Places of Refuge: An Artist’s Year in Batik
October 28 - December 31, 2022 📍Confluence Gallery
ARTIST: Kim Gordon
OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, October 28, 6:00 - 8:00pm
Please join us for the Opening Reception! Meet the artist, learn the process of batik, try your hand at the process with a ‘make and take’ and demo from the artist, Kim Gordon. The reception is family friendly and free to the public.
ABOUT THE EXHIBIT
In Places of Refuge: An Artists Year in Batik, Kim Gordon uses outdoor experiences as a source for later studio work. It allows her to spend quiet time in a place while the light changes in the sky, birds call and fly over, and the wind itself creates sounds in the grasses and leaves and carries the smells of the earth. She is constantly fascinated by the effect of light on form, defining and eroding it. This immersive experience of plein air instills a strong memory of the living landscape. It seeds the creative work that flows from it.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Kim Gordon lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and works as an artist, designer/illustrator and teacher. A life-long artist, primarily as a painter, she paints plein air and in the studio. Gordon first discovered watercolor batik in 2017 while on an artist residency and for the past several years has worked intensely with this new twist on an ancient art form. Gordon has a long-term passion for the environment and has volunteered with the St. Paul Audubon Society, the Northstar Chapter of the Sierra Club, and the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency She is a member of Outdoor Painters of Minnesota and The Batik Guild.
Instagram: @KimGordonFineArt