Editing Leelee Sobieski (section)

== Art career ==
She began her art career using her married surname '''Leelee Kimmel'''. She paints and sculpts abstract work,<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/26/t-magazine/leelee-sobieski-kimmel-art.html|title=In the Studio With an Actress-Turned-Painter|last=Duray|first=Dan|year=2018|work=The New York Times|access-date=February 7, 2018|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> and works in VR, using [[Tilt Brush|Google Tilt Brush]].<ref name=":1" /> She uses bright colors, abstracted and textured shapes floating on either a large black or white background.

Her 2018 solo exhibit debut, "Channels", opened at the Journal Gallery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and garnered positive reviews.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.vogue.com/article/leelee-kimmel-debut-gallery-show|title=Artist Leelee Kimmel Attracts a Buzzy Crowd to Her First Solo Exhibition|work=Vogue|access-date=February 7, 2018}}</ref> ''Vogue'' said the exhibit and her work "warrants serious merit".<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.vogue.com/article/leelee-kimmel-debut-gallery-show|title=Artist Leelee Kimmel Attracts a Buzzy Crowd to Her First Solo Exhibition|work=Vogue|access-date=August 1, 2018}}</ref> She then debuted her first UK exhibit titled "Wormhole" at the Simon Lee Gallery in London. In this latest installment, she presents large-scale abstract paintings that are confrontational in both colour and dimension, exploring themes of creation and destruction.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.simonleegallery.com/exhibitions/139/|title=Leelee Kimmel: Wormhole|website=Simon Lee|access-date=August 1, 2018}}</ref> "Kimmel's world is very much her own – a heady mix of daftness and profundity – and a space that's potentially fascinating, yet disorientating for those unfamiliar with it. Such are the worlds she builds in her paintings, too, and which expand beyond the canvas into gloriously gelatinous sculptures and a pioneering VR piece."<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/11000/the-extraordinary-actress-turned-artist-painting-electricity|title=The Extraordinary Actress-Turned-Artist Painting Electricity|last=AnOther|date=July 13, 2018|work=AnOther|access-date=August 1, 2018}}</ref> Interview Magazine says, "Leelee Kimmel has always been an artist."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.interviewmagazine.com/art/leelee-kimmel-traded-silver-screen-art-gallery|title=Why Leelee Kimmel traded the silver screen for the art gallery - Interview Magazine|date=December 8, 2017|work=Interview|access-date=August 1, 2018}}</ref>