Kimberly Rowe
My paintings and installations come out of an attitude of exploration, improvisation, and experimentation. What I make is sort of like visual jazz, but with elements of funk, blues, rock, alternative, punk, classical, and world music all being part of the vocabulary. My aesthetic has a musicality to it, and rhythm comes into play on a regular basis. My work tends to be physical, and is often big or at least it reads big even when I make small things. I am not really interested in depiction. My materials and the way that I use them are meant to speak for themselves. Any marks that I make come out of a need to impart a visceral expression through moving paint around. Color is important. And I like to play with perception and paradox.
