KIM VAN SOMEREN \ INTO ITS OWN ECHO
13 OCTOBER - 3 NOVEMBER
OPENING RECEPTION 13 OCTOBER 6-9PM
GALLERY HOURS SATURDAYS 12-7PM (INCLUDING DAY OF RECEPTION)
Seattle-based printmaker Kim Van Someren builds wondrous architecture that defies physics. Her awkwardly traversing structures either lurch forward on impossibly small pins, or stand supernaturally affixed to the ground. Their impractically cantilevered extensions catapult themselves beyond the frame, while others appear to be untethered and hovering in the air. Some present themselves as complicated intertwined tiers of balconies, mezzanines, steeples, and ladders; strands of overlapping rope, drapes, and banners festively decorating their towers; or cascading down towards some unknown terrain.
Kim Van Someren's aesthetic engineering is as much a kind of wayfinding as it is the formal inquiry of a material body. For her solo exhibition, Into Its Own Echo, she amasses an inventory of prints on delicate tissue, or Japanese kitakata paper, to cut up and reuse as collage elements. In building these new forms, she works intuitively through the pleasure of composing and aligning her shapes towards the figure she wants, while allowing for a sense of visual adventure and deep contemplation. Her markmaking is key, a textural component that grounds the figure in space and adds substance, weight, and corporeal presence. As we play along with Van Someren in guessing what these almost-familiar objects might be, and to what purpose they serve, we engage with her sense of investigation and exploration into what is possible when such structures become animated.
Kim Van Someren is the Instructional Technician in Printmaking, Painting + Drawing and IVA at the University of Washington. She holds a MFA in Printmaking from the University of Washington (2004) and a BA from the University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse (2002); and has taught printmaking at Pratt Fine Arts Center, Kirkland Arts Center, the Frye Art Museum, the Seattle Arts Museum, and University of Washington. Van Someren has exhibited locally and nationally. Her work is included in several collections including the New York Public Library, the University of Iowa, the University of Washington and Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
For inquiries about Kim Van Someren's work, please feel free to contact us.
Kim Van Someren's aesthetic engineering is as much a kind of wayfinding as it is the formal inquiry of a material body. For her solo exhibition, Into Its Own Echo, she amasses an inventory of prints on delicate tissue, or Japanese kitakata paper, to cut up and reuse as collage elements. In building these new forms, she works intuitively through the pleasure of composing and aligning her shapes towards the figure she wants, while allowing for a sense of visual adventure and deep contemplation. Her markmaking is key, a textural component that grounds the figure in space and adds substance, weight, and corporeal presence. As we play along with Van Someren in guessing what these almost-familiar objects might be, and to what purpose they serve, we engage with her sense of investigation and exploration into what is possible when such structures become animated.
Kim Van Someren is the Instructional Technician in Printmaking, Painting + Drawing and IVA at the University of Washington. She holds a MFA in Printmaking from the University of Washington (2004) and a BA from the University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse (2002); and has taught printmaking at Pratt Fine Arts Center, Kirkland Arts Center, the Frye Art Museum, the Seattle Arts Museum, and University of Washington. Van Someren has exhibited locally and nationally. Her work is included in several collections including the New York Public Library, the University of Iowa, the University of Washington and Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
For inquiries about Kim Van Someren's work, please feel free to contact us.
