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Almine Rech

Leelee Kimmel Night Ride

Jul 27 — Aug 5, 2022 | Shanghai
For the safety of our visitors and staff, masks must be worn by all visitors upon entrance, and negative PCR test result within 24 hours is required while entering. Inquire about the exhibition: inquiries@alminerech.com The gallery is open from 11 am until 7 pm.

Almine Rech Shanghai is pleased to present Leelee Kimmel’s second solo exhibition since she joined the gallery in 2019, also her first solo show in China.

Leelee Kimmel’s paintings have always sustained this vibe, her abstract shapes from her very first show proclaiming themselves biomorphs, and avowing kinship with the art of Surrealism of Joan Miró, Yves Tanguy, and Roberto Matta-Echaurren. The most immediately apparent stylistic or formal quality is the impression of rapid, perfervid mark making. Her thick impastos nonetheless appear as if racing, colors violently switching ON/OFF ON/OFF, furious binaries. And this gestural ferment, these leaping and bounding motions indicate a desire for relentless movement within the confines of the picture plane and no less within the viewer, who may come to long for those moments of intersection or erasure in Kimmel’s work when everything goes quiet, stops pullulating: when this foreign-seeming tumult proffers moments of respite, or silent meditation. 

- David Rimanelli, writer and independent curator

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Selected artworks

  • Leelee Kimmel,                                      Pink Springs 2, 2021

    Leelee Kimmel Pink Springs 2, 2021

    Acrylic on wood panel
    76.2 x 101.6 cm
    30 x 40 in

  • Leelee Kimmel,                                      Just Left, 2021

    Leelee Kimmel Just Left, 2021

    Oil, Oil stick, Acrylic on canvas
    275.6 x 283.2 cm
    108 1/2 x 111 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

  • Leelee Kimmel,                                      Night Rider, 2021

    Leelee Kimmel Night Rider, 2021

    Oil, Oil stick, Acrylic on canvas
    193 x 274.3 cm
    76 x 108 in

  • Leelee Kimmel,                                      Night Catch, 2021

    Leelee Kimmel Night Catch, 2021

    Oil, Oil stick, Acrylic on canvas
    170.2 x 226.1 cm
    67 x 89 in

  • Leelee Kimmel,                                      How Many Birds Nocturnal Jungle, 2021

    Leelee Kimmel How Many Birds Nocturnal Jungle, 2021

    Oil, Oil stick, Acrylic on canvas
    165.1 x 175.3 cm
    65 x 69 in

  • Leelee Kimmel,                                      Wait in the Garden, 2021

    Leelee Kimmel Wait in the Garden, 2021

    Oil, Oil stick, Acrylic on canvas
    203.2 x 281.9 cm
    80 x 111 in

  • Leelee Kimmel,                                      Hungry Vista, 2021

    Leelee Kimmel Hungry Vista, 2021

    Oil, Oil stick, Acrylic on canvas
    170.2 x 248.9 cm
    67 x 98 in