Mike Kimball is an artist in love with the city. He is best known for his paintings and prints of urban landscapes that seem to inhabit the worlds of both representation and abstraction simultaneously. The subjects of his artwork have been the urban environments of San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Tokyo and Osaka. "Whenever I look at the city, I end up seeing it in terms of patterns and textures and layered geometry. Its all in plain sight if you think to look for it." says Kimball.

His artwork focuses on the underlying geometric abstraction of the architecture and design found in the urban landscape, as well as the curious effect that time and chaos has on that geometric order as it moves towards disorder and entropy.

Kimball has exhibited his work nationally and is a member of the California Society of Printmakers and the Los Angeles Printmaking Society. He is also a two-time recipient of the Yozo Hamaguchi scholarship for printmaking excellence. Hamaguchi, who passed away in 2000 at the age of 81, was perhaps the leading contemporary exponent of the art of the mezzotint print.

The artist and his wife Rita both grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico. They now live and work in San Francisco, California and Placitas, New Mexico, splitting their time between the densely urbanized Bay Area and the wide open spaces of the American southwest.