Talks, Panels, and Workshops 2012

Guest Lecturer

Keimyung University, Daegu, South Korea
Natural History Museum, Boulder, Colorado
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
Naropa University, Boulder, CO
Art and Language Arts Program, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Skirball Museum of Art, Los Angeles

Workshops

Artistry series Workshop for Teachers, Visual and Performing Arts Orange County Department of Education

Wearable Landscapes, Urbanartscape @ 7th Project, Los Angeles, mural organized by arts>Brookfield and
Downtown LA Art Walk; Abeles with students from Woodcraft Rangers

Panels

Moderator, Building Our Economy Through Education Technology, Full STEAM Ahead! Conference,Town Hall                         Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles

Panelist, Honoring Women’s Rights, Women’s Caucus for Art, Steinbeck Center, Salinas, CA

Panelist, Artspace, College Art Association National Conference, Los Angeles

 

Exhibitions 2012

solo

Syo Gallery, Daegu, South Korea
National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO
Natural History Museum, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO

installations in group shows

Women and Water, LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions) in cooperation with swissnex
                       San Francisco (Exhibition: (re-) cycles of Paradise curated by ARTPORT_making waves)
Pearls of Wisdom: End the Violence, Abeles in collaboration with A Window Between Worlds. Korean
                        Cultural Center, Los Angeles (2011); Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles (2012)
                        Funded in part by The James Irvine Foundation. (catalogue)

group exhibitions

Swept Away: Dust, Ashes and Dirt in Contemporary Art and Design, Museum of Arts and Design, New York
                         (catalogue)
Do Not Destroy: Art, Trees, and Jewish Thought, The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco
                        (catalogue)
Green Acres: Artists Farming Fields, Greenhouses and Abandoned Lots, curated by Sue Spaid,
                        Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio (touring exhibition)
The Nature of Things, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
Ignite! The Art of Sustainability, curated by Kate Davies, University of California Davis Design Museum,
                        Davis, CA; this is a project of the Green Museums initiative of the California Association of
                        Museums, (touring California until 2014)
Breaking in Two: a Provocative Exhibition on Motherhood, a Getty Pacific Standard Time exhibition at
                        Arena One, Santa Monica, CA (catalogue)

 

Abeles' work is included in these selected books and videos

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

Public Art for Anderson-Munger YMCA, Los Angeles; Community Redevelopment Agency. 2013

Public Art for King Blvd. Gateway, Los Angeles; Percent-for-Art funds administered by the Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles. 2013

Here I am-Estoy aquí, an activity book, and Health Cards for kids and familes who make use of T.H.E. Clinic in Los Angeles. Funded by Ralph M. Parsons Foundation, Good Works Foundation, and the Green Foundation. 2011-12

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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