Nikki de León is a German and Mexican-American painter, sculptor, and fabricator currently working out of the California Central Valley. Born and raised in Germany, she recently relocated to the region to reconnect with her roots — trading the dense, vertically enclosed architectural landscapes of Europe for the massive, horizontal openness of the Valley terrain. Heavily informed by an academic background in architecture and years of hands-on experience as a professional wood and metal fabricator in Cologne, her studio practice is an act of abstract reconstruction. Driven by a fascination with the structurally concealed, her work is rooted in the idea that neither spaces nor people are ever fully revealed.