Artist Statement:
For the last 35 years, Kim Eubank has continued to evolve as a multimedia artist. She works in copper and vitreous glass enamel while also exploring printmaking (linocut and intaglio) and painting in acrylic, cold wax medium and oils. Kim’s current body of work is large-scale figurative painting. She focuses on human connection and disconnection illustrated in a gritty pop art style, using flat figures and bright colors with bits of collage to tell a story and convey emotion.
Her current works are original oil paintings on tar paper mounted on wooden panels, framed in hand fabricated aluminum frames. Multiple layers of oil paint are applied with wedges, spatulas and brushes. Kim carves deep into the layers with a scribe to create texture and depth. Her imagery is informed by her experience as a woman who must co-exist in today’s modern world. Relationships with others as well as the environment create beautiful harmony and uneven discord. Kim enjoys painting figurative works that tell an open-ended story, where the viewer brings their interpretation from life to the piece. She hopes that you, the viewer, will observe her paintings as a story unfolding. Think of her pieces as Holden Caulfieldsque- they will not change over time, yet you will interpret them differently as you grow through your life.
Artist Bio:
Kim graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA with a BFA in Jewelry and Glass in 1996. She made and sold silver-smithed, semi-precious stone jewelry at art fairs in the eastern half of the US. In 1998, she created The Metal Quilt, adding luminous, translucent color to copper by kiln firing a thin layer of vitreous, powdered glass enamel to copper in a 1500-degree kiln. She ran a full-scale business, with multiple assistants, selling through galleries, corporate art reps and national juried art shows. By 2010 she tired of the business, went solo and began to play with mixing media; painting, printmaking, encaustic, cold wax medium, oils and metal sculpture. Kim’s intaglio printmaking work was nature-inspired. Monoprints floating atop rich earthy colors felt like ethereal, Polaroids from another planet. Kim hand-pulled the prints and mounted them on wooden canvases that were stained, collaged and sealed in encaustic wax. By 2015, nature imagery gave way to human-scale figurative work. Kim carved and hand-printed large format linocuts, creating a printmaking series with a midcentury Pop art vibe. In 2016, she collaborated with Jonah Green to create Rustbird Modern, a metal sculptural business. They designed a body of sculptural metalwork highlighting the juxtaposition between the industrial nature of steel and the translucent properties of kiln-fired enamel. Select pieces from rustbird modern are still available, even though the series is no longer in creation. Contact Kim for details. Thank you for supporting independent artists.