Kim Sullivan ///
Born ///
Moorhead, MN
Grew up in Casselton, ND
Blue Silo ///
Since 2015
Education ///
• MFA, Painting and Drawing, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
•Undergraduate Business major, Visual Art minor, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, CO
Medium ///
Painting, Collage, Drawing
Kim’s studio is open and bright with a feel of a small gallery as you first enter. A large number of her work is displayed in a salon-style along two main walls. It is organized by warm and cool tones of blues and greens with many black and white studies intermingled. Sizes are consistent and fit on the wall like a square-puzzle game where you slide one piece around until you connect them all by some similar theme. Kim’s current work feels like a focused study in abstracting a specific family of shapes. Like seeds, they feel inspired by the most familiar organic elements found in nature. She takes a simple composition and manipulates these shapes in a variety of ways on her many surfaces. Her loose and expressive drawing skill is an important part of this body of work. It gives the shapes a textured quality that takes advantage of a monochromatic palette. Her studio space is wide-open and only gets broken up by a few tables and a sitting area at the far end. In a corner toward the back is a very small popup table with kitchen supplies and a microwave underneath for that occasional Hot Pocket (I assume). Against the back wall, just beneath the windows, sits a very long table where paints and tools are sprawled out- ready to go. At another end of the studio, square studies hang like a tile wall just above the stacks of books and magazines for whatever references and inspiration might be waiting.
Black & White ///