![Ray Kleinlein - Black and Blue Books [2015]](http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1623/24706290693_1fdb0c6347_o.png)
Ray Kleinlein was born in Columbus, Ohio in 1969. He studied at the Ohio State University and the Columbus College of Art and Design, and earned his master’s degree in painting and art history at Ohio University. He had his first one man show in 1997 while still in graduate school. Since then he’s exhibited extensively in one person and group shows in galleries and museums in New York, Nashville, Charlotte, Columbus, and other cities throughout the United States. His work has also been shown at prominent at art fairs such as Art Chicago and Art Miami.
[Paul Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco & New York - Oil on canvas, 61 × 61 cm]