Kim Boekbinder
Art Warrior
I burn things beyond recognition, punch holes where they shouldn't be, shatter glass, smash clocks, break bones. I electrocute myself frequently while building machines to love or leave. My art is a shotgun wedding between the expected and the bizarre. My process is a dance with chaos.
I build because it is in my bones.
"Biography"
Kim Boekbinder was born somewhere in the woods of Quebec Canada to a gypsy mother and wandering father. She grew up with three siblings as formidable as she. She built and crafted, created and dreamed form an early age. She studied many artistic things when she was young and was very physical: always climbing trees, performing aerials on the gymnastic size trampoline, dancing, chopping wood, hauling buckets of water through snow to the barn, farming, mushroom hunting, running away from home and sliding down the banister.
At the age of 12 Kim wrote and directed her first play, which sadly was never performed in a true theatre and the script was eaten up in a tragic garage fire. In her teens she discovered her fascination with cameras and now has a large collection of old and wonderful film cameras from 1901 to modern day cheap plastic husks. In her late teens she wanted to be a film maker and even moved to Vancouver to attend the Vancouver Film School.
In Vancouver Kim got sidetracked and instead of attending film school she managed to somehow write a business plan, get a number of ill-advised loans, and buy a restaurant. The restaurant was called "The Cat's Pajamas" and enjoyed a moderate success on the weekend when the tables were packed with young hipsters come to enjoy the great food and live music. The restaurant didn't work out very well and one day, after lawsuits, bankruptcy, pain, and too much hard work, Kim drove her 1984 Toyota Tercel down the west coast and landed in Carmel Ca where she pretty much stayed for several years (I say pretty much because Kim, being the daughter of a gypsy and a wanderer, never stays anywhere, even when she does.)
In Carmel Kim attended Monterey Peninsula College where she met the wonderful teacher Gary Quinonez who taught her sculpture, or rather helped her realize that she was already a sculptor. Kim has been in many group shows, has curated shows, and someday plans to have a solo show though at the moment she is pursuing an ill advised life in music.
Kim loves her art, her cat, her lover, her family, the fact that you are reading this sentence, and the fact that most people never will. She hopes that someday she will be able to support herself with her creative endeavors, as she loves nothing more than to create worlds of beauty in which to invite others to play.
Kim is available for commission work and would love to create something for you. A graphic, a sculpture, a song, or a world......
Art Exhibitions of 2006
12/02/2006 - 02/10/2007 - The Main ARTery Gallery - 453 West J Street Benicia, CA 94510
11/02/06 - 11/30/06 Gallery North - Carmel, CA
08/25/06 - 11/03/06 Nido Gallery - Moss Landing, CA
04/28/06 - 06/30/06 Outer Edge Studio - Monterey, CA
12/11/05 - 02/15/06 The Post Ranch Inn - Big Sur, CA