Leelee Sobieski’s new life: The actress who worked with Tom Cruise is now a painter

Leelee Sobieski had a very enviable career in Hollywood with hit movies year after year.

The New York native – born Liliane Rudabet Gloria Elsveta ‘Leelee’ Sobieski – worked with all the new main males within the movie business together with Tom Cruise in Eyes Wide Shut, Josh Hartnett in Heaven On Earth and Paul Walker on Joy Ride.

But 11 years in the past the blonde magnificence – who is now 38-years-old – left all of it for a career as a painter. Her spectacular Night Ride exhibition is at the moment on show in Shanghai till June 25. 

She has additionally had exhibits in Aspen and Paris, and sells frequently on Sothebys.

According to a 2018 MutualArt article, her artwork work can promote for as much as $37,500 however has seemingly climbed larger lately. 

The magnificence, who goes by Leelee Kimmel after marrying clothier Adam Kimmel in 2010, exhibits off her work on Instagram.

Her background screams artwork: She majored in visible arts at Brown University and her father Jean Sobieski, is a well-known painter.  

‘I believed that due to my previous, my work can be judged harshly,’ Leelee admitted to artnet News in 2018. 

‘I needed to guarantee that if all people actually hated them, I might nonetheless be ok with it. This is actually what’s within me, and I’m not making an attempt to be anyone else.… It was virtually like popping out of the closet or one thing!’ she added.

The star additionally shared: ‘I stored working fervently in secret. Painting was at all times my objective; I simply stored getting distracted with work issues and paying payments.’

She doesn’t act anymore however paints full time as she raised her two youngsters Louisiana and Martin.

Her final film was made when she was 27.

But Leelee doesn’t remorse working as an actress in her younger years.  

‘I had a actually comfortable childhood, and had a lot of enjoyable, and did some work that I be ok with. I really feel blessed I used to be capable of have these experiences that appear to different individuals to be very fascinating,’ she stated. 

‘In my work there’s a lot about power and vibrations and the entire world being linked,” Kimmel defined, contrasting that sense of management to the expertise of being on a movie set. “If you’re on a crew and 150 people are pushing for you to fall in love with somebody else, everybody is rooting for it. That’s the energy of a lot of people, but it’s fake.’

And unlike acting, painting gives her real experiences.

‘Actors end up going from one role to another with all this energy behind them, and you just become emptier and emptier and emptier—you end up having no real experiences,’ she shared.

‘To cry, you end up drawing on the experiences of another character you played.’

And she does not want to star in romances: ‘I don’t want my children to look at Netflix and see me on screen in the arms of someone who’s not their dad.’

Kimmel makes assertively abstract paintings, and yet nonetheless her work engages in a playful yet conceptually investigative manner with issues of ‘hidden,’ surreptitious, or cryptic representation, according to Almine Rech.

‘She is committed to the formal adventure of abstraction, but abjures any comforting illusions about purity or purgative “rigor.” Kimmel works in portray, sculpture and digital actuality. 

‘Her work have been exploring themes of creation and destruction. Personal signage popping off of and invading the canvas in multilayered oil, oil stick and acryli. 

‘It’s the macro and the micro, the human soul, spy vs spy,’ it was added on the Rech web site.

In her final Instagram put up from Thursday she shared a picture of a huge canvas. ‘Night Rider, 76 x 108 inches, 2020-2021, Oil, Oil stick and Acrylic on canvas,’ she wrote in her caption.