KIM MANFREDI

OPENING JANUARY 24, 2026

For Kim Manfredi, spray paint is a way to work directly with light and permeability. Her practice combines traditional methods of fine art, lirojects is pleased to present Double Take: Kim Manfredi x Michael Todd. Double Take is a ke oil paint, and newer, more contemporary materials like aerosol spray paint. At once, these two mediums converse in the confines of her canvas. The paintings echo the brilliance captured in stained glass or gilded surfaces of the Italian Renaissance, a current of inspiration that runs through the artist’s practice. “ Luminosity, for me, is not just optical but emotional: a way of holding vulnerability and radiance.” The shapes and tones of Manfredi’s works defy tangibility. The oil paint anchors the compositions, while the spray paint defuses any edges or containment. 

Kim Manfredi uses rattle can spray paint and traditional oils to create artworks inspired by desert horizons and art history. Moved by renaissance and baroque paintings of marginalized women like Mary and Judith, she explores bravery, compassion, love, grief and endurance. Her paintings land between abstraction and representation, street art and surrealism, the spiritual and the concrete.