Leif Ritchey

(born 1975) is an American abstract painter.

Leif Ritchey was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1975. Ritchey is an American contemporary artist whose works combine art, music, and fashion. He is a colorist and often creates his work with an impasto application of white paint for both texture and dimension. He is known for his use of pale, pastel colors, manipulated pours and textures. Ritchey lives and works in Ann Arbor, Michigan and Brooklyn, New York City, New York.

Leif Ritchey draws on a plethora of materials, colours and layering in his work. His paintings are without unnecessary embellishment and enhancement, focusing instead on the inherent qualities of objects and their properties. His musical interest lends a poetic quality to his works: where concepts and notions interact to fall into a kind of interactive play: "Colors are colors and objects are objects, they dance together make music - a jam, I listen to the music and lose myself in it, dance along, live it, colors and forms find alchemy unknown".