Richmond artist Ian Kiel combines a background in art and architectural history with a self-taught painting practice. His large-scale oil canvases are built through layers of washes, erasures, and revisions, creating surfaces that carry both the weight of process and the immediacy of discovery.

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At times, figures and gilded symbols surface unexpectedly, shifting the work in directions beyond the artist’s initial vision. Rooted in abstraction yet attuned to symbolic forms and architectural echoes, Ian's work bridges past and present in a distinctly contemporary way.