ABOUT

2022 Exhibition at Atelier Grognard Rueil Malmaison, France
BIOGRAPHY
American female artist, Kim Weissenborn, is best known for her contemporary expressionist portrait and figurative paintings. Kim began drawing early in childhood. She began focusing on portraits at age 10. Shortly after graduating Parsons School of Design in New York, she began painting portraits on commission, and exhibiting her paintings. Many of Kim’s paintings consist of figures with an emphasis on storytelling. She draws inspiration for her figurative work from her love of fashion, her training as an illustrator and earlier artists like Egon Schiele, Edvard Munch, Winslow Homer , Pierre Bonnard, Claude Monet, Mary Cassatt, Alice Neal, and Lucian Freud . Many of Kim's paintings depict captured moments in time, drawing on the emotional aspect of the scene. Kim has been a professional Artist and art teacher for over 40 years. Currently residing in France and the US, Kim continues to paint and exhibit her work. She hosts artist workshops in France and has a YouTube channel, which features her painting lessons.
STATEMENT
The ugly, raw, and ordinary parts of humanity are beautiful to me. We as people are unfinished and in perpetual process. I want my paintings to mirror this condition which is why I appreciate the initial strokes on the canvas more than the finished work. To leave my work unfinished or to have it feel unfinished is like undoing or unlearning and often feels counterintuitive. Yet it is the basis and structure behind my work.
EXHIBITIONS
Chapelle Saint-Léonard, Croissy, France 2022
Atelier Grognard Museum Paris, France 2022
M.Maison Gallery Vero Beach, FL USA 2020
Legends Gallery Chatham, NJ USA 2019
Christ Church Vero Beach FL USA 2017
Vero Beach Museum USA 2015
Vero Beach Museum USA 2014
Vero Beach Museum USA 2012
Monterey Virginia USA 2002
Martha Lincoln Gallery FL 1999
Vero Beach Magazine July 2017
TC Palm March 2106
TC Palm March 2015
32963 Article May 2014
32963 Magazine Article May 2013 Page 22
Vero News.com May 2013
The Vero Beach Magazine January 2013
32963 Magazine 2013
TC Palm 2012
Vero News 2012
Vero Beach Businesses.com