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** This piece also incorporates non-traditional salvaged materials. The three narrow panels are of 1.25" rigid pink foam most commonly used for insulation. Much of the yellow in the composition is Pantone paper applied to the wood panel with glue, pins and nails. Pantone paper, commonly used in Graphic Design, is a plasticated paper used to designate a specific hue.


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The landscape we observe today is one inherited from the past: a history of additions, subtractions, restorations and reconfigurations. Whether our surroundings are urban or rural, our uses and intentions for them are constantly changing. We introduce materials, we remove others.  We excavate and we replace. The land recovers and adapts, absorbing new additions, covering old exposures. 


These paintings explore this relationship of action and reaction, found and imposed.
Construction materials are introduced, forcing the developing landscape to adapt. Preserved areas are exposed, revealing history underneath. Resolved areas are altered or scraped away.  Panels are moved into new positions or into different paintings entirely. Spaces are abandoned, dissimilar areas adjoined, foreign elements absorbed or rejected.


The resulting compositions range from graceful adaptation to abrupt disturbance. Elements of ugliness and beauty, history and novelty, disruption and resolution reflect the information each of us absorbs as we move through our own surroundings. They invite us also to consider the cumulative history of our spaces which are constantly in flux.
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Reconfigured: Seven Painting

Kim Curtis

United States

Painting, Oil on Wood

Size: 64.5 W x 48.5 H x 1 D in

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** This piece also incorporates non-traditional salvaged materials. The three narrow panels are of 1.25" rigid pink foam most commonly used for insulation. Much of the yellow in the composition is Pantone paper applied to the wood panel with glue, pins and nails. Pantone paper, commonly used in Graphic Design, is a plasticated paper used to designate a specific hue. RECONFIGURED The landscape we observe today is one inherited from the past: a history of additions, subtractions, restorations and reconfigurations. Whether our surroundings are urban or rural, our uses and intentions for them are constantly changing. We introduce materials, we remove others. We excavate and we replace. The land recovers and adapts, absorbing new additions, covering old exposures. These paintings explore this relationship of action and reaction, found and imposed. Construction materials are introduced, forcing the developing landscape to adapt. Preserved areas are exposed, revealing history underneath. Resolved areas are altered or scraped away. Panels are moved into new positions or into different paintings entirely. Spaces are abandoned, dissimilar areas adjoined, foreign elements absorbed or rejected. The resulting compositions range from graceful adaptation to abrupt disturbance. Elements of ugliness and beauty, history and novelty, disruption and resolution reflect the information each of us absorbs as we move through our own surroundings. They invite us also to consider the cumulative history of our spaces which are constantly in flux.

Details & Dimensions

Multi-paneled Painting:Oil on Wood

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:64.5 W x 48.5 H x 1 D in

Number of Panels:2

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Originally from California, Kim Curtis designed and constructed costumes throughout the San Francisco Bay area and the US for fifteen years including a six-year stint co-running the Costume Crafts department for the San Francisco Opera. At SFO Curtis created the armor, masks, jewelry, head-dresses and animals for some of the world's most renowned designers and performers. In 2003 she moved to Illinois and began a parallel career in Painting. Her work can be seen in collections both stateside and abroad. Curtis currently teaches in the Department of Theatre at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and continues to work in theater, fine art and illustration from her studio in Urbana, IL.

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