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KIKI KAYE

Lives and works in Cliffside Ajijic, Mexico
www.kikikaye.com

KiKi Kaye is German artist who was born in Shanghai China. She spent KiKi Kaye artistic explorations have touched on many different
her early life in Düsseldorf Germany, where she finished her (Gymnasium) mediums and ideas. She began with drawing as her base, eventually
High school. Since then she has lead a very international life, living in building on those skills by gaining expertise in realistic oil painting.
Monte Carlo/Monaco, Scottsdale / Arizona and now, in Ajijic, Mexico, During another chapter in KiKi’s artistic life she acquired the skill of
while also traveling to many other places. As a young woman she worked cartooning.
as a model, starting her career in New York City.
Her career quickly evolved and she soon moved back to Germany Kiki felt inspired to change her mode of expression again, and she
to become the country leading Model. Modeling created a flood of returned to painting. She fully embraced her imagination and jumped
opportunity to travel all over the world, which exposed Kiki to many into Abstract paintings. She slowly started introducing different
different cultures. Being both curious and sensitive she took every materials to her practice and her paintings became combines mixture
opportunity to explore the visual culture of the places she traveled to, of painting and sculpture in which she would attach electronic
and it was these vastly different experiences and cultural influences technology components to paintings. She also started exploring
that would evolve into her lifelong passion for art and impact her own narrative painting about the future. And finally figurative sculpture was
budding artistic career. It helped make her the unique artist she is today. added to her practice making Kiki Kaye practice a truly dynamic one.

I am primarily interested in blurring boundaries between two dimensional and ignite ecstatic color fields of paint, cast feet stabilize crowds, and serene,
three dimensional form while symbolically marrying the organic to the inorganic. introspective women connect to shiny cyber-ware in symbiotic relationships.
My exuberant palette and reflective materials are integrally tied to my content With my work both people and electronic equipment bask in the glow of harmony
about human potential, technology and our collective future. Circuit boards where human dynamism and our technological triumphs reveal what we can be.

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