Kim Holleman
Kim Holleman (born July 23, 1973 in Tampa, Florida) is a mid-career contemporary artist best known for her interdisciplinary approach which includes: Sculpture, Utopian Architecture, Public Art, Architectural and Landscape Model making, Installation, Photography, Drawing and Collage. She attended The Cooper Union in New York and Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, Holland. She also spent time at Bet Za'lel Academy of Art in Jerusalem, Israel as an undergraduate exchange student. Kim continues to live and work in New York, where the majority of her work is shown. Kim has resided in Bushwick, Brooklyn since 2000, making her an early pioneer in the Bushwick Artist's wave. She currently maintains a studio at Myrtle Avenue.
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[edit] Biography
Kim Holleman was born in Tampa, Florida. Her maternal grandfather, Neal Lozins, was a NASA rocket engineer who worked on solid rocket booster design for the first space shuttle missions. Her paternal grandfather, Nathan Dale Holleman's aviation machining company, Dale Manufacturing, Inc. fulfilled contracts for The United States Government, Pratt and Whitney, Boeing and NASA. Both of her grandfathers worked for or on NASA projects at the onset of the original space program. Holleman credits this to her focus on science, namely the confluence of nature, art, architecture and engineering. Holleman's work is, "inspired by the complexities of the design in nature and the environment".[1]
[edit] Art
Holleman’s work addresses concepts of utopia and dystopia, utilitarianism, environmentalism, and ideas about perfect form. She examines how the forms used in the architectural reality of our world connect to our ideas about the natural environment and our relationship to conceptual and physical space, contamination and waste. In order to present something new born out of something familiar, she infuses collected and found objects with new meaning by manipulating materials, controlling visual language, and inverting symbology.
Kim’s first solo show in New York: Law of the Land at Black and White Gallery in Williamsburg, was R.C. Baker’s Best In Show- The Village Voice (2008)[2] and was reviewed again with a feature in the arts section by Alan Gilbert.[3] Major shows include: In-Habitat Front Room Gallery (2012)[4], BMW Guggenheim Lab Screenings (2011), Museum of (Un)Natural History at Work Gallery (2011), Bushwick Biennial Nurture Art (2009)[5] A Sense of Place The Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (2004), and at The John Michael Kohler Arts Center (2006). Her most notable work, Trailer Park: A Mobile Public Park was shown at The Storefront for Art and Architecture on Lafayette Street for the show, PORTable (2006)[6] and was featured in the METRO, L Magazine,[7] and other media. Her solo show, The Artificial Homemaker at The Rietveld Pavilion (1996), an all-glass show space in Amsterdam, was filmed for the documentary De Cultuurshok: Foreign Artists in Amsterdam (1996) that aired on Dutch National Television in Holland that year.
The opening event for Kim’s second solo show Circa: 2012 at White Box in July 2008 recorded a record-breaking 1,000 people in attendance. Kim created this show after winning First Place in the inaugural Artists Wanted Competition sponsored by Third Ward and Artists Wanted.[8] Circa: 2012 was selected by Papermag as the Word of Mouth show to see that week along with After Nature at The New Museum.[9]
In 2009, her work was on view at Nurture Art in the Bushwick Biennial,[10] and was exhibited at the The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art new LEED platinum Humanities Building on Cooper Square in January, 2010, for the show, "Rights of Passage".[11]
[edit] Notable Works
Kim Holleman is perhaps best known for her seminal work, Trailer Park: A Mobile Public Park, which debuted at The Storefront for Art and Architecture and has since been shown in many locations around New York.
Trailer Park is a portable, natural, public park housed inside an 18' x 8’ x 7' mobile Coachmen Travel Trailer. The interior is fully planted, designed, and treated as a "real" park. Hand-laid brick planter beds containing lush shrubs, trees, and plants are complimented by masonry laid in the same tradition as public parks. Concrete and wooden benches provide seating. Skylights allow rain and air to pass to the plants below.
Since it's first showing at The Storefront For Art and Architecture, Trailer Park has shown in Chelsea, Soho, The Lower East Side, The Cooper Union, The Supreme Court at Foley Square and continues to evolve as a community based project.
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.artworldigest.com/Interviews/kimholleman.html
- ^ http://www.villagevoice.com/2008-04-08/art/massive-mini-attack/
- ^ http://www.villagevoice.com/2008-04-29/art/eco-chamber/
- ^ http://www.artcat.com/exhibits/15991/
- ^ http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/bushwick-biennial/
- ^ http://www.storefrontnews.org/archive_dete.php?objID=16&img=reg_1
- ^ http://www.thelmagazine.com/newyork/art-in-the-city-mini-escapes-for-the-city-bound/Content?oid=1136608
- ^ http://www.artistswanted.org/site/featured-artist/featured-exhibition-kim-holleman/
- ^ http://www.papermag.com/blogs/2008/07/this_week_in_art_openings_afte.php
- ^ http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/11/in-brooklyn-a-basel-for-beginners/
- ^ http://cooper.edu/rites-of-passage/
