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The beauty and light and dance and color in my work are translations of my most compelling emotions into energy. An inner search has helped me to understand, observe and accept problems that I face in a continuous dialogue between myself and my painting or sculpture. My work is a mirror that ceaselessly reflects everything I experience during its creation.
In my work my original Italian roots are constantly combined with my new American ones. In my Brooklyn studio the room takes light from the sky, thereby creating an enchanting work environment. Within this space an almost mystical spirituality - a necessary premise for my poetics - and the physical energy of the gesture and the action are harmoniously combined.
Born in Milan, Kikki Ghezzi settled in New York City at the turn of the Millennium.
Kikki has worked and studied with numerous renown artists and institutions in New York City, including painter Larry Poons at the Art Students League, the ateliers of sculptor Garth Evans and painter Graham Nickson, while also forming nurturing relationships with Emily Mason and Albert Kresch (Hans Hoffman’s assistant)- two artists deeply rooted in the art worlds of prior generations. The Artist received a Bachelor in Fine Arts with high honors from Pratt Institute, where she also won the Speier Foundation Award in 2007. In addition, for two consecutive years Ghezzi received a fellowship to study at the Vermont Studio Center, and was an artist-in-residence at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Ireland in June 2014 and 2015.
Kikki’s works have been exhibited in both the United States and Italy. Recent exhibitions include a collection of 5 paintings displayed at the Edward Hopper House in Nyack, New York (2015), and her solo show at the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University (IFA 2015). Her works were also selected among the winners of the international call for artists, “Call for Bushwick 2015” and displayed at the related show in Bushwick, Brooklyn (2015) and published in ”Kikki Ghezzi/Roots” by Skira (2014). In 2016 she has been selected as one of the resident artists of the ”LTA program” at the Guggenheim museum in New York City.
