery at the Equity Gallery in New York City.. Reviews of his work have appeared in Two Coats of Paint, Whitehot Magazine, The New York Times, Sculpture Magazine, Art in America, and The New Yorker. In the summer of 2024 he will be the first Artist-In-Residence at Peck Ledge Light...

Category

2010s Assemblage Richard Klein Art

Materials

Metal

Richard Klein, American Glassware, 2010-2024, Found and altered objects
Richard Klein, American Glassware, 2010-2024, Found and altered objects

Richard Klein, American Glassware, 2010-2024, Found and altered objects

By Richard Klein

Located in Darien, CT

In the mid 1990s Richard Klein started working with found glass objects, including bottles, drinking glasses, ashtrays, and eyeglasses. Initially, Klein rejected any object with commercial or advertising content, but in 2015 he became fascinated with the promotional content that was screen printed on ashtrays from the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s. This period was before smoking was looked at as being primarily a negative habit, and iconic American businesses, including Howard Johnson’s, International House of Pancakes (iHop) and Holiday Inn, all produced promotional ashtrays printed with their graphic identity. By the time Klein became interested in these objects, the businesses had either ceased to exist, or had changed their logos, and many of their signature buildings, which where examples of classic, “Pop” roadside architecture, has been torn down or repurposed. The artist wanted to connect the glass objects with the business’s sites that were still recognizable and spoke of their history, so he began researching where original buildings still stood. Klein then embarked on a series of road trips to photograph these sites with the intention of combining the photographs with the promotional glass objects. This led him to as far south as Maryland and as far north as upstate New York from his home in Connecticut. American Glassware (2010-present) which is presented in a small, wall-mounted vitrine. American Glassware is composed of three glass objects: a “souvenir” Walden Pond ashtray made by me as a multiple; a real souvenir ashtray from the 1964-65 New York World’s Fair; and an authentic “Happy Face” drinking glass from the same era. They are all nestled in crumpled, vintage newspaper from 1967, and are presented together in a dilapidated cardboard box, as if they have been found in someone’s attic or basement. Once again, in a similar manner to the Glass House Ashtray, versions of his Walden Pond ashtray (Walden Pond Souvenir) have been injected into the collectable stream of tag sales and flea markets, creating a souvenir that never existed. The ashtray is screenprinted with an image of Thoreau’s cabin on Walden Pond as pictured on the title page of his book Walden, or Life in the Woods (1854). (The original illustration was created by Thoreau’s sister, Sophia.) Walden Pond Souvenir was originally produced for the 2010 exhibition Renovating Walden at the Tufts University Art Gallery in Medford, MA. Richard Klein is a Connecticut-based artist, independent curator and writer. As an artist, he has exhibited widely, including the Neuberger Museum of Art at SUNY Purchase; Caren Golden Fine Art, New York; the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI; Hales Gallery, London; Gavlak Gallery, Palm Beach, FL; deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA; James Barron Art, Kent, CT; The Portland Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA), Portland, OR; Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA; Stephan Stoyanov Gallery, NY; Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY; Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, VT; Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY; Exhibit by Alberson Tulsa, OK; Incident Report/Flow Chart Foundation, Hudson, NY; ICEHOUSE Project Space, Sharon, CT; Kenise Barnes Fine Art in Kent, CT and with ODETTA Gallery at the Equity Gallery in New York City.. Reviews of his work have appeared in Two Coats of Paint, Whitehot Magazine, The New York Times, Sculpture Magazine, Art in America, and The New Yorker. In the summer of 2024 he will be the first Artist-In-Residence at Peck Ledge Light...

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2010s Assemblage Richard Klein Art

Materials

Metal

Saint-Gobain VW - Mirrored Glass Wall Sculpture White Gold Window Copper Wing
Saint-Gobain VW - Mirrored Glass Wall Sculpture White Gold Window Copper Wing

Saint-Gobain VW - Mirrored Glass Wall Sculpture White Gold Window Copper Wing

By Richard Klein

Located in Kent, CT

In this wall-mounted sculpture, a copper and nickel-plated crow's wing extends out from a shaped piece of glass, a window from a 1990 Volkswagen Passat mirrored with white gold leaf....

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2010s Contemporary Richard Klein Art

Materials

Metal, Gold Leaf

Misregistered Torso

Misregistered Torso

By Richard Klein

Located in Fairfield, CT

About the Artist: Richard Klein is a Connecticut-based artist, curator and writer. As an artist, he has exhibited widely, including the Neuberger Museum of Art at SUNY Purchase; Ca...

