Julia Latein-Kimmig

FAT COLOR WINS…CREATE…LAYERS…NO FEAR…HAVING
FUN?...COLLAGE COLLAGE… TIME … FOR… REJECTS…
THICK PAINT…BUILD UP…
NO RULES EXCEPT…COMPOSITION OVER DETAIL…TEXTURE…EDIT…
FORGET PATIENCE…LINE…RHYTHM HAPPENS…OR NOT…
SUSPENSE…NO MERCY… ADD…TAKE…IN NEED OF HAPPY ACCIDENTS…
IT’S GROWING ON ME…
NOTHING TO LOSE…
EVER.

All of that and more sooner or later happens usually, in random order, when I am about to cross paths with a blank canvas or an unspoiled sheet of paper. Every piece in the making is a welcome surprise, always, thanks to no specific order of above companions in creativity, unique and unforeseeable because of that.

Some surprises last, others end as scraps, no mercy, finding their second-hand way into new pieces, that not seldom owe their final success to the rejects. Color rules, first, nothing beats color; loads of paint set the stage, and then lines, boundaries, ideas join, make their adventurous journey into a messy thick chaos, eventually there will be time for pruning, once in a while.

When unruly is not a good thing anymore, it’s time to retain the precious and leave out the unnecessary; if not working, I have no hesitation in abandoning and changing everything.

Curiosity beats respect, nothing is too precious.

Julia Latein-Kimmig is an abstract painter. Julia Latein-Kimmig in Potomac, MD, where she maintains a studio and where she works on her abstract paintings and monotypes. She was born in Cologne, Germany and, after spending her early childhood in Brazil, grew up in the Black Forest region of Germany.

She holds a law degree from the University in Freiburg i.Br., Germany. She moved to the United States in 1989 due to her husband’s career move and took up art with Helen Corning at Glen Echo Park, MD and later Marsha Staiger at The Art League, Virginia. She also studied printmaking with Natasha Karpinskaia at Glen Echo Park, MD.

Julia taught children's and adult classes at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington in Rockville from 2002 to the summer of 2004 before moving to Istanbul, Turkey for three years. There she continued teaching painting classes within the international expat community and at a local orphanage until her return to the U.S. in 2007.

In the past, Julia Latein-Kimmig exhibited at Ingrid Cooper Gallery in North Bethesda, MD; the German School in Potomac, MD; The International Women of Istanbul annual September meetings at the Hilton in Istanbul, Turkey; and with “Die Bruecke,” a German-speaking community in Istanbul, Turkey. She also has participated in member shows at the Yellow Barn, Glen Echo Park, MD, and in the “Feb Four” show in 2011 of new members at the Foundry Gallery in Washington D.C.