Author Profile

Artist Bio
Kim Thoman has been exhibiting nationally and receiving grants for more than 35 years. She has art degrees from the University of California at Berkeley and San Francisco State University and was an art professor in the Peralta Community College District for over 30 years. Selected grants include the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of Taos, NM, Vermont Studio Center Residency Grant and Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Change Grant. Selected solo exhibitions include The Peninsula Museum of Art, CA, Mendocino Art Center, CA, Anderson Center for the Arts, IN, Saint Mary’s University Gallery of Minnesota, Monterey Peninsula College Art Gallery, CA, Stanford Art Spaces, CA, Bank of America World Headquarters Plaza Gallery, CA.

Artist Statement
My work has evolved over the year in series, each with distinct qualities, yet with an intimate relationship to one another. I’m motivated by a heightened awareness of dualities in the world and use the language of abstraction to explore connections and disconnections between my inner life and the external world. Evidence of the natural world hatches out in my mark. I’ll be showing drawings, paintings, sculpture, digital prints, mixed-media and works that combine paintings and steel.