Kiki Valdes 4.0

"Face-Time" 

Oil on canvas (2012) 

I've been doing cartoon based drawings with india ink for the past year. This is my first attempt at this new form of painting for me. It's a mixture of expressionism and cartoon imagery from my childhood. I stopped painting women in the traditional sense and started using something more playful and nostalgic to pull new viewers into some of the same type of issues and themes I’ve been experimenting with for the past 5 years.  

Kiki Valdes

"Erasing Boogie" 

Kiki Valdes - Oil, acyrlic on canvas. 

I found this photo of this painting I did a few years ago. It was a painting I was working on then I started layering it with older paintings and ideas I never finished, basically in some ways I resolved this painting with previous ideas from other works and studies. 

KIKI VALDES

painting in Bogota, Colombia for Social Media Week. Here are photos of the process of the painting being created.

Another cool picture by David Cabrea.  

I love this guy. He pretty much captures

really important phases of my artistic development. Check out his work.

This was taken at our show THE OUTSIDERS. 

KIKI VALDES 9 MUSES 

VALISSA YOE and KIKI VALDES 

in front of the painting "Face-Time" 2012. The painting was featured during THE OUTSIDERS group show from Jan. Photo by David Cabrera

KIKI VALDES 

 "A Little Bird Told Me" 2012

Painted this at a benefit for Pincrest Gardens with private concert by Stephen Marley. Mr. Marley confronted me about the painting wanting to know what it means. He put me on the spot in a way that made me speechless. I was not expecting a musician to question my actions as a painter. But then again he’s a Marley….a legend. 

- KV

"A genuine man goes to the roots. To be a radical is no more than that: to go to the roots."

- Jose Marti 

THE OUTSIDERS

ERIC TORRIENTE - KIKI VALDES - GEORGE SANCHEZ-CALDERON - KRISTY LEIBOWITZ - DAVID MARSH - NICOLE SODEN - EDWARD CROWELL II - JOHNNY LADERER - DAVID “UPNUP” CABRERA - DIANNE RADLER - ROLLIN STIRMAN

Ironside Warehouse - 7630 NE 4th Court Miami, FL 33138-5032 - book appointment: 786.315.8369  - Show runs till Jan. 14th.

CURATOR: KIKI VALDES