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Kimber Berry

Her paintings for the past seven years have been an exploration of the painted surface. Through the use of the computer and digital photography she creates dialogs engaging not only the history of paint, but how technology has a new role in it.
Growing up in Los Angeles and being surrounded by over the top advertising and the glitz of Hollywood instilled a love of illusion. A desire to explore the psychological experience of living in a society so bombarded with visual noise and simulated environments. Her paintings interlace, overlap and converge upon themselves in much the same manner of existing in multiple environments at once. She uses the fluidity of paint and the brush stroke as a narrative tool to recreate the psychological compression of stimuli found in our society.
While viewing one of her hybrids we effortlessly glide from the painted surface to the digital photographs of paint, from reality to illusion.
This Los Angeles artist is defining and pushing not only the traditional boundaries of painting, but photography as well.

NOTE FROM THE ARTIST
Recently, I have been focusing on the brush stroke, both physical and illusion. The fluidity of paint has become my narrative.
My canvases are explorations of the painted surface, both through the traditional application of paint and the use of new technology. The semblance captured in the digitally altered photographs of paint, interlaced with the physical paint creates a dialogue between reality and illusion. I construct these hybrids of paint and digital, old and new, in a time when we effortlessly glide from the simulated environments of television and computers, back to our realities intermittently throughout the day.
We often exist within multiple environments simultaneously. My paintings interlace, overlap and converge upon themselves in much the same manner. With multiple realities co-existing and compressed into a single frame and experience- my symbolic deconstruction, defragmentation and reconstruction of paint and the brush stroke, are the reflections of a society in which we live.
By bringing together actual brush strokes with computer generated images of them, my paintings challenge our perception of what is real, and what is illusion. In doing so, I question and challenge the established conventions of paintings.

EDUCATION
Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA
Master of Fine Art, 2001
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Bachelor of Fine Arts, 1998

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008 - "Liquid Landscapes", CSU Studio Channel Islands Art Center, Camarillo, CA
2007 -"New Paintings", Studio K, Pomona, CA
2006 - “Paint!“, Gallery 825/LAAA, L.A., CA
2003 - Market Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2001 - East Gallery, Claremont Graduate UniversityClaremont Graduate University, (site specific painting)
2000 - White Gallery, “light - paintings”, light installation, Claremont Graduate University
2000 - White Gallery, “light- environment”, light installation, Claremont Graduate University
1998 - Helen Lindhurst Gallery, “moments of mystery”, University of Southern California

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 - "sketchbook project", MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Washington DC
2009 - Bridge Art Fair NY, Elisa Tucci Contemporary Art, NY
2009 - East Festival, AUGUST Art, Wharf Studios, East London, UK
2009 - "ARTRA", curated by Max Presneill, Venice, CA
2009 - "sketchbook project", MODA Museum of Design, Atlanta, GA
2008 - "Landscapes of the Mind", Bridge Art Fair Miami, Elisa Tucci Contemporary Art, NY
2008 - "In the Abstract", LAX/ Southwest Airlines Terminal, LA, CA
2008 - "Sum of Parts", dba256 Gallery, Pomona, CA
2008 - "New and Improved", Los Angeles Center for Digital Arts, Los Angeles, CA
2008 - "The American Lifescape", dba256 Gallery, Pomona, CA
2007 - "Pink Show", SOHO Myriad, Atlanta, GA
2007 - "Come out for art", Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA
2006 - Oxnard College, “Hot Shots”, Oxnard, CA
2006 - Los Angeles County Museum of Art,( 4-person exhibition) Los Angeles, CA
2006 - “Consumerism & Product #2”, Gallery Revisited, Los Angeles, CA
2006 - “Biannual”, Gallery 825/LAAA- South/the Mike Napoliello Gallery
2006 - “Recent Acquisitions Exhibition “, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
2006 - “Festimage”, Chaves, Portugal
2006 - “Gem “, Gallery 825/LAAA, L.A., CA
2005 - “Petite Works”,Gallery 825/LAAA at Bergamont Station, Santa Monica, CA
2005 - “2005 National Open Exhibition “, Long Beach Arts, CA
2005 - Riverside Art Museum, CA
2005 - San Diego Art Museum, CA
2005 - Laguna Beach Art Museum, CA
2005 - The Millard Sheets Gallery, Pomona, CA
2005 - “2005 L.A. exhibition “,Los Angeles Municipal Gallery & Eagle Rock Center For The Arts
2005 - “In the Abstract”, Gallery 825/LAAA, L.A., CA.
2004 - “Petite Works II”, Gallery 825/LAAA at Bergamont Station, CA
2004 - “The F-Stops Here”, Gallery 825/LAAA, CA
2004 - Korean Cultural Center Art Gallery, L.A ., CA
2004 - “Digitally Propelled Ideas”, CA State Polytechnic University, Pomona
2004 - “Winners Invitational Exhibition “, Long Beach Arts Gallery, CA
2004 - “Women’s Festival of the Arts”, Second City Council, Long Beach, CA
2004 - Huntington Beach Art Center, CA
2003 - “Open Show 2003”,Juror: Karin Higa, 825 gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2003 - Andrewshire Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2003 - “Petite Works”, 825 Gallery at Bergamont Station, Santa Monica, CA
2003 - Long Beach Arts, Long Beach, CA
2003 - “And now a word from our sponsor”, Gallery 825/LAAA, L.A., CA
2003 - “The Lowe Gallery Invitational”, The Lowe Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2003 - “America”, The Second City Council, Long Beach, CA
2003 - Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA
2002 - “Formulations”, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum
2002 - “Valedictories”, Raid Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2001 - Peggy Phelps Gallery, Claremont Graduate University
2000 - “Felt”, East Gallery, Claremont Graduate University
1999 - “Go-Between”, DA Art Center, Pomona, CA
1998 - Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California