Color
Neutrals are warm — paper, not screen white. Ultramarine is the only interactive color. The painting palette is reserved for status and accents.
Neutrals
Accent
From the paintings
Typography
Fraunces for display — a serif with character, soft and slightly odd, like the fish. Inter for everything you read or click. Sizes are fluid.
Fish, fruit & hands
Selected works 2023–2025
Still Life with Hands
Exhibitions
The fish is never the point. The hands are.
Klevenski paints large: every canvas is 48 by 60 inches, big enough that the viewer stands inside the water rather than in front of it.
Born in Florida, based in Tampa. Works in oil on canvas. The recurring cast — goldfish with human hands, pomegranate branches, impossible blue water — comes from a childhood aquarium and a grandmother's orchard. Read the full statement.
Spacing & layout
4px base. Container 1280px, narrow 720px. Section rhythm is fluid: 64px on phones, 128px on desktop.
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Shape & shadow
Corners are nearly square (2px) — gallery, not app. The one expressive shadow is --shadow-frame: a hairline plus a warm drop, so a canvas reads as hanging on the wall.
Buttons
Ink on paper by default. Ultramarine only on hover or for the single most important action on a page.
Badges & chips
Status uses the painting palette. Chips filter the works grid by series, year, availability.
Forms
Fields are tall (48px), square-cornered, paper-white on paper. Focus is ultramarine.
Notices
Wayfinding
Hero
Home page opening. Title left, one work right, hanging with the frame shadow. Nothing else competes.
Fish with hands, fruit that stares back.
Large-format oil paintings — 4 by 5 feet — where the aquarium and the orchard have stopped pretending to be separate places.
Artwork cards
Artwork detail
Single work page. Image dominates; metadata and the inquiry action stay pinned on the right on desktop.
Scale
Four by five feet is hard to feel on a phone. This block draws the canvas and a 5′9″ person at true relative size, hung at gallery height (center at 57 in).
Statement & pull quote
I paint the aquarium the way I remember it, not the way it was — which means the fish have my grandmother's hands. Duke Klevenski, studio notes
The paintings begin as small gouache studies and end as 48 × 60 inch oils, usually one at a time, over eight to twelve weeks. The recurring motifs — goldfish, pomegranate and persimmon branches, human hands and hair — are not symbols with fixed meanings. They are a cast, and each painting is a new scene.
The blue is the constant. It is mixed from ultramarine and a little phthalo, applied in thick horizontal strokes so the surface reads as water even when it is standing in for sky.
Full artist statementBio & facts
Duke Klevenski
Contemporary painter working in Tampa, Florida.
Klevenski works exclusively in a 48 × 60 inch format, a decision made in 2022 after a decade of smaller work. The size forces a physical relationship: the painter reaches, the viewer steps back. His series Orchard Water and Night Aquarium have been shown across Florida and are held in private collections in the US and Europe.
The studio is in Ybor City. Visits are by appointment.
Exhibitions / CV
Solo exhibitions
- 2025Orchard Water
Tampa Museum of ArtTampa, FL - 2024Night Aquarium
Gallery 221, HCCTampa, FL - 2023Hands
Morean Arts CenterSt. Petersburg, FL
Group exhibitions
- 2025Florida Prize in Contemporary Art
Orlando Museum of ArtOrlando, FL - 2024Gulf Coast Painting Now
Sarasota Art MuseumSarasota, FL - 2023Untitled, Art Miami Beach
with Mindy Solomon GalleryMiami Beach, FL
Press & quotes
Klevenski's fish are funny until they aren't. Stand in front of one for a minute and the hands start to feel like yours.
The most confident use of ultramarine I've seen in a Florida painter in a decade.
Four by five feet, every one of them. He isn't making pictures; he's making rooms.
Inquiry
Contact page and the target of every "Inquire" button. Two columns on desktop: form and studio details.
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