Link to short video of selected work created by Abeles 2005-2011
Talks. Panels, and Workshops
6/19 - 6/26/10 Juror for the exhibition, Blue Planet, presented by Pacific Region Women's Caucus for Art at SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco
10/7/10 An Evening of Art, Dance, and Discussion with Kim Abeles and Sri Susilowati, Laband Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles
10/21/10 A series of lectures in Boulder, Colorado, organized by EcoArts Connections and the various institutions for Abeles' talks:
--------Oct 18 - Manhattan Middle School, all school assembly
--------Oct 18 - University of Colorado Boulder, art and environmental studies students
--------Oct 20 - NCAR (National Center for Atmospheric Research), scientists and staff
10/21/10 Lecture, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
10/29/10 Bellarmine Forum Reception and Gallery Talk with Kim Abeles, Laband Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles
11/15/10 Gallery Talk with Kim Abeles, Laband Art Gallery, panel discussion and viewing of the film, No Impact Man, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles
2/4/11 Full STEAM Ahead! Classroom Techniques for Leveraging California's Creative Economy, TOWN HALL LA and Corwin Host Conference on Best Practices in Public Education, Abeles is moderator for the panel, Effective Tools - Arts, Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles
3/5/11 Walk-thru and receptions at the exhibition, Pearls of Wisdom: End the Violence, Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles
3/26/11 Walk-thru and panel discussion at the exhibition, Pearls of Wisdom: End the Violence, Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles. The panel is Ending Violence with Art and Activism, moderated by Sandra Mueller with Kim Abeles, Suzanne Isken, Suzanne Lacy, Cathy Salser, Nathalie Sanchez and Barbara T. Smith
9/11/11 (3-6pm) Fundraiser/Event for Breaking in Two: a Provocative Exhibition on Motherhood, curated by Bruria Finkel, with a film produced by Sabine Sighicelli, Arena One, Santa Monica, CA, part of Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980
10/16/11 (2-4pm) Pearls of Wisdom workshop lead my Kim Abeles and Sandra Mueller (Arts Advocate for A Window Between Worlds) at the Skribal Cutural Center, Los Angeles
11/4/11 Lecture, Idyllwild Arts, Idyllwild, CA, as part of the exhibition, Kim Abeles
Exhibitions
2/18/10–7/12/10 Kim Abeles-Arrival, Los Angeles International Airport, Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA) in partnership with the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs.
4/1/10–5/29/10 Speak for the Trees, Friesen Gallery, Seattle, WA
4/9/10–7/1/10 An Idea Called Tomorrow, curated by Erin Clancey and Michele Lee, California African American Museum, Los Angeles
5/1/10–6/30/10 Resurrections:ECO-logy and ECO-nomy, curated by Jennifer Heath, Canyon Gallery, Boulder Public Library, CO
6/12/10–10/3/10 World Maps, Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles
6/12/10–10/3/10 Art Shack, curated by Greg Escalante, Laguna Art Museum, CA
6/12/10–6/22/10 Pearls of Wisdom, West Gallery, California State University Northridge, an exhibit and workshops in collaboration with A Window Between Worlds. Funded by the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs.
7/17/10–8/28/10 Signs of the Forest, curated by Jean Clad, Arena One Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
8/19/10–10/21/10 Hypothesis, curated by Daisy McConnell, Gallery of Contemporary Art, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
9/11/10–11/1/10 Kim Abeles: Art and Activism, curated by Carolyn Peter, Laband Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles
9/18/10–11/10/10 Material Girls-Abeles, Easton, Stone and Sunday, SCAPE (Southern California Projects and Exhibitions), Corona Del Mar, CA
10/2/10–12/4/10 Make:Craft, curated by Tricia Watts, Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles
11/11/10–1/16/11 (Re-) Cycles of Paradise, curated by ARTPORT, Centro Cultural de España, Mexico City, The exhibition coincides with a special program of the CCEMX contributing to the United Nations Climate Conference COP16 to be held in Cancún from 11/29 - 12/10.
