Painter David Kline featured in SSCC's meet-the-artist event

Painter David Kline featured in SSCC’s meet-the-artist event

 

Throughout the year, the South Campus of Southern State Community college exhibits several works from local artists each month. The current exhibit, which runs throughout April, features Wilmington painter David Kline. The public is invited to a meet-the-artist reception from 6-8 p.m. Thursday, April 22, in the Learning Resources Center at SSCC’s South Campus, 12681 U.S. Route 62, Fincastle. Refreshments will be served.

Kline began drawing and painting seriously at age 16. On the farm in Port William, he enjoyed drawing barns, houses, livestock, streams and virtually any subject that caught his eye. His high school art teacher, James McCarty, was an early influence on his work.

A student of the Dayton Art Institute, Kline was in the juried All Ohio Painting and Sculpture Show his first year there. He later moved to Pennsylvania, always finding new and exciting subject matter. There he met Japanese artist Maya Shock, who was a great influence on his work.

Kline moved back to Ohio and pursued his lifelong hobby of raising homing pigeons. His sketches of the birds landed him a job as an illustrator for Racing Pigeon News, a magazine with worldwide circulation.

In 2008, he was featured with a one-man show at Wilmington College and received honors at Southern State Community College. Last summer, he displayed his art at the Miamisburg Art Gallery and the Dayton Art Institute Museum. For the past three years, his work has received honors at the show held by the Southern Hills Art Council in Jackson.

Kline now lives in Wilmington, still painting the rural scenes that so inspired him in his earlier years.

Admission to Southern State’s Meet the Artist event is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact South Campus LRC Manager Mary Ayres at 1-800-628-7722, ext. 3681, or mayres@sscc.edu.

 

Throughout the year, the South Campus of Southern State Community college exhibits several works from local artists each month. The current exhibit, which runs throughout April, features Wilmington painter David Kline. The public is invited to a meet-the-artist reception from 6-8 p.m. Thursday, April 22, in the Learning Resources Center at SSCC’s South Campus, 12681 U.S. Route 62, Fincastle. Refreshments will be served.

Kline began drawing and painting seriously at age 16. On the farm in Port William, he enjoyed drawing barns, houses, livestock, streams and virtually any subject that caught his eye. His high school art teacher, James McCarty, was an early influence on his work.

A student of the Dayton Art Institute, Kline was in the juried All Ohio Painting and Sculpture Show his first year there. He later moved to Pennsylvania, always finding new and exciting subject matter. There he met Japanese artist Maya Shock, who was a great influence on his work.

Kline moved back to Ohio and pursued his lifelong hobby of raising homing pigeons. His sketches of the birds landed him a job as an illustrator for Racing Pigeon News, a magazine with worldwide circulation.

In 2008, he was featured with a one-man show at Wilmington College and received honors at Southern State Community College. Last summer, he displayed his art at the Miamisburg Art Gallery and the Dayton Art Institute Museum. For the past three years, his work has received honors at the show held by the Southern Hills Art Council in Jackson.

Kline now lives in Wilmington, still painting the rural scenes that so inspired him in his earlier years.

Admission to Southern State’s Meet the Artist event is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact South Campus LRC Manager Mary Ayres at 1-800-628-7722, ext. 3681, or mayres@sscc.edu.