Leelee Kimmel makes assertively abstract paintings, and yet nonetheless her work engages in a playful yet conceptually investigative manner with issues of “hidden,” surreptitious, or cryptic representation. She is committed to the formal adventure of abstraction, but abjures any comforting illusions about purity or purgative “rigor.”
Kimmel works in painting, sculpture and virtual reality. Her paintings have been exploring themes of creation and destruction. Personal signage popping off of and invading the canvas in multilayered oil, oil stick and acrylic . It's the macro and the micro, the human soul, spy vs spy.
Leelee Kimmel
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Leelee Kimmel, Munch, 2021
Acrylic on canvas
182.9 x 160 x 3.8 cm
72 x 63 x 1 1/2 in -
Leelee Kimmel, Hyrule, 2021
Acrylic, oil, oil pastel, and oil stick on canvas
188 x 218.4 cm
74 x 86 in -
Leelee Kimmel, Pinkilicious, 2018
Acrylic on canvas
292,1 x 222,3 x 3,8 cm
115 x 87 1/2 x 1 1/2 inches -
Leelee Kimmel, Landing, 2018
Acrylic on canvas
279,4 x 353,1 x 3,8 cm
110 x 139 x 1 1/2 inches -
Leelee Kimmel, Hawk and Stuff, 2018
Acrylic on canvas
304,8 x 199,4 x 3,8 cm
120 x 78 1/2 x 1 1/2 inches -
Leelee Kimmel, Griffen, 2018
Acrylic on canvas
208,3 x 284,5 x 3,8 cm
82 x 112 x 1 1/2 inches -
Leelee Kimmel, CRISPR, 2018
Acrylic on canvas
208,3 x 345,4 x 3,8 cm
82 x 136 x 1 1/2 inches -
Leelee Kimmel, This High or The Godfather, 2018
Acrylic on canvas
276,9 x 208,3 x 3,8 cm
109 x 82 x 1 1/2 inches -
Leelee Kimmel, Dive, 2018
Acrylic on canvas
228,6 x 284,5 x 3,8 cm
90 x 112 x 1 1/2 inches -
Leelee Kimmel, Forrest, 2018
Acrylic on canvas
203,2 x 279,4 x 3,8 cm
80 x 110 x 1 1/2 inches -
Leelee Kimmel, Phone Home, 2019
Acrylic on canvas
152,4 x 188 x 3,8 cm
60 x 74 x 1 1/2 inches -
Leelee Kimmel, Gilet, 2019
Acrylic on canvas
182,9 x 213 x 3,8 cm
72 x 83 7/8 x 1 1/2 inches -
Leelee Kimmel, Alien in The City (or Lean), 2018
Acrylic on canvas
168 x 158,1 x 3,8 cm
66 1/8 x 62 1/4 x 1 1/2 inches
Exhibitions
Selected press
- Roxana Azimi, ‘Leelee Kimmel’, M Le Magazine du Monde, July 2019 — 411.4 kB
- Haley Mellin, 'Artist Leelee Kimmel Paints 'Like A Game of Twister'', Garage, 2019 — 5.2 MB
- Ambre Clément, ‘Leelee Kimmel : l'artiste à découvrir cette semaine à Paris’, Architectural Digest, June 2019 — 1.6 MB
- Agathe Moreaux, 'Leelee Kimmel, couleurs sur nuit', Le Figaroscope, June 2019 — 86.8 kB
- Nadja Sayej, 'From Eyes Wide Shut To Almine Rech', The Art Gorgeous, May 2019 — 1.0 MB
- ‘Leelee Kimmel - From "Eyes Wide Shut" to the Art World', Art Gorgeous, February 08, 2018 — 344.3 kB
- Sarah Cascone, ‘"Painting Was Always My Goal": Former Actress Leelee Kimmel on Why She Gave Up Hollywood for Art’, Artnet, February 7, 2018 — 402.2 kB
- Kat Herriman, ‘Artist Leelee Kimmel's Abstractions land at Simon Lee’, Cultured, July 2018 — 423.2 kB
- Irina Baconsky, ‘Drop down a wormhole with a new VR video from Leelee Kimmel’, Dazed, July 25, 2018 — 164.4 kB
- Dan Duray, ‘In the Studio With an Actress-Turned-Painter', The New York Times Style Magazine, January 26, 2018 — 177.5 kB
- Lilah Ramzi, ‘Artist Leelee Kimmel attracts a buzzy crowd to her first solo exhibition’, Vogue, January 2018 — 159.5 kB
- Yan Xiaoxiao, 'Night Ride Without Maps | Leelee Kimmel's Journey of Painting', Art Touch, June 2022 — 614.4 kB