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Artist Statement:
For the past 20 years, I have
been making sculpture.
Incorporating many fabric
techniques, I use recycled
metal, wire, and paint, to
create sewn metal sculptures
about pollution, habitat loss,
complacency, human rights,
extinction, and many other
environmental and political
issues. My work has been part
of collaborative shows, and
one person exhibitions. I want
my work to get into peoples
psyches and keep them thinking
about the images for days,
weeks.... I feel that whenever
people think and ultimately
talk about ideas the world
changes. I maintain a cyber
gallery
http://personalpages.tds.net/~k
immarty/ of my sculpture
thanks to a NH State Council
on the Arts, Individual Artist
Fellowship received in 1998. I
also take time every year to
work as, artist in residence,
in New Hampshire's schools.
In 1993, an accepted
collaborative
proposal submitted to Inez
McDermott,
then director of New England
College
Gallery, Henniker, NH,
resulted in a
significant change in my
direction as
an artist and the materials I
use. The
proposal gave me an
opportunity to
collaborate with another
artist, to
explore new materials, and to
exhibit
the year's work at the
gallery. The
years exploration focused on
the
tradition of ritual ...
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Artist Galleries:
Kim Wintje cyber gallery
http://www.worldpath.net/~kimma
rty/gallery.htm
Davidson & Daughters
Contemporary art gallery,
Portland, ME...
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Artist Reviews:
The Portland Phoenix
September 7 -
September 14, 2000
by Jenna Russell
"Wintje's medium, "sewn
metal," sounds like an
oxymoron, but it's an
effective, unexpected,
junk-yard method of
assemblage, scraps, and
squares of metal punched with
holes and stitched with twists
of wire. Each sculpture
approximates a simple ...
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Collections:
Coming Soon!
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Commissions:
Coming Soon!
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Exhibitions for Kim Wintje:
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2003 one-person exhibition titled, from twisted metal at the Galletly Gallery, New Hampton, NH. Upcoming: George Marshall Store Gallery, York, ME; Momentum; April 5-may 11; GPCF finalist exhibition. Edwards Gallery, Holderness, NH; with my friend Jane Kaufmann; fall 2003
2002 The Firehouse Gallery,The Day We Saw the Edge of the Earth: Artists respond to 9/11/02 Damariscotta, ME
2001 small group exhibition titled, Not So Still Life: Animated Alchemy in Contemporary Art, Yo Gallery, Manchester, NH
2000 two person exhibition, The Society of Arts and Crafts, 101 Arch St./34 Summer St., Boston, MA. and Davidson & Daughters/ Tin Ears and Feet of Clay
1999 two person exhibition titled, SCULPTURE WITH AN ATTITUDE, Gibbs Gallery, Arlington, MA.
one person exhibition titled, aluminum icons, Davidson & Daughters Gallery, Portland, ME. May 11- June 5, 1999
1998 one-person exhibition titled, HOME IMPROVEMENTS/ thought provoking shelves, doors, and repair tools, Davidson & Daughters Contemporary Art Gallery, Portland, Maine.
1997 two-person exhibition, AVA Main Gallery, Lebanon, NH.
1996 one person exhibition titled, TOOLS TO REPAIR THE PLANET, N.W. Barrett Gallery, Portsmouth, NH.
1994 two-person exhibition titled OUT OF SIGHT at New England College Gallery in Henniker, NH.
1993 Barn Gallery in Ogunquit, Maine.
1992 two-person show titled, ONE OF A KIND at the Lawrence Academy Gallery in Groton MA.
1991 UNH and Keene State gallery exhibition titled, The Artist and the EnvironmentNH a Collaborative Response.
1990 three-person show titled, SCULPTURES WITH TALES, League of NH Craftsmen Gallery in Concord, NH.
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