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Kim Bruce
Born: 1957
Resides: Redwood Meadows, Alberta
Born and raised in Calgary, Alberta Kim was influenced by an ingenious father who was always finding alternate uses for objects and a mother with an amazing sense of the aesthetic.
Kim started her career in interior design and established a design firm in 1983 specializing in store planning and image development. Throughout these years, she pursued formal art instruction through a varied curriculum, studying under many established artists at The Alberta College of Art & Design and The University of Calgary. She has been exhibited at The Triangle Gallery, Profiles Public Art Gallery and Harcourt House, as well as, R & F Gallery in New York state and has twice been included in the collection of The Alberta Foundation for the Arts.
Selected Exhibitions
2008
The Whyte Museum, Banff, Alberta; July 30 - August 28, 2008
EyeQ - Alternate venue April 8 - May 15
Clothesline – Leighton Center, June 1, 2008
Summertide - Artfirm Gallery, Calgary, Alberta, New work by Gallery Artists, July 17 - August 16, 2008
A Seasonal Salon -Artfirm Gallery, Calgary, Alberta, Gallery Artists, Nov (date to be confirmed)
2007
Snap to Grid - LACDA Los Angles Center for Digital Art, Sept 13 - Oct 4, 2007
About Face – ArtFirm Gallery, Calgary, Alberta, June 9 – July 6 (solo)
Home Bodies - Profiles Public Art Gallery, St. Albert, Ab, June 7 – 30
3 person show with Bev Tosh and Elizabeth Clark, (by invitation)
Summertide - Artfirm Gallery, Calgary, Alberta, Gallery Artists, July 25 -Aug 31
A Seasonal Salon -Artfirm Gallery, Calgary, Alberta, Gallery Artists, Nov 22 -Dec 31
2006
Give & Take, The Gallery at R & F, Kingston, New York, Dec 2 to Jan 27
4 person show with Valerie Hammond, Judith Kindler & John Maul (by invitation)
Taking Liberties, Harcourt House Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, May 25 - June 17
Dips, Tychs & Polyptychs, Gallery Lacosse, Winnipeg, Manitoba, May 12 - 25 (solo)
Articulate – Artfirm in conjunction with The Triangle Gallery Winter Art Stroll, Calgary, Jan 20 - Feb 10
Flux – Art Ark Gallery, Kelowna, B.C. – December 1 - January 30
2005
onEdge – ArtFirm, Calgary, Alberta, October 22 – November 10, (solo)
Mixed Bag – Arts on Atlantic, Calgary,Alberta, November 4 –27
A Mystery of Flesh (Figuratively Speaking) – Untitled Art Society in conjunction with the Triangle Gallery, Calgary, Alberta, Jan 20-22
2004
All about Eve – Untitled Art Society, Calgary, Alberta, April 1 – 30, (solo)
The Anonymous Art Event – Art Firm, Calgary, Alberta, November 19
The Studio – Triangle Gallery, Calgary, November 4 – 6, 2004 to 2008
Taking Liberties – Red Deer and District Allied Arts Council, Red Deer, Alberta
July 8 – Aug 27
Clear Cut: the under story – Bowman Center, Lethbridge, Alberta,
May 22 – July 10
Clear Cut: the under story - Red Deer Museum, Red Deer, Alberta,
Oct 3 – Nov 21
MiniArture* – Triangle Gallery, Calgary, Alberta, January 15 - March 13
(by invitation)*Denotes Catalogue
2003
Tactile, Artspace, Calgary, Alberta, October 10-23
Summer Salon Show, Garrison Gallery, Calgary, Alberta, June 20 –Sept 2,
2002
Urban Dialects, Artspace, Calgary, Alberta, August 2002
2001
Open Windows, Devonian Art Gallery, Untitled Art Society, Calgary, Alberta January 3 – 21
Disposition, The Point of Art, Calgary, Alberta, Sept 27 – Oct 17 two person show with Susan Whyte
2000
Parallel Lines*, Leighton Centre, Burns Visual Arts Society, Calgary, Alberta
November 4 - 17 (juried) *Denotes Catalogue
Bibliography
Breakfast Television: A-Channel, Calgary; Frameworks Foundation featured work
Mari Saano, Edmonton Journal, “Domestic goddesses still have stereotypes to sweep” June 8, 2007
Olav Pokne, “Challenging Gender Roles”, Saint City News, St. Albert, June 8, 2007
Michelle Falkenstein, The New York Times, “Creating Unusual Paints, and Teaching Artists How to Use Them”, December 31, 2006
Christa O’Keefe, See Magazine, “Ladies on Lady”, May25-31, 2006 #652 Edmonton
Wes LaFortune, ffwd, “It’s a small world”, Vol 9 No 10, Feb 12, 2004 Calgary
Seka Owen, Artspace News; “Tactile” Issue #6, Oct/Nov/Dec 2003
Karoline Czerski, “Who says size doesn’t matter?”, The Gauntlet, Vol 44, Issue #26; Jan 22/04
Arts Alive, CKUA Radio; MiniARTure Interview January 12, 2004 (curator)
The Big Breakfast Show; A-Channel; MiniArture Interview; January 15, 2004 (curator)
Channel 10 News; Shaw TV; MiniArture Interview; January 16, 2004 (curator)
Collections
The Alberta Foundations for the Arts - 2003 & 2004
Private Collections, Canada, Australia, Netherlands