WHEN:
January 25 — March 8, 2025
WHERE:
Vielmetter Los Angeles
1700 S Santa Fe Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90021
For more information and tickets visit the Vielmetter Los Angeles website.
A spokesperson describes the event as follows:
“...DeJesus’s first solo show with the gallery and features a selection of her recent abstract paintings, created using acrylic, oil, and mixed media on canvas.
Kim DeJesus employs skilled techniques such as staining, pouring, and blurring, resulting in voluminous, vibrant canvases that resonate with the complexities of nature, perception, and the human psyche. Drawing from historical movements like Color Field and Action Painting, DeJesus's work contributes to the rich tradition of American abstraction. These historical connections are enriched by an intuitively driven feminist perspective and a spiritually ritualistic approach to process.
DeJesus’s bold explorations of form, light, and depth evoke the ethereal and emotional. Each painting reflects on and builds upon the next. This creative progression allows DeJesus’s picture planes to develop through both surrender and intention, chance and control. She choreographs energetic and vivid compositions that pulse with life and offer space for transformation—equally for the artist herself and for the viewer—by creating a harmonious balance of introspection and expansion, form and formlessness..."
