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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://www.worldpath.net/~kimma
rty/gallery.htm) 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 ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
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 ...
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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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Kim Wintje Biography:
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