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| Kimberly Macarthur Graham |
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I was born in Dallas, Texas, USA, in 1969. Eventually, I settled in Denver, Colorado, with my husband and a handful of animals. My art is shown regularly at commercial galleries and art centers, and I am also a freelance writer on architecture, design, and fine art.
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| 关于此艺术家 |
Inspired by the logic and beauty of growth patterns, life cycles, and the myriad shapes taken by living organisms, my paintings are mythical worlds peopled by seeds and pods. Rich in color, texture, and pattern, these works set a stage for the universal dance of opposites: fertile and barren, desirable and repellant, life and death.
I am in debt to a variety of global predecessors, including 15th-century Northern European painting, Islamic and Aboriginal art forms, Surrealism, and Chinese and Japanese scroll-painting. I am influenced by an ever-expanding spectrum of individual artists including Hieronymus Bosch, Max Ernst, Sean Scully, Fred Tomaselli, Emilio Lobato, Lisa Ludwig, and Judy Pfaff. I am a believer in the Japanese notion of sabi, or finding beauty in the old and imperfect, and in anyone not afraid to make deeply personal art.
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Heart of Barcelona
2007 oil and mixed media on panel 22.9 cm x 22.9 cm |
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This is from A Luminous Thread, a series of thirty-seven panels in this cycle, one for each of my three-dozen-plus-one years. Each is a stilled moment, possibly fictional, inspired by some of the wondrous places I’ve wandered.
Each panel, which I work nearly obsessively, comprises several progressively more translucent layers, applied in the following order: cut and collaged oilstick drawings, variously folded ost money (four pieces), acrylic medium worked with a palette knife, several layers of oil paint, and gold- or silver-leaf pen work.
I wrote poetry to accompany the paintings in the original installation. |
Spanish Fireflies
2007 oil and mixed media on panel 22.9 cm x 22.9 cm |
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This is from A Luminous Thread, a series of thirty-seven panels in this cycle, one for each of my three-dozen-plus-one years. Each is a stilled moment, possibly fictional, inspired by some of the wondrous places I’ve wandered.
Each panel, which I work nearly obsessively, comprises several progressively more translucent layers, applied in the following order: cut and collaged oilstick drawings, variously folded ost money (four pieces), acrylic medium worked with a palette knife, several layers of oil paint, and gold- or silver-leaf pen work.
I wrote poetry to accompany the paintings in the original installation. |
A curious Amalgam of Two Day-hikes
2007 oil and m/m on wood 76.2 cm x 76.2 cm |
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Mixed media painting: card stock, watermark stripe paper, oil, and acrylic on wood
From a series inspired by landscapes real and imagined |
Winter: Chicago Lakes Trail
2007-08 oil and m/m on wood variable; approx. 152.4 x 182.9 |
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MEDIUM: Tar paper, watermark stripe paper, oil, acrylic, and metal leaf on 5 panels
STORY: I have hiked Mt. Evans Wilderness on the cusp of fall into winter, when earth and sky are white and umber and cerulean, when everything is clean and glistening as bone. Ancient bristlecone pines dominate the higher ground, and the intricate patterns of their rough bark, cranky branches and roots informed my composition. The patterning also alludes to alternate ways the area might be recorded: the wending lines on a trail map or the nested shapes of a topo map.
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Autumn: Clark Street Bridge, Chicago
2007 Oil and m/m on wood approx. 182.9 x 213.4 |
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MEDIUM: Tar paper, watermark stripe paper, oil, acrylic on wood
STORY: I traveled to Chicago in October to run the marathon. At noon one day, we witnessed a remarkable performance, a collaboration between an artist, Hugh Musick, and a composer, Eric Roth. They had mapped out the tonal range of one of the city’s iconic steel bridges, and then used those sounds in a percussive composition performed on site. The radiant sun, the fluid motion of the performers and the responsive tap-tapping feet of the audience, the rhythms of the music, which echoed visually and aurally against the skyline: all were distilled into this painting. |
Origin and Abundance
2007 Oil and m/m on wood 121.9 x 121.9 |
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MEDIUM: Tar paper, watermark stripe paper, oil, acrylic on two joined panels
STORY: I love thunderstorms. Always have. I grew up in Texas, where rumbling, flashing storms dominate the summer sky. My mom and I would watch eagerly as fantastic sooty clouds rolled in, furious and nimble, trailing the scent of rain. For us, it was like the circus coming to town, a front-row seat to the most amazing show on Earth, and we never tired of it. That feeling of electric anticipation and then the enjoyment of something unpredictable, even a bit dangerous, has stayed with me and drives many desires.
