Casey R. Klein Garza-Ortiz is an abstract painter living and working in Tulsa, Oklahoma. After spending six years in Los Angeles developing her artistic voice and building a substantial body of work, she recently returned home to reconnect with her roots. Her journey away—and back again—has profoundly shaped how she approaches her practice, personally and creatively.

Klein’s work explores identity through abstraction, shaped by experiences of grief, sexuality, memory, and a sense of otherness. Her technique involves a slow, intuitive process of building and breaking down forms—folding, tearing, and saturating the surface with layered marks that accumulate over time. Each composition unfolds through a dialogue between precision and spontaneity, where decisions are made as much by feeling as by intention. Negative space, repetition, and the physical act of making become essential elements in shaping the final image. The result is a visual language that feels structured and instinctive—fluid, emotional, and often unresolved.

Now rooted again in Tulsa, Klein continues to tell her story, creating work that feels simultaneously cosmic and grounded—anchored in remembrance, transformation, and the ongoing search for belonging.