Statement

My practice is textile-based, utilizing both hand-woven cloth and manufactured fabric. Contextualized by my southern, religious upbringing and my parents’ small-town entrepreneurial spirit, my work has been described as “simultaneously gentle and loud”. Representational abstractions emerge in explorations of image making and form building through cloth. Pattern, silhouette, and sculptural elements create tension and precarity throughout the body of fabric. Utilization of both weaving and unweaving processes expose warp and weft thread to demonstrate the singularity of thread within the subject matter. The resulting referential systems of cloth point to notions of labor, indoctrination, and ritual - all methods of survival. These existential yearnings through making intend to use cloth as a metaphor for human production at large, and consider what entropy reciprocates our progress.

Bio

Expanding upon her undergraduate textiles education from Savannah College of Art and Design, Kimberly earned her MFA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Studio Art as a Carolina Digital Humanities Fellow in 2018. Kimberly has been awarded residencies at Woodstock Byrdcliffe Artist Colony, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, The Bascom Center for the Visual Arts, and Praxis Digital Weaving Lab.

Her work has been exhibited widely and internationally, currently at the Spartanburg Art Museum, and recently at the New Bedford Art Museum, the Delaware Contemporary, the Ackland Museum, Vox Populi, CICA Museum, and the Museum of Craft and Design. 

 

Photo by Colby Rabon.

 

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