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'Hearts in Place': My Installation at In Situ 2018, Part One

11/30/2018

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'Hearts in Place', my room installation at the 2018 In Situ Festival. Most of the room is shown, but you can't see what's at the back centre, behind the "veined" panels, nor what's behind me as I photographed this. All artwork: Kim-Lee Kho, this photo: Kim-Lee Kho
Part two of this blog series is up!
​To go directly to it, click here.


The 2018 In Situ multi-arts festival took place November 8–10 at the Small Arms Inspection Building (a former WWII munitions factory now partially refurbished as a creative hub) in Mississauga, Ontario.

'Hearts in Place' was a whole-room installation comprised of: ten 7-foot high scrolls, eight of which were transfer-printed (a hand-pulled process), two were hand-painted; two paper-and-fibre "veined" panels (centre); two veiling textile panels; one built-onsite sculpture/assemblage which you can see a sliver of light from at the centre of this photo; and the wall behind me as I photographed the room panorama was a mural drawing which I drew a portion of as a live performance each of the three evenings of the festival.

Like the first In Situ festival in 2016, this was an extraordinary experience and a creative high, but with the benefit of central heating and running water!

I am still exhausted from the experience of preparing all of this new work, performing and then taking it all down just days later. As a result I will keep this entry shorter than I might have, but will share with you some photographs. Thanks go to the numerous – generous – photographers and friends, (all credited individually), who made this possible, documenting when I could not.

​Many thanks to the many people who came out to experience the festival and visited my room! If you were there, please let me know what you thought in the comments below.
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Photo: Kim-Lee Kho 2018
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Photo: Jennifer Vong
Kim-Lee Kho stands in front of a 8-foot whimsical heart sculpture made of rope lights, curving silver tubes, metal mesh and tree branches, and next to a very large close up of a face, backlit.
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Hearts in Place installation artwork by Kim-Lee Kho, 2018. Photo (left): Sandra Robson, photo (above): Kal Honey.
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Photo: Gabriella Bank from Sanborg Productions Inc
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Photo: Elaine Whittaker
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Report: Live Painting Demo at My 'RADIANTS' Exhibition

5/21/2017

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We had an enthusiastic group at Saturday's painting demonstration at Otto Art gallery in Toronto. I showed how I approach painting two series: my 'Aroundeds' and the 'Radiants' series that gave the show its title.  I will continue to work on the 'Radiant' demo painting and post photo updates here when ready.
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Here I am just starting the demo of painting #2 which is part of the Radiants series.
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First stroke is complete and I'm listening to a question from the audience.
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Radiant #12? It will be if my continued work on it turns out all right!

Sandra Otto, the gallerist, shot video of most of the event, which you can watch below in two parts.

As for the 'Arounded' painting, here are progress shots of the drying process so you can see how the painting reveals itself over time as it dries. I will continue to post more until it is pretty much 100% clear.
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Fresh! The wet new 'Arounded' painting.
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Several hours later the thinnest parts are already starting to clarify.
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Two days + some hours later, more drying progress: still plenty of white but it's less opaque than before.
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Four days + some hours after the demo and you can see translucency in all of the gel. The thickest parts will take more time, the thinnest are totally clear and there is lots that's in-between.
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Here is a detail view after four days.
Please check back for even more updates/photos and links!
And if you found this at all interesting, please give this post a like or a tweet – it helps a lot, thanks!
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Happy Thanksgiving (Here in Canada)!

10/10/2016

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A little dose of food-related everyday beauty for the holiday: onion skins like fallen petals. "Another Kind of Skin" (since I do so much work with images of human skin). Enjoy!
Everyday Beauty, Another Kind of Skin by Kim Lee Kho 2016
Everyday Beauty: Another Kind of Skin by Kim-Lee Kho 2013/16
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Preparations Underway

7/8/2016

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Hope you had a great holiday weekend (if you're in North America at least).

​I'm currently buried deep in preparations for the Acrylics: Explore, Express & Experiment course I teach every summer in Haliburton. So much still to do, not enough time to write a proper post, but I thought I would share a sample panel-in-progress with you (pictured above).

​I will update this post with the finished result... after the pour! Should be fun, fingers crossed :-)
Sample panel-in-progress by Kim Lee Kho 2016.
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Everyday Beauty

5/7/2016

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Photograph of everyday beauty by Kim Lee Kho, 2016 ©
So often I notice something but don't record it. At home the other day though I did manage to photograph something that caught my eye.

