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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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Collections:
Coming Soon!
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Commissions:
Coming Soon!
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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 body or a miniature robot, with utensil limbs and a box-shaped frame for a head. Like an all-purpose, fill-in-the-blank voodoo doll, the frame becomes a face when Wintje inserts a small, photocopied picture of her chosen candidate.....
.........Some of Wintje's match-ups are funny and unexpected, suggesting links between the most unlikely couples, like a weird, intellectual version of "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon." "Joan and Satan Discuss Hot Seat" is one such work. The idea of a discussion (such a civil interaction!) between the devil and the martyr pushes hard at the limits of our imagining. "The Cutting Edge with Bobbit and Van Gogh" disregards boundaries of time and place to partner Lorena and Vincent, two quirky characters with a shared penchant for chopping off appendages. The title seems to poke fun at the vernacular of the American media -- it sounds vaguely like a late-night, celebrity-driven, current-events TV chat show."
Foster's Daily Democrat
Tuesday, July 11, 2000
By JENNIFER HIGGINS
"Growing up, Kim Wintje said she made huts with pine boughs and snow sculptures that washed away in the sun. Now, 20 years into her career as an artist, she uses sheets of aluminum, wire, sticks, and paper to create her thought-provoking sculptures.......
.......When asked if she believes being a woman has influenced her work, Wintje replied that she has tried to not let it. Wintje said that she wants her work to not just be from a woman's point of view, but to be more universal. "I want my work to be strong enough to be a person that made it, rather than a man or a woman, Wintje said."
Boston Sunday Globe/ New Hampshire Weekly, Arts & People
March 1, 1998
By Mark Dagostino
"Art is a language that can connect all people," Wintje said, growing suddenly serious. "It can change things."
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