Kippi Leonard Art Studio
Cathedral City, CA
Large scale ethereal ink and contemporary abstract oil paintings. Palm Springs based artist.
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Working from her Palm Springs California studio, Kippi creates work that is poetic and subdued yet revealing and evocative as she layers rich colors onto organic materials such as raw canvas, raw linen and wood panel.
Her work consists of oil paints collected during her travels here and abroad, cold wax medium, graphite, charcoal, oil stick and desert sand she collects while hiking.
Her finished pieces are typically a minimal color palette with expressive intentional line work, surface texture created subtly within her layered approach painting technique and unexpected moments of color which are revealed intentionally during her process using potters carving tools and sandpaper. Kippi's body of work is innovative in her approach preferring to paint flat and work around the surface adding layers from many different perspectives.
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BASED IN CATHEDRAL CITY CALIFORNIA
GALLERY INQUIRIES
Flow Modern Gallery, Palm Springs, Ca.
Seattle Art Source, Seattle, Wa.
Costello Gallery, Scottsdale, Az.
SELECT EXHIBITIONS
2022 Flow Modern Gallery, Palm Springs, Ca. URBANSCAPES Solo Exhibition.
2022 Seattle Art Source, Seattle Wa. Elements and Light Solo Exhibition.
2020 Flow Modern Palm Springs, Ca.Layered Exhibition (SOLD OUT)
2019 Las Lagunas Gallery, Laguna Beach, Ca.
2019 Michael Birawer Gallery, Seattle ,Wa. Solo Exhibition.
2018 Michael Birawer Gallery, Seattle, Wa. Solo Exhibition.
2018 Traumhaus Gallery, Snohomish, Wa.
2018 Bemis Spring Art Show, Seattle, Wa.
2018 Northwind Art Center, Port Townsend, Wa
2018 Kenmore Art Show, Kenmore, Wa.
2018 Schack Art Center, Everett, Wa.
2018 Seattle City Hall, Seattle, Wa.
AWARDS
2022 La Jolla Art Fine Art Festival, First Place Painting.
2019 Indian Wells Fine Art Festival, Second Place Mixed Media Painting.