Kim Fox: November 2024
Kim Fox was born in New Wilmington, PA and raised in Stahlstown, PA, a rural area east of Pittsburgh. She earned her BFA in Printmaking from the College of Charleston in Charleston, SC, in 1994.
Her childhood in rural Western Pennsylvania informs her aesthetic, subject matter, and choice of materials. She has been making art and showing her work for over 20 years––beginning with more traditional painting and collage when she lived in Florida. After moving back to Pennsylvania and reclaiming her roots, she started to explore the regional arts and crafts from a more rural perspective. Over a decade ago she began working with vintage tins and salvaged wood, patchworking the tin in a way that felt like quilting.
Her tin quilts have been shown in “New Order: Collage Now” at the Future Tenant Gallery and at SPACE Gallery, in Pittsburgh; in Providence, RI, in the “Memory Quilt Collage” exhibit; in “Beyond the Bedcovers” at AIR Gallery in Brooklyn, NY; and in “Tin is the New Black” at the Stifel Fine Arts Center in Wheeling, WV. Solo exhibitions include “Handwork” at the Society for Contemporary Craft/BNY Mellon Gallery and “Superposition” at the Community Arts Center of Cambria County. She recently had work included in the exhibit “Stitching the Revolution: Quilts As Agents of Change” at the Mattatuck Museum in Waterbury, CT and was included in the Firelands Association for the Visual Arts “Artist as Quiltmaker XX”––the second longest running art quilt exhibition in the world.
I began working with vintage tin and salvaged wood in 2012––giving new life to things that are destined for a landfill is thrilling. We have an abundance of waste and an abundance IN waste. If you slow down and look you’ll find––and create––beauty in daily detritus.
I started by making large scale, patchwork, tin maps of the United States. Immediately I (and the people who saw my work) noted the similarity to traditional quilting in the way I was piecing my tin together. I have dabbled in embroidery, some cross stitch, and minor mending projects over the years but am, by no means, a needleworker or fabric artist; but this idea of quilting was planted in me like a seed.
I am interested in the intersection of the art of traditional quilting and the design aesthetic of quilting rendered with tin, wood, and modern technologies.
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Upcoming projects:
Kim will have 2 pieces in the upcoming AAP exhibition 114 x 114! Exhibition opens in-person November 14—December 23, 2024 and online at aapgh.org November 16, 2024—January 6, 2025
Kim is taking part in Green Leap, Monmade’s product development program fostering sustainable products for the built environment––where she is developing a new product.
Kim also plans to host open studios, small DIY exhibitions, classes etc. So far I've hosted two Sketchbook Hangs - ultra low key studio time to work on anything you have and want to bring in - sketchbook, ipad, knitting, writing, etc.
