Kim Bruce
Phone: 403.949.2693
Resides: Redwood Meadows, Alberta
While pursuing formal art training through a varied curriculum at The Alberta College of Art & