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Boston
Sculptors Gallery is pleased to announce Stuff Moves,
a solo exhibition of Kim Bernard’s recent kinetic
sculptures. Fascinated
with movement, kinesthetics and the basic laws of motion,
Bernard’s kinetic sculpture synthesizes movement and
materials, informing works that are both experiential and
interactive.
“My present projects investigate the intersection
where the hard and fast science of physics collides with
sublime spirituality, playfulness and a pinch of humor.
This quest for the magical moment where awe is
directed at subjects more powerful than the objects and
the ‘aha moment’ happens in the hands rather than the
grey matter. These
recent kinetic works invite the viewer to engage the
sculptures’ motion, as an extension one’s own energy,
and break the no-touch rule of art.”
Quantum Revival, an installation of fifteen red balls
swinging from cables of increasing length that when ‘let
loose’ fall in and out of sync to a choreographed wave
dance. Harmonograph,
a kinetic wooden contraption that draws geometric lines,
when rods weighted with bowling balls move long arms that
hold a pen over a rotating surface.
Dance of Shive, also kinetic, consists of
twelve feet of elastic stretched between two columns
holding horizontal rods that when displaced by the viewer
triggers a wave of 200 red bouncy balls.
Tertuim Quid, a grouping of three 36”
diameter disks, spinning at low rpm, create the illusion
of three dimensionality and dizzying distortions.
Chakra Shimmy makes visible the
Hindu/Buddhist energy/force centers and externalizes them
as vortices at the same level height as the viewer's
chakras. Readymade
Color Wheel explores perpetual motion, which of course
doesn’t exist, and color mixing with a nod to Duchamp
and the subversive, playfulness of his work.
Complimentary Vibration plays with optical
vibrations, contrasting colors and physical phenomena.
Wave Phenomena, inspired by images of sound
vibrations made visible in the book Cymatics by Hans
Jenny, captures this vibrational matrix of sound patterns
in an installation of floating discs.
Kim
Bernard shows her sculpture, installations and encaustic
works nationally and has been featured in many exhibits,
some of which include the Art Complex Museum, Saco Museum,
Currier Museum of Art, Massachusetts College of Art and
Design, Montserrat College of Art, UNH Museum of Art,
Merrimack College and Phillips Exeter Academy and the 2011
Biennial at
the Portland
Museum of Art.
Her
work has been reviewed in the Boston
Globe and Art
News and
is featured in the recent publication 100
Artists of New England. Bernard
received her BFA from Parsons
in 1987, her MFA from Mass Art in 2010 and currently
teaches at the Maine College of Art and Plymouth State
University. Bernard
gives presentations, lectures and offers workshops
nationally as a visiting artist but makes her home and
work in Maine.
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