Vielmetter Los Angeles is thrilled to present Moonbliss Riverdream, a solo exhibition by Los Angeles painter Kim DeJesus on view from January 25 to March 8, 2025. This exhibition marks 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.

Her approach to color field painting offers insights into the fleeting nature of memory, perception, and the depths of consciousness, highlighting abstraction’s potential as a poetic language. The works in Moonbliss Riverdream evoke the vastness of outer space, suggesting an analogy to the enormity of the spiritual realms we each hold within ourselves. This shift from outer to inner space encourages viewers to tap into their own perception of space and consciousness to access nuanced levels of awareness.

Kim DeJesus (b. 1981) received a BFA from Arizona State University, where she received the Katherine K. Herberger Painting Scholarship. Recent solo exhibitions include Letter to a Memory (2024) at William Turner Gallery in Santa Monica, CA, and The Map Home (2024) with Morris Adjmi, a New York City-based architecture and interior design firm.