Jeremiah Kille

“I’ve bounced around a lot in my art. It’s like music, sometimes I want to listen to The Pixies and sometimes I want to listen to Willie Nelson. Visually, there are so many things I’m interested in, so it’s hard for me to not pick up different styles and techniques,” says contemporary painter and onetime surfboard shaper Jeremiah Kille. This Northern California native feeds his love of surf and turf (he is an avid skateboarder) into energetic compositions, in which abstraction meets representation, and disparate images, patterns, and designs coalesce. Symbiosis is key to his approach. As he recently explained: “Generally my work largely emphasizes life and death, beauty and decay, the balance and symbiotic relationship of the two.”