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Leelee Kimmel

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 evoke the tension between the macro and the micro, creation and destruction, motion and quietude. Personal signage pops off of and invades the canvas in multilayered oil, oil stick and acrylic.

Selected artworks

  • Leelee Kimmel,                                      Knight, 2021

    Leelee Kimmel Knight, 2021

    Acrylic, oil,oil stick on canvas 
    276.9 x 190.5 cm
    109 x 75 in

  • Leelee Kimmel,                                      Pieds dans l'eau, 2021

    Leelee Kimmel Pieds dans l'eau, 2021

    Acrylic, oil paint and oil stick on canvas
    203.2 x 177.8 x 3.2 cm
    80 x 70 x 1 1/2 in

  • Leelee Kimmel,                                      Hyrule, 2021

    Leelee Kimmel Hyrule, 2021

    Acrylic, oil, oil pastel, and oil stick on canvas
    188 x 218.4 cm
    74 x 86 in

  • Leelee Kimmel,                                      Fork it, 2021

    Leelee Kimmel Fork it, 2021

    Acrylic on wood panel
    76.2 x 101.6 x 4.1 cm
    30 x 40 x 1 5/8 in

  • Leelee Kimmel,                                      Formula 1, 2020

    Leelee Kimmel Formula 1, 2020

    Acrylic on canvas 
    210.8 x 243.8 x 3.8 cm
    83 x 96 x 1 1/2 in

  • Leelee Kimmel,                                      Lawrence - Shanghai fairs reserved, 2020

    Leelee Kimmel Lawrence - Shanghai fairs reserved, 2020

    Acrylic on canvas
    188 x 198.1 x 3.8 cm
    74 x 78 x 1 1/2 in

  • Leelee Kimmel,                                      Munch, 2021

    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,                                      Chinese dragon, 2019

    Leelee Kimmel Chinese dragon, 2019

    Acrylic on canvas
    169,9 x 160 x 3,8 cm
    66 7/8 x 63 x 1 1/2 in

  • Leelee Kimmel,                                      Pinkilicious, 2018

    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 in

  • Leelee Kimmel,                                      The Transfer, 2021

    Leelee Kimmel The Transfer, 2021

    Oil, Oil stick, Acrylic on canvas
    198.1 x 304.8 cm
    78 x 120 in

Museum exhibitions

Selected press