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Kim Kopp
Exhibit Dates: April 2 - May 28, 2009
Regular gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 8:00 a.m - 5:00 p.m, closed holidays.
Location: Centennial Center Gallery, Kent City Campus, 400 West Gowe Street, Kent, Washington 98032 map
Kim Kopp’s paintings are built upon the techniques of drawing, printmaking and bookbinding. Her work gains physical structure through the layering of paper and paint. Emotional structure is enhanced by embedding imagery, so that what might have been a discarded layer emerges as a shadow. Echoing time and tide’s transient nature, Kopp’s artistic technique requires using erasers as often as brushes – she takes away pigment in one spot, only to add it back in another. Speaking about her choice of imagery, Kopp relates:
“While wandering, I may come across something - a darting bird, twisted kelp washed up on the beach, or the impression of wind whispering through fallen leaves. Back in the studio, I attempt to seize the substance of these moments before they dissipate, and make them part of me.”
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1. windfall (pinnate/yellow), graphite, dry pigments, acrylic on Japanese papers over panel, 40” high x 30” wide, copyright Kim Kopp, 2009 (photo credit: Frank Huster)