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River III: Winter Begets Spring
2008 Oil and m/m on wood 121.9 x 38.1 |
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MEDIUM: Tar paper, mulberry paper, oil, acrylic on wood
STORY: This is the time of extremes. The wind howls, but the snow falls silently and ice effortlessly grasps the tall, dry grass. The days are short, but the sun is powerful. The climate is harsh, but the atmosphere is peaceful. I love spending time outside in the winter, tasting its clean air and allowing its cold to cleanse me. And watching for signs that the world, like me, is preparing for spring.
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| 教育程度与个人自传 |
EDUCATION
M.A., art history, U of Denver, CO, USA - 1997
B.A., studio art, U of Texas at Austin, TX, USA - 1991
GALLERY AFFILIATIONS
Sandra Phillips Gallery, Denver, CO, USA
Artizen Fine Art, Dallas, TX, USA
Infusion Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
StoneHeart Gallery, Evergreen, CO, USA
Blue Dome Gallery, Silver City, NM, USA
EDGE Artist-run Gallery Associate, Denver, CO, USA
SELECT PAST EXHIBITIONS
"The Seduction of Place," Sandra Phillips Gallery,, Denver, CO, USA, 2008
Juried Student/Alumni Exhibition, U of Denver, CO, USA, 2008
"Power of Suggestion," Infusion Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA, 2007
"Seeds," Lakewood Cultural Center, CO, USA, 2007
"A Luminous Thread," EDGE Gallery, Denver, CO, USA, 2007
"High Heels in Wet Pavement," Eleanor Bliss Center for the Arts, Steamboat Springs, CO, USA, 2006
"FUSE," StoneHeart Gallery, Evergreen, CO, USA, 2006-07
"Power of Word," DAVA Gallery, Aurora, CO, USA, 2006
23rd Annual All-Colorado Art Show, Curtis Arts & Humanities Center, Greenwood Village, CO, USA, 2006; Juror: Lawrence Argent
"Offering," EDGE Gallery, Denver, CO, USA, 2006
"Stretched Tight," Target Gallery at the Torpedo Factory Art Center, Alexandria, VA, USA, 2006
"Art on the Edge," Red Rocks Community College, Lakewood, CO, USA, 2006
"Winter Fruit," Mildred M. Cox Gallery, William Woods Univ., Fulton, MO, USA, 2006
Installation at Buell Theatre, Denver Performing Arts Complex, CO, USA, 2005
"Cross-Pollination" (collaboration with sculptor Bonnie Ferrill Roman), CORE New Art Space, Denver, CO, USA, 2005
"Dialog," Studio Aiello, Denver, CO, USA, 2005
"Within/Without: A Conversation in Painting and Poetry" (collaboration with poet Kathryn T.S. Bass), The Western Colorado Center for the Arts, Grand Junction, CO, USA, 2005
"A/(I)llusions," Yellow Door Gallery, Denver, CO, USA, 2004
"Opus 2 in G," Blue Dome Gallery, Silver City, NM, USA, 2004
"Organic Forms," Improv Contemporary Gallery, Fort Collins, CO, USA, 2002
"Pilgrimage," 44T Artspace, Denver, CO, USA, 2002
"Unnoticed Fragments," Fresh Art Gallery, Denver, CO, USA, 2002
"Passage," 44T Artspace, Denver, CO, USA, 2001
"Serendipities," New Lab, Denver, CO, USA, 2001
2004 All-Colorado Show, Curtis Arts & Humanities Center, Greenwood Village, CO, USA; Juror: Adam Lerner
Third Annual National Juried Drawing Exhibition, Wiford & Vogt Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM, USA, 2004
"Contemporary Colorado 2001," The Western Colorado Center for the Arts, Grand Junction, CO, USA |
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| 未来的展览 |
| "Zen of Art" (working title) at Cerulean Gallery, Dallas, TX, USA - July 2008 |
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网站: www.kmgraham.com |
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