Category

2010s Contemporary Richard Klein Art

Materials

Paper, Screen

Richard Klein, Expo 67, 2017, Found and altered objects assemblage
Richard Klein, Expo 67, 2017, Found and altered objects assemblage

Richard Klein, Expo 67, 2017, Found and altered objects assemblage

By Richard Klein

Located in Darien, CT

In the mid 1990s Richard Klein started working with found glass objects, including bottles, drinking glasses, ashtrays, and eyeglasses. Initially, Klein rejected any object with commercial or advertising content, but in 2015 he became fascinated with the promotional content that was screen printed on ashtrays from the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s. This period was before smoking was looked at as being primarily a negative habit, and iconic American businesses, including Howard Johnson’s, International House of Pancakes (iHop) and Holiday Inn, all produced promotional ashtrays printed with their graphic identity. By the time Klein became interested in these objects, the businesses had either ceased to exist, or had changed their logos, and many of their signature buildings, which where examples of classic, “Pop” roadside architecture, has been torn down or repurposed. The artist wanted to connect the glass objects with the business’s sites that were still recognizable and spoke of their history, so he began researching where original buildings still stood. Klein then embarked on a series of road trips to photograph these sites with the intention of combining the photographs with the promotional glass objects. This led him to as far south as Maryland and as far north as upstate New York from his home in Connecticut. In the case of Holiday Inn, it wasn’t their buildings, but their iconic illuminated sign that appeared on ashtrays, so he sought out a standing example of the sign he could photograph. As it turned out all had been removed years before from the hotels' properties and the only working example was indoors at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan. He did, however, find out that there was one still standing, surprisingly, in Beruit, Lebanon. He found an image of it on the web and used it to make Holiday Inn (Beruit). In 1973 Holiday Inn changed their tagline from “The Nations Innkeeper” to “The World’s Innkeeper” as they expanded overseas, including the Mideast. For the hotel chain it was bad timing: the disastrous Lebanese civil war began in 1975. In the war, the different Lebanese militias involved in the conflict, including the Nasserites, Christian Phalangists, and the Lebanese National Movement engaged in what came to be called “The Battle of the Hotels” where they each occupied a major high-rise hotel in central Beruit. The Phalangists commanded the Holiday Inn, which they used to fire with both light arms and heavier weapons at the militias in neighboring hotels. Klein used the photo of the heavily damaged Holiday Inn sign as I thought it spoke in a curious, offhanded way about American cultural imperialism in juxtaposition with an ashtray that proclaimed Holiday Inn to be “The World’s Innkeeper.” In the work Holiday Inn (Nocturne) the artist utilized a found, 35mm slide of a Holiday Inn sign at night at an unknown location as the basis of the photograph in the work. Richard Klein is a Connecticut-based artist, independent curator and writer. As an artist, he has exhibited widely, including the Neuberger Museum of Art at SUNY Purchase; Caren Golden Fine Art, New York; the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI; Hales Gallery, London; Gavlak Gallery, Palm Beach, FL; deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA; James Barron Art, Kent, CT; The Portland Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA), Portland, OR; Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA; Stephan Stoyanov Gallery, NY; Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY; Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, VT; Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY; Exhibit by Alberson Tulsa, OK; Incident Report/Flow Chart Foundation, Hudson, NY; ICEHOUSE Project Space, Sharon, CT; Kenise Barnes Fine Art in Kent, CT and with ODETTA Gallery at the Equity Gallery in New York City.. Reviews of his work have appeared in Two Coats of Paint, Whitehot Magazine, The New York Times, Sculpture Magazine, Art in America, and The New Yorker. In the summer of 2024 he will be the first Artist-In-Residence at Peck Ledge Light...

Category

2010s Assemblage Richard Klein Art

Materials

Metal

Flowers

Flowers

By Richard Klein

Located in Fairfield, CT

About the Artist: Richard Klein is a Connecticut-based artist, curator and writer. As an artist, he has exhibited widely, including the Neuberger Museum of Art at SUNY Purchase; Ca...

Category

2010s Contemporary Richard Klein Art

Materials

Paper, Screen

Covid

Richard KleinCovid, 2025

$1,350Sale Price|25% Off

Covid

By Richard Klein

Located in Fairfield, CT

About the Artist: Richard Klein is a Connecticut-based artist, curator and writer. As an artist, he has exhibited widely, including the Neuberger Museum of Art at SUNY Purchase; Ca...

Category

2010s Contemporary Richard Klein Art

Materials

Paper, Screen

Misregistered Torso

Misregistered Torso

By Richard Klein

Located in Fairfield, CT

About the Artist: Richard Klein is a Connecticut-based artist, curator and writer. As an artist, he has exhibited widely, including the Neuberger Museum of Art at SUNY Purchase; Ca...

Category

2010s Contemporary Richard Klein Art

Materials

Paper, Screen

Flowers

Flowers

By Richard Klein

Located in Fairfield, CT

About the Artist: Richard Klein is a Connecticut-based artist, curator and writer. As an artist, he has exhibited widely, including the Neuberger Museum of Art at SUNY Purchase; Ca...

