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New Show: 'Heartspace Hotel' at the Gladstone Hotel Jan 25– Mar 5, 2020

1/26/2020

'Heartspace Hotel' is my surprise solo show for 2020 (I haven't told anyone about it until the last week couple of weeks, because I didn't know about it myself, lol!).

Occupying the third floor of The Gladstone Hotel in downtown Toronto, an amazing boutique art hotel renowned for its high profile art & design events and exhibitions, this multimedia show features a new combination of my heart-based work seen at my 'Heartspace' and 'A Full Heart' solo exhibitions in 2019, some of which have only ever been shown once, and even a couple of pieces I've never shown before.

Artworks include my longest digital print ever at over eight feet long, shown only once before in March 2019 at Cedar Ridge Creative Centre's Studio Gallery.

Also: many more prints, three of my large scrolls with giant image transfers, fibre-based work, paintings, abstract photography, and two more digital prints I've only exhibited once before.

The opening reception coincides with the one for the second floor exhibition so it's sure to be a happening evening – hope you can make it!

Opening reception:
Friday Jan 31, 7-10pm
Artist talk: 7:30pm

Kim-Lee Kho: Heartspace Hotel
at The Gladstone Hotel
1214 Queen Street West
Toronto ON M6J 1J6

Front Desk: 416.531.4635 x 0
Dinner Reservations: 416.531.4635 x 7130

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Final Week to See Heartspace & Thank You to My Sponsors

11/17/2019

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Heartspace, my debut solo exhibition at The Red Head Gallery, is in its final week this Weds–Sat noon–5pm. I will be there for the final Saturday (Nov 23) all afternoon, or as close to it as I can manage!

After that the work comes down except for some of the small works which will be part of the group show that follows right after mine, #foxypopup.

Heartfelt thanks to my amazing sponsors!

I have thanked my sponsors in print at the show itself, but it's about time I thanked them here on my website.

They took some pressure off, lightening the load on my mind as I headed into, and worked away in, my studio, and they also made some things possible, thereby helping to make this show as interesting and diverse as my ideas called for.

Here are my generous sponsors:

Miriam Snell
Josef (Joe) Rich
Abigail Johnson
Joanna Czub
The Conspiracy to Promote Artists
Ruth Austin
Nancy Moniz
Lindsay Isaac
Anne Cook

I also owe a very special thanks to Kal Honey, who helps me in every way imaginable. Thanks also to Tim Marshall who along with Kal installed the show so I feel happy every time I look at it!

Installation views of Kim-Lee Kho: Heartspace at The Red Head Gallery through Nov 23, 2019.

My Heartspace solo exhibition is in its final week, continuing through Saturday, November 23 at The Red Head Gallery.

I'll be there in person on the final day, come and say hi! Open noon–5pm.

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Solo Exhibition: Heartspace Oct 30–Nov 23 at Red Head Gallery

10/10/2019

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You are invited to my first solo show at The Red Head Gallery, where I became a member in 2018.

For more information about the content of the show, click here to see the exhibition page.

This show would be less than I’d hoped if not for the generous support of its/my sponsors.
Many thanks to all of the individuals, and one organization, who chose to support this project!

If you are curious about sponsoring new work, in any amount starting at just $10, please visit this page (click here) to find out more.

My Artist Statement for 'Heartspace'

Heartspaces are not tidy. They are bloody and muscular and visceral. They throb with the rhythm of our life. As their chambers squeeze, then fill, they experience high and low tides in the space of a single beat.

Being human is not tidy. We are born from blood and viscera and the scream that gives us breath, while our deaths set in motion a rapid decay.
From beginning to end there is so much mess, in our lives, our psyches, our hearts, and our flawed selves. And yet there is so much opportunity for beauty, love, and connection.

We are an interconnected web, hidden, like the vast underground network that makes a forest. And like a forest, if we separate into smaller, divided sections, we all do more poorly.

In this show artist Kim-Lee Kho is interested in the visceral and emotional experience of our human hearts, of the life and connections we can find inside, outside and between our heartspaces.
Heartspace is part of her ongoing exploration of the human heart: as repository for emotions, as metaphor, as physical structure; using it as a gateway to what our hearts mean to us.

The work began with Kho’s fascination for three-dimensional medical models and antique anatomical illustrations on the one hand, and on the other with a stirring of emotion, which moved her hand to draw as a way of contemplating subject matter.

Heartspace explores these ideas in multiple media: drawing, painting, text, photography, digital, fibre, mixed media, film-based transfer prints, sculpture and the artist’s first zine.
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BIOGRAPHY

Kim-Lee Kho is a self-taught multidisciplinary Canadian artist, and former graphic designer/art director, exploring subjective experience as a gateway to broader human concerns. The daughter of both a scientist and an artist, Kho’s process and interests combine both influences, in sometimes unexpected ways.

Kho has participated nationally in exhibitions, residencies, and mentorships including at Renann Isaacs Contemporary Art (RICA) in Guelph ON, You Me Gallery in Hamilton ON, the Living Arts Centre in Mississauga ON, Evergreen Cultural Centre in Coquitlam BC, Shadbolt Centre for the Arts in Burnaby BC, and as part of a two-year travelling exhibition for the Art Gallery of Grande Prairie in Alberta. She is a multiple Ontario Arts Council grant recipient.

A feature artist in both the 2016 and 2018 In Situ multi-arts festivals, Kho developed large-scale installations in multiple media and live drawing performances for both events, held at the Small Arms Inspection Building (SAIB) in Mississauga ON. Her 2015 solo exhibition Chains Unlinked a multi-layered immersive installation exploring internal and external barriers through temporary mural drawing, video, textile, and sculpture, was at the Art Gallery of Mississauga.

