KP Projects is pleased to present Famous Paintings, an exhibition featuring the work of J. Otto Seibold. His paintings are a response to online overstimulation. The works are, it follows, hyper-flat, full of 2D architectural renderings, blocks of landscape, broken geometries — all suspended in depthless plains. Populating the fields are untethered symbols: topiaries, trashed Warhols and pots of color, and dripping botanicals wrenched like wrought iron garden fences.

J. Otto Seibold (b. 1960) is a self-taught artist who was born in Oakland, California, and grew up an apricots-throw away from the John Muir home in Martinez, CA. He was able to sneak into the art world during the “outsider artist” craze of the 1990s and is the first person to use digital software to create children’s books with Mr. Lunch Takes a Plane Ride (1993). Seibold has continued publishing for the past twenty years and is best known for the Mr. Lunch series, as well as Olive the Other Reindeer (Chronicle Books, 1997), and Vunce Upon a Time (Chronicle Books, 2008).

Also a widely exhibited artist, he has shown work in galleries and museums including Deitch Projects, New York; Paule Anglim, San Francisco; Grass Hut, Portland, OR; MASS MoCA, Adams, MA; and Creative Time’s 42nd Street Art Project. In 2000, Seibold had a solo museum exhibition at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco.