ABOUT KIMBERLEY
You can download a PDF resume right here!
In her younger days, Kimberley wandered restlessly about, wondering what to do with her hands. When she got older, she finally figured it out.
She is currently pursuing a BFA in Sculpture, alongside a BA in Art History, at The University of Alabama in Huntsville and making new stuff in Studio 1021 at Lowe Mill ARTS & Entertainment. Her human-scale abstract artworks and installations use largely elemental and reclaimed materials — wood, plaster, cement, fiber.
KIMBERLEY'S WORK HAS BEEN SHOWN AT the Shelby County Arts Council in Columbiana, the Carnegie Visual Arts Center in Decatur, the Wiregrass Museum in Dothan, and the Georgine Clarke Alabama Artists Gallery, in Montgomery, Alabama, as well as in Tennessee and Illinois. She is the recipient of the Nanuk Smith Award for Best Sculpture, the President’s Award, the Provost Award, and Best in Show in UAH Annual Juried Student Art Shows.
Art is a constant learning process. It means continually exploring concepts, thoughts, ideas, materials and processes. It means taking little bits of ourselves and manipulating them as we attempt to discover new ways to explain ourselves to each other. My work incorporates process and material combinations to build things that examine the relationships between forms, and trace connections between disparate times and spaces. Simple materials are capable of exploring complex narratives and telling stories about the viewer as well as the maker. To this end, I investigate what certain materials have to say in both native and unexpected incarnations, as well as what any one substance might be capable of becoming.
I am exploring the use of narrative in my work in an attempt to expose commonalities in the world I share with my viewer. One of humankind's earliest forms of entertainment was storytelling — most current forms still utilize it. Oftentimes a child's earliest exposure to art is through the use of illustrations in a storybook. Art through the ages has been used to illustrate and explain historical narratives. I use forms and materials to convey information about my own personal narrative with the intent of eliciting an emotional or visceral reaction from the viewer.