Category

2010s Contemporary Richard Klein Art

Materials

Paper, Screen

Flowers

Richard KleinFlowers, 2025

$1,440Sale Price|20% Off

Flowers

By Richard Klein

Located in Fairfield, CT

About the Artist: Richard Klein is a Connecticut-based artist, curator and writer. As an artist, he has exhibited widely, including the Neuberger Museum of Art at SUNY Purchase; Ca...

Category

2010s Contemporary Richard Klein Art

Materials

Paper, Screen

Flowers

Flowers

By Richard Klein

Located in Fairfield, CT

About the Artist: Richard Klein is a Connecticut-based artist, curator and writer. As an artist, he has exhibited widely, including the Neuberger Museum of Art at SUNY Purchase; Ca...

Category

2010s Contemporary Richard Klein Art

Materials

Paper, Screen

Flowers

Flowers

By Richard Klein

Located in Fairfield, CT

About the Artist: Richard Klein is a Connecticut-based artist, curator and writer. As an artist, he has exhibited widely, including the Neuberger Museum of Art at SUNY Purchase; Ca...

Category

2010s Contemporary Richard Klein Art

Materials

Paper, Screen

Misregistered Torso

Misregistered Torso

By Richard Klein

Located in Fairfield, CT

About the Artist: Richard Klein is a Connecticut-based artist, curator and writer. As an artist, he has exhibited widely, including the Neuberger Museum of Art at SUNY Purchase; Ca...

Category

2010s Contemporary Richard Klein Art

Materials

Paper, Screen

Eyelashes

Eyelashes

By Richard Klein

Located in Fairfield, CT

About the Artist: Richard Klein is a Connecticut-based artist, curator and writer. As an artist, he has exhibited widely, including the Neuberger Museum of Art at SUNY Purchase; Ca...

Category

2010s Contemporary Richard Klein Art

Materials

Paper, Screen

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As an artist, I am a storyteller wielding visual art as my medium. My creative journey is fueled by a relentless thirst for knowledge acquired through both hands-on experience and ke...

Category

2010s Contemporary Richard Klein Art

Materials

Copper, Wire

Wine

David ShrigleyWine, 2021

$8,893

H 29.93 in W 22.05 in

Wine

By David Shrigley

Located in Manchester, GB

David Shrigley, Wine, 2021 Hand-signed and dated on the reverse Edition 29 of 125 75 x 56 cm Screenprint in colours Private Collection UK

Category

2010s Contemporary Richard Klein Art

Materials

Screen

The Kiss - Gustav Klimt's Dog, original, contemporary, art print
The Kiss - Gustav Klimt's Dog, original, contemporary, art print

The Kiss - Gustav Klimt's Dog, original, contemporary, art print

By Mychael Barratt

Located in Deddington, GB

Screenprint and gold leaf on paper. Signed and titled in pencil. Numbered from the edition of 100. Image size: 220 x 220mm Paper size: 380 x 400mm Gold Leaf on Paper Edition of...

Category

2010s Contemporary Richard Klein Art

Materials

Gold Leaf

Sujoon Sky - Blue Abstract Sculptural Original Three-Dimensional Wall Art
Sujoon Sky - Blue Abstract Sculptural Original Three-Dimensional Wall Art

Sujoon Sky - Blue Abstract Sculptural Original Three-Dimensional Wall Art

By Atticus Adams

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Atticus Adams' organically composed modern metal sculptures embody the transformative power of art, illustrating the creation of beauty, meaning, and emotional impact from industrial...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Richard Klein Art

Materials

Metal, Wire

Ai Weiwei - Cats (Black)

Ai WeiweiAi Weiwei - Cats (Black), 2022

$3,420

H 12.6 in W 13.39 in D 0.79 in

Ai Weiwei - Cats (Black)

By Ai Weiwei

Located in London, GB

Screen print on Saunders Waterford 300gsm paper Hand-signed, dated, and numbered by the artist 28 × 32.8 cm Edition of 150 Framed The print was editioned by master printer, Kip Gres...

Category

2010s Contemporary Richard Klein Art

Materials

Screen

Sujoon Vogue - Southwest Inspired Sculptural Original Three-Dimensional Wall Art
Sujoon Vogue - Southwest Inspired Sculptural Original Three-Dimensional Wall Art

Sujoon Vogue - Southwest Inspired Sculptural Original Three-Dimensional Wall Art

By Atticus Adams

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Atticus Adams' organically composed modern metal sculptures embody the transformative power of art, illustrating the creation of beauty, meaning, and emotional impact from industrial...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Richard Klein Art

Materials

Metal, Wire

Hockney's Dog - After the Splash, original, contemporary, art print
Hockney's Dog - After the Splash, original, contemporary, art print

Hockney's Dog - After the Splash, original, contemporary, art print

By Mychael Barratt

Located in Deddington, GB

Screenprint on paper Signed and titled in pencil Numbered from the edition of 75 Image size: 505 x 505 mm Paper size: 665 x 685 mm Silkscreen print on Paper Edition of 100 50...

