|
 Kimber
Berry received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from USC and her
Master of Fine Arts degree from Claremont Graduate University. She
has had many solo and group exhibitions.
Kimber’s
personal statement regarding her art is as follows:
“Recently, I have been focusing on the brush stroke, both
physical and illusion. The fluidity of paint has become my
narrative and I dare say, my obsession.
My
canvases are explorations of the painted surface, both through the
traditional application of paint and the use of new technology.
The semblance captured in the digitally altered photographs of
paint, interlaced with the physical paint creates a dialogue
between reality and illusion. I construct these hybrids of oil and
digital, old and new, in a time when we effortlessly glide from
the simulated environments of television and computers, back to
our realities intermittently throughout the day.
We often
exist within multiple environments simultaneously. My paintings
interlace, overlap and converge upon themselves in much the same
manner. With multiple realities co-existing and compressed into a
single frame and experience- my symbolic deconstruction,
defragmentation and reconstruction of paint and the brush stroke,
are the reflections of a society in which we live.
By
bringing together actual brush strokes with computer generated
images of them, my paintings challenge our perception of what is
real, and what is illusion. In doing so, I question and challenge
the established conventions of paintings.”
Artist Picture by: Michael J. Elderman
Orange Picture by:
Carla Conti Bender |