In addition to her creative practice, Kho is a popular and knowledgeable arts instructor. She teaches at Fleming College’s Haliburton School of Art + Design, and Neilson Park Creative Centre in Etobicoke. She also teaches workshops, gives talks, live demonstrations, critiques, and juries exhibitions, at the invitation of numerous art groups, centres and galleries in Ontario.

Heartspace is Kim-Lee Kho’s debut solo exhibition as a member of The Red Head Gallery.

October 30 to November 23, 2019
Opening Reception:
Saturday, November 2, 1–4pm
with artist talk at 2pm

The Red Head Gallery
401 Richmond St. West
Ground floor, Suite 115
Toronto, ON M5V 3A8

Gallery hours:
Weds–Sat 12–5pm

Watch for sneak peeks on social media!
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Looking Back at My Own Early Foray into Contemporary Portraiture

5/13/2019

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I’ve been thinking a lot about contemporary portraiture lately, having just given a new talk on the subject, followed by a new weekend workshop.

I’ve been drawing or painting or otherwise making portraits my entire life, and it remains an important aspect of my work.

Nowadays a lot of my portraits are photo-based, as you can see in my posts and website. I got thinking about when I first started working on photo-based and photo-digital portraits, and realized it was for my first solo show as an adult, entitled Face[t]s of Valerie, in 2007. All of the portraits were of my friend Valerie, alone or sometimes in combination with me.

This image was kind of the title piece for the show, and the deepest I explored digitally in it, (the show was multimedia, because I am nothing if not a “multi” kind of artist, lol!). It’s called The Many Facets of Valerie.

In it you can see numerous shots from the bigger shoot, allowing me to show what interested me: the living face of my subject, its variability and expressiveness. “I am large, I contain multitudes” wrote Walt Whitman, as we all are.

So it’s a seminal, developmental piece. It started a train of thought that hasn’t stopped since, though it has branched off and grown in many directions.

19"x13” digital print. And yes, it’s available.

Does this kind of post, deep-diving into an individual piece, interest you? If so, please let me know in the comments.

The Many Facets of Valerie by Kim-Lee Kho is a photo-digital portrait that was seminal in my development. From 2007.

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My Hearts in Place Installation, Part Two

12/16/2018

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A screenshot from the video below showing an early stage of the installation process. Artwork: Kim-Lee Kho. Video: Nettie Seip 2018

Instead of writing more in this second blog post about my installation at the In Situ 2018 festival, (to see part one click here), I will speak to you via the video below, shot and edited by my charming colleague photographer/videographer Nettie Seip, to whom I owe many thanks!

You'll see me on-site in the room during the early stages of installation as I talk about the work and my intentions for it. Then you get to tour through it at night with it fully installed while the festival was in progress.

Please take a look and let me know what you think!

Perhaps after the holidays I will put together some time-lapse video shot over the three nights I spent drawing the Hearts in Place mural in front of the festival audience. I will upload it to my YouTube channel – please click on the link and if you like it, consider subscribing :-)

Video shot and edited by Nettie Seip, www.nettiephotography.com

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Happy New Year 2017!

1/4/2017

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May we all shine our light a little brighter and spread a little more love this year.
Thanks so much for your interest, enthusiasm and support, it means a lot.
Wishing you (and your family) all the best in 2017.

Happy New Year 2017! Photos: above, © Kal Honey 2016 www.kalhoney.ca; below, Kim Lee Kho 2016.

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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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Three Giant Scrolls Get an Airing

6/28/2016

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Above: Standing in front of "Double Happiness, Three's a Crowd" scrolls at Art-Spread in Port Credit, June 18/19. Photo by Sandra Robson.

Top left: Drawing Louis Armstrong for the #dailyheroes series live at the same event, with another artist's (Nisreen's) drawing of an imaginary face showing in the foreground. Photo by Meena Chopra.

Left: Louis Armstrong drawing completed. I chose a serious photo of him to work from because his glorious smile so easily overshadows the man's genuine genius.

It was a busy and fun weekend in Port Credit (Mississauga) on June 18 and 19 at Art-Spread where I was one of over a dozen artists/artisans showing and demonstrating what I do.

Lots of people I know came to visit (only one had ever seen the scrolls live before), and if you were one of them, thank you.

Below: The scrolls provided a focal point for the whole show in that vaulted space. Photo by Sandra Robson.

Left: The whole group of us! Photo courtesy Sandra Robson.

This was the first time the scrolls had been on display in four years! I have fresh ideas on where I might exhibit them next. If you have any suggestions, please let me know in the comments below or via my contact form in the menu above.

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Everyday Beauty

5/7/2016

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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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Missing Europe, Remembering Maastricht

3/27/2016

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Happy Easter to those of you who celebrate it.

This is otherwise not a season-specific post, but maybe the sunshine and weather today at home is reminding me of my beautiful day in Maastricht, The Netherlands, last month. A beautiful mediaeval town in the south of the country, where I spent a day walking around with my backpack and camera, visited an art program and bought some health food (as I always must to accommodate my allergies).

Here is a collaged panorama shot of the boat hotel where I stayed, on the river Maas (aka Meuse), as I embarked on my day's walking.

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New Show: 'Heartspace Hotel' at the Gladstone Hotel Jan 25– Mar 5, 2020

Final Week to See Heartspace & Thank You to My Sponsors

Solo Exhibition: Heartspace Oct 30–Nov 23 at Red Head Gallery

My Artist Statement for 'Heartspace'

Looking Back at My Own Early Foray into Contemporary Portraiture

My Hearts in Place Installation, Part Two

Happy New Year 2017!

Happy Thanksgiving (Here in Canada)!

Three Giant Scrolls Get an Airing

Everyday Beauty

Missing Europe, Remembering Maastricht

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