Category

2010s Contemporary Richard Klein Art

Materials

Paper, Screen

Live Each Day As If It Were Your First
Live Each Day As If It Were Your First

Live Each Day As If It Were Your First

By David Shrigley

Located in Manchester, GB

David Shrigley, I Can Sing For You, 2022 Hand-signed and dated on the reverse Edition 76 of 125 75 x 56 cm Screenprint in colours Private Collection UK

Category

2010s Contemporary Richard Klein Art

Materials

Screen

Soul Gate Eldorado - contemporary, ribbon, 24K gold, steel, wall sculpture
Soul Gate Eldorado - contemporary, ribbon, 24K gold, steel, wall sculpture

Soul Gate Eldorado - contemporary, ribbon, 24K gold, steel, wall sculpture

By Stefan Duerst

Located in Bloomfield, ON

This elegant and ethereal contemporary wall sculpture, by Stefen Duerst, is hot-formed steel, powder-coated yellow, and finished with a double layer of German 24-karat gold leaf. Ava...

Category

2010s Contemporary Richard Klein Art

Materials

Steel, Gold Leaf

Lobster, Pop Art Screenprint by Hunt Slonem

Lobster, Pop Art Screenprint by Hunt Slonem

By Hunt Slonem

Located in Long Island City, NY

Artist: Hunt Slonem Title: Lobster Year: 1980 Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 250; AP 30 Image: 19 x 19 inches Paper Size: 22 x 30 inches

Category

1980s Contemporary Richard Klein Art

Materials

Screen

Lucky Restaurant Sculpture: Contemporary Paper and Metal, 10\"x8\"
Lucky Restaurant Sculpture: Contemporary Paper and Metal, 10\"x8\"

Lucky Restaurant Sculpture: Contemporary Paper and Metal, 10\"x8\"

By Drew Leshko

Located in Philadelphia, PA

This piece titled "Lucky Restaurant" is original artwork made from paper, inkjet print, enamel, wire, chain, aluminum tube, and pastel by Drew Leshko. This piece measures 10"h x 0.75...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Richard Klein Art

Materials

Metal, Wire

"Hotel with Arrow" Miniature Urban Superstructure Hotel Sign by Drew Leshko
"Hotel with Arrow" Miniature Urban Superstructure Hotel Sign by Drew Leshko

"Hotel with Arrow" Miniature Urban Superstructure Hotel Sign by Drew Leshko

By Drew Leshko

Located in Philadelphia, PA

This piece titled "Hotel with Arrow" is original artwork made from paper, basswood, acrylic, anamel, watercolor, pastel by Drew Leshko. This piece measures approx. 12”h x 18”w x 6”d....

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Richard Klein Art

Materials

Metal, Enamel, Wire

Previously Available Items
Vanishing Point - Mirrored Glass Wall Sculpture Copper Plated Mushroom, 2023
Vanishing Point - Mirrored Glass Wall Sculpture Copper Plated Mushroom, 2023

Vanishing Point - Mirrored Glass Wall Sculpture Copper Plated Mushroom, 2023

By Richard Klein

Located in Kent, CT

Contemporary, reflective wall-mounted sculpture with tempered plate glass mirrored with white gold leaf and copper electroplated Hemlock Varnish Shelf (Ganoderma tsugae) fungi on alu...

Category

2010s Contemporary Richard Klein Art

Materials

Metal, Gold Leaf

Entangled Life - Copper Wall Sculpture Power Lines Bird's Nest, 2025
Entangled Life - Copper Wall Sculpture Power Lines Bird's Nest, 2025

Entangled Life - Copper Wall Sculpture Power Lines Bird's Nest, 2025

By Richard Klein

Located in Kent, CT

This wall-mounted sculpture combines copper electroplated direct bronze casting of an American Robin’s (Turdus migratorius) nest, copperplate photogravure on an aluminum support. The...

Category

2010s Contemporary Richard Klein Art

Materials

Metal

Richard Klein art for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Richard Klein art available for sale on 1stDibs. You can also browse by medium to find art by Richard Klein in glass, metal, found objects and more. Much of the original work by this artist or collective was created during the 21st century and contemporary and is mostly associated with the contemporary style. Not every interior allows for large Richard Klein art, so small editions measuring 8 inches across are available. Richard Klein art prices can differ depending upon medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $3,000 and tops out at $6,750, while the average work can sell for $5,100.