Light and shadow; transparency, colour; shape and form; what more do we need for a bit of everyday beauty?
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Layering Up Nature Photographs Digitally with Non-Digital Sources

3/3/2016

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In response to a 7-day nature photography challenge on Facebook, I've been layering up and altering some photographs (couldn't stick with straightforwardly produced ones for long!) and thought I'd share them with you on the blog.

Left: Royal Tree 2, shot in England last month.
Right: Nature Through a Fence, based on ivy I shot this fall, layered with a close-up of my Insubstantiated drawing/sculpture/installation as well as a detail from a painting of mine.

There is a lot of beauty when you can see the details – just click on the images to see them larger. Do you find these interesting? If so please let me know in the comments :-)
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New Painting Now Showing!

1/31/2016

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'Hearts are Wild' acrylic painting on wood panel by Kim Lee Kho, 2016. This is a detail view only.
Here is a detail from my new painting "Hearts are Wild" now showing in 'RED' an exhibition which opened yesterday (Saturday January 30) at Renann Isaacs Contemporary Art in Guelph, Ontario. 

'RED' is a group show of square-foot paintings by 50+ artists, all united by the colour red. 

Among the group are artists I know and admire such as Kal Honey, Cole Swanson and Seth as well as luminary Ron Shuebrook, so I'm in excellent company! 

If circumstances weren't preventing me, I would be working on more paintings in this vein (so to speak). I'll just have to figure out how I can keep thinking along these lines but in my sketchbook instead until I can get back into my studio.

If you have a chance to visit the show, please let me know what you think, whether in the comments below or via the contact form or on social media. It's worth the drive to Guelph!
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Brand-New Painting

1/10/2016

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This little painting is fresh off the... well, it wasn't painted on an easel, so I guess I have to say table. 

I'm too tired to be able to say much about it beyond what's in the caption, but it relates to my abiding interests in shape, colour relationships, layering and paint application.

I'd like to do more using the same process (one I've only dabbled in before), so we'll see what the schedule will allow. Hope you enjoy it :-)
Untitled, acrylic on paper, 9" x 12", 2016. © Kim Lee Kho
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New Year, New Show, of Newer Paintings

1/4/2016

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L to R, top to bottom: Around Again #1; Summer Spin; Broken Through; Radiant Salsa; Tempest; Magic Hour. Paintings by Kim Lee Kho.
Happy New Year!

To start 2016 off right, I thought I'd share these paintings they are in the faculty show at Neilson Park Creative Centre, in Etobicoke (Toronto), which runs today to Jan 31.

I've asked the centre to hang them in pairs as you see here, except for one painting (not shown here) that will hang solo.

If you click on any of these images you will be taken to a larger view of it on my Flickr page, where you can also see some nice close-up details.

All of these are small, 12" x 12", canvases or wood panels.

I use this size as a kind of painting journal, where I try things out, have painterly thoughts, make discoveries.

One of the newer (for me) ingredients I worked with in three of these was fluorescent colour. I've also scraped, scratched, masked, texturized, crackled, dry brushed, glazed and impastoed (though that's not really a word, is it?).

I hope you'll have a chance to visit these paintings in person.

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One Painting's Phases

8/19/2015

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COMPLETE! '27 Phases' by Kim Lee Kho | acrylic on wood panel, 24" x 24", 2012–2014
This acrylic painting has been built up in layers of textured, "open" or broken colour, creating a kind of transparency. The circles and squares create a strong pattern structure but none of the edges are too regular, too crisp, which keeps the painting dynamic.
 
Just photographed today before sending it off. Click on the image above to see a better view of it.

EARLIER STAGES:
Today is the first day that '27 Phases' is on public display – online and at Neilson Park Creative Centre, in the Hall Gallery.

Started in 2012, I got close to finishing but got busy and work stalled. It was some time before I could get back to enriching and re-balancing these colour relationships, made complex by all layers being open to the ones below.

In 2014 with the Offence/Defence show behind me, I was finally able to complete the painting.
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First layers for '27 Phases' by Kim Lee Kho
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Detail view of '27 Phases', first layers
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'27 Phases' nearing completion.
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