11/12/10–11/30/10 FORMA MENTIS, curated by Gemma Sonego, Gallery Aryai, West Hollywood
11/17/10- 5/13/11 Dialog 21, curated by Barbara Benish, Gallery Califia, Hora, Horaždovice, Czech Republic
11/17/10–12/17/10 39NOW, curated by Sophia Louisa, d.e.n. contemporary, Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood, CA
12/4/10- 5/13/11 New Acquisition: Enchanted Forest by Kim Abeles, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
12/11/10–12/31/10 Soft, curated by Edith Abeyta, Future Studio, Los Angeles
12/18/10 - 5/14/11 Collecting Contemporary Art: The FUNd, ASU Art Museum, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
2/26/11–6/12/11 Currents: Art and Environment, curated by Gayle Paul, Portsmouth Museum, Virginia
3/2 - 3/31/11 Pearls of Wisdom, Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, an exhibition by Kim Abeles in collaboration with 800 domestic violence survivors and A Window Between Worlds. Funded in part by: The James Irvine Foundation; The Department of Cultural Affairs, Los Angeles; The Durfee Foundation; The Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles; The Los Angeles County Arts Commission; an,d The Women’s Foundation of California
3/31/11- 4/9/11Smart Art Press Multiples of Parade, Track 16, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
3/2011 (Re-) Ciclos del Paraíso, curated by ARTport, Museum Jardin Borda, Cuernavaca, Mexico. Funded in part by the Mexican Environmental Ministry
7/8/11- 8/9/11Speak for the Trees, curated by Andrea Harris, Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavillion, Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA
7/9/11- 9/5/11Speak for the Trees, curated by Jeannie Denholm, SCAPE (Southern California Art Projects and Exhibitions,, Corona Del Mar, CA
8/3/11- 9/2/11 (Re-) Ciclos del Paraíso, curated by ARTport,Science Museum of Morelos, Cuernavaca, Mexico
9/14- 2/26/11Pearls of Wisdom: End the Violence, curated by Karina White, Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles. Exhibited in conjunction with Half the Sky: Turning Oppression in Opportunity for Women Worldwide; Pearls is a project by Kim Abeles in collaboration with survivors of domestic violence and A Window Between Worlds.
9/17/11- 11/2/11International Biennial Festival of Portrait - Drawings and Graphics, International Portrait Gallery, Tuzla, Bosnia and Heregovina
11/4/11- 12/2/11Kim Abeles, Parks Exhibition Center, Idyllwild Arts Academy, Idyllwild, CA
2/11/12- 4/14/12 Breaking in Two: a Provocative Exhibition on Motherhood, curated by Bruria Finkel, with a film produced by Sabine Sighicelli, Arena One, Santa Monica, CA, part of Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980
1/17/12- 8/8/12 Kim Abeles: the interconnectedness of things, Natural History Museum, University of Colorado, an exhibition and series of projects organized by EcoArts Connection, Boulder, CO
5/2012- 6/2014 Ignite! The Art of Sustainability, curated by Kate Davies, an exhibtion of Exhibit Envoy, a new contemporary art initiative sponsored by The James Irvine Foundation.
Abeles' work is included in these selected books and videos- A list of exhibit catalogs is available upon request.
Robert Hirsch, Exploring Color Photography: From Film to Pixels, Focal Press, 2011
Andria Friesen, Editor, Speak for the Trees, Marquand Books, 2009
Robert Hirsch, Photographic Possibilities-the expressive use of ideas,materials & processes, Focal Press 2009
Lucinda Barnes, Measure of Time, University of California, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, 2007
Karen Jacobson, Editor, See/Hear - Museums and Imagination, California Natural History Museum, 2006
Mark Alice Durant and
Thomas McGovern, Essayists, Witness Protection, Robert V. Fullerton
Art Museum,
California State University,
San Bernardino, 2006
Peter Selz, Art of Engagement-Visual Politics in California and Beyond, University of California Press, 2005
David Spalding, Chemistry in Art, CD-Rom, Hyle: The Journal of Art, Chemistry and Philosophy, Germany 2003
Eugenia Butler (Editor), Book of Lies III, Limited edition book 2003
Brandon LaBelle, Ken Erhlich and Stephen Vitiello (Editors), Problematics of Site-Surface Tension, Errant Bodies Press 2003
Lewis MacAdams (poetry) and Kim Abeles (images), The Family Trees, Blue Press 2001
Steven Leiber, Extra Art: A Survey of Artists’ Ephemera1960-1999, California College of Arts and Crafts/Smart Art Press 2001
Susan Ressler, Women Artists of the American West, McFarland Press 2001
Mark Johnstone, Contemporary Art in Southern California, Craftsman House, Australia 1999
Lisa Mann, Producer, Public Sitings (All Space in Los Angeles County, (Video) Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA 1998
Cornelia Lauf and Clive Phillpot, Artist/Author Contemporary Artists’ Book,D.A.P., New York 1997
Maya Koyo, Producer, Loft District (Video) 1998
Deborah J. Haynes, The Vocation of the Artist, Cambridge University Press 1997
Lucinda Barnes, Miyoshi Barosh, William S. Bartman and Rodney Sappington (Editors), Artists - Twelve Contemporary American Artists Interview Twelve Contemporary American Artists, A.R.T. Press 1996
Paul Von Blum, Other Visions, Other Voices - Women Political Arts in Greater Los Angeles (Foreward by Lucy Lippard) University Press of America, Inc. 1994
Abeles, Karen Moss, and Susan Silton, Kim Abeles: Encyclopedia Persona A-Z, A 15-Year Survey, English edition by Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles 1993; Editions in Spanish and Portuguese published by the United States Information Agency 1996 Awards: ID Annual Design Review, 1994; American Center for Design-The One Hundred Show,1994; Type Directors Club,1994
Erica Suderberg, Kim Abeles: Of Scattered Histories, Objects and Their Collision Course, Monde-Los Angeles, Editions Autrement, Paris 1993
Bruria Finkle and Melinda Wortz, Art and Spirituality-Eight Women, Yesterday and Tomorrow: California Women Artists, (Sylvia Moore, Editor), Midmarch Press, New York 1989
Lucinda Barnes, Editor, Kim Abeles, A.R.T. Press (Essay by Patterson Sims, Interviewed by Michael McMillan) 1989
Larisa Muravina, Producer; Arkaday Yedidovich, Videographer, The Image of St. Bernadette - An Installation by Kim Abeles (Video) 1987
Commissions and Public Art
Here I am, an activity book for kids and familes who make use of T.H.E. Clinic in Los Angeles. Funded in part by the Connell Foundation. 2011
Pearls of Wisdom: End the Violence, Kim Abeles in collaboration with A Window Between Worlds is a project intended to help stop domestic violence and to empower families. This is a 2-year project that will be exhibited at the Korean Cultural Center in Los Angeles during March 2011. The exhibition, publication, blog, workshops and related events pay tribute to the 20th anniversary of A Window Between Worlds. Funded in part by The James Irvine Foundation; The Department of Cultural Affairs, Los Angeles; The Durfee Foundation; The Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles; The Los Angeles County Arts Commission; Target; and The Women’s Foundation of California.
Travels Forward, a series of 16 banners created in collaboration with Loyola Marymount University's ARTsmart for the grounds of the LAUSD Leadership Magnet in Marina del Mar, California. This is a permanent artwork to be mounted September 2010.
Smog Collectors and Paper Person, permanent installations commissioned for the California Science Center's new building, Ecosystems. March 2010
Commissioned cover art for the book, Interplay: How a Museum Inspires Wonder, Discover and Learning Through Interdisciplinary Community Partnerships, Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Foundation, Los Angeles. The artwork portrays the unique association of the partners, their affiliated associations, and their projects. 2009
Time-Line-Space, commissioned by the Los Angeles Unified School District for the Central Los Angeles New Learning Center; Ambassador Hotel historical site; Entrance to Library, Completion date: September 2010
Smog Collectors, commissioned by Deutsche Bank Art, New York and Frankfurt, 2008
Thru the Earth, funded in part through the City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department for the Community Magnet School, Bel Air, California; Entrance pathway, 2006
Luminous Windows (Hill Street Lighting), commissioned for The City of Los Angeles Department of Transportation, Hill Street Transit Lighting Project, Los Angeles CA, 2006-2009
Rotunda Mapping and Valley Storybenches, commissioned by the City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department for the Marvin Braude San Fernando Valley Constituent Service Center; Design Team with Rios Associates, 2003. Recognition of the public art component by Americans for the Arts' 2004 Year in Review
Illuminated Fig Leaves, commissioned by the Percent for Art Program For the City of Pasadena for the Marriott Hotel and Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, 2002
Hill Street Timekeeper, Sidewalk Medallions, and From Your Seat, commissioned by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's Art for Rail Transit program; Artist for the Design Team of the Hill Street Metrorail Corridor Project, 2001
Wall of Knowledge and Literary Lanterns, commissioned by the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs; Artist for the design team with Reibsamen, Nickels and Rex Architects for the Panorama City Public Library, California, 1999
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