Kim Ford Kitz@kimfordkitz
Kim Ford Kitz grew up in Southern California Beach towns, lived in San Francisco as a young adult and now lives and works in beautiful West Marin. In 2016 she had her first solo exhibition titled, "California" which presented her abstract landscapes at Seager Gray Gallery in Mill Valley, CA. Kitz is a California girl who comes by her West Coast aesthetic honestly, drawing inspiration from renowned Bay Area artists who came before her, like Richard Diebenkorn, Wayne Thiebaud, David Park, and Joan Brown.
Kitz is best known for her acclaimed cityscapes of famous San Francisco locations, oftentimes foregoing famous SF landmarks and replacing them with made-up buildings and farm-fields that better conform to the artist's unique sense of balance and composition. These squares and rectangles, stacked in colorful boxes, line the streets that drop vertiginously towards the bay. Cutting in thick swathes of paint with palette knives Kitz gives these shapes a clarity and edge, which adds a sure-handed intensity to her work.
Kitz exhibited a talent for painting and drawing throughout her childhood. When her youngest child began school, she became a full-time student at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, graduating with honors in 2005, and has since evolved to become a more abstract, and successful, artist. Kitz is having her second solo show exhibition at Seager Gray Gallery during the month of April, 2019. Shows title is, "Into the West".
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