Kim Curtis
Oil Painting - Abstract and Figurative
contact:
505 W. John Street
Champaign, IL 61820
217-351-6421
kimbacurtis@sbcglobal.net
website:
www.kimcurtis.net
artist statement
I take my cues from nature. We are constantly surrounded by a visual abstraction which, because our minds are so quick to understand it, we rarely appreciate. I am inspired by the natural world's movement through time; its colors, its layers, its residues, its variables. I feel compelled not to duplicate it, but to imitate it.
The medium of oil painting is its own element in my work; my paintings are as much abstract formal structures as they are "landscapes."
Taoists say that to apply a name to something leads to forgetting what it is. Through the re-focusing of my sources and in solving the problems of painting, I re-see these things I'd similarly named and neglected.