Bio

Kimberly is a graduate of the University of Tennessee with a Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honors. Her painting style is contemporary/modern, inspired and influenced by Abstract Expressionism. Her media is primarily alkyds and oils on canvas support. She has participated in a variety of national and international art shows, with such recent exhibitions as:

“New Directions” at Dragonfly Gallery, Austin, Texas 2010; The Orchard Gallery 2010 Juried Arts Exhibition, Bethesda, Maryland; “La Femme: The Feminine” at the Sewall-Belmont House and Museum 2008, Capitol Hill, Washington, DC; The 33rd Annual International Miniature Art Show 2008, Miniature Art Society of Florida; The 74th Annual International Exhibition of Fine Art in Miniature 2007, Miniature Painters, Sculptors and Gravers Society of Washington, DC; MasterWorks of New Mexico Fine Art Show of 2007, Albuquerque, New Mexico; and “Vital Signs” Solo Exhibition (15 September through 5 October 2010) at the Orchard Gallery, Bethesda, Maryland.

Kimberly is a member of the Washington Project for the Arts, Washington Calligraphers Guild, Australian Society of Calligraphers and the Society of Layerists in Multi-Media.

Artist Statement

My work tends to focus on color, texture, and abstract shapes as seen every day in the natural world. This collection of paintings is motivated by images of life and its many transformations.

I draw inspiration from artists who are most commonly associated with Abstract Expressionism (New York, New York, 1946 to 1960’s). Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, Joan Mitchell, and Hans Hofmann are just a few of the artists who expressed themselves through this form of non-representational art.

Calligraphic, energetic, organic flowing lines are integral to my work. Some markings carry the paintings; others slip through translucent colors providing unexpected points of interest and depth.

I build upon multiple layers of glazes, impasto, deliberate strokes and marks to create abstract art with an edgy, raw finish, remaining intentionally open for the viewer’s own interpretation.