Spotlight Artist

Kimberly Montiel

Midwest
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Nightfall

Colorful drawing of three girls with sun-shaped headbands in a vibrant, abstract landscape.

acrylic, gouache, felt, and apple seeds on oak

Birthday Wish

Colorful whimsical village with patterned houses, hearts, flowers, and cartoon faces in clouds.

acrylic, gouache, paper, and vintage cabochon on walnut

Crystallization

Colorful abstract painting with vibrant shapes, flowers, faces, and surreal scenery.

acrylic, gouache, beads, abalone fragments, and dried petals on maple

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Artist Statement

 Painting is my language and most authentic mode of communication. I have an ever-growing body of smaller work on an assortment of wood species. My mixed-media paintings are floral-vegetal-biological-mineral-synthetic efflorescence: the play of nature and artifice. Attached and embedded into the hollows and nooks of my paintings are specifically collected objects, vernacular as well as magical. Solitary Beings ruled by Eros inhabit my paintings/phantasms in settings of electric bursts of energy and scenery. These Beings are in the company of ineffable symbols and gatherings of plants, creatures, and flowers.

Senses float on blood to the heart, transmuted into images, and then are intercepted on earthly materials selectively revealed.

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