Figurative

Kim Whitesides has explored the human form across decades of work that spans graphite, watercolor, pastel, and oil. His figurative paintings carry the influence of his years as an acclaimed illustrator in New York City, where his work appeared in Time, Rolling Stone, and Playboy, and earned him recognition from the Art Directors Club of New York and the Society of Illustrators. That commercial sharpness never dulled his painterly instincts. Whitesides brings to figurative work the same clarity and purposeful composition that distinguishes everything he touches, rendering the human subject with both precision and an unmistakable warmth of vision.