Kim Klabe is a contemporary mixed-media artist whose work explores the figures, personalities and narratives hidden within abstraction.

Working with rice paper, acrylic, charcoal, watercolor, pastel and cut paper/photographs, Klabe begins intuitively, building spontaneous fields of color, texture and marks. Figures gradually reveal themselves within this visual complexity and are brought forward while retaining the energy of the abstraction from which they emerged.

Her work moves between the personal and universal, exploring identity, social experience, women, literature and the humor and contradictions of contemporary life.

Klabe was named a 2021 Established Professional Fellow in Works on Paper by the Delaware Division of the Arts. Her work has appeared in solo and juried exhibitions throughout the United States..

She lives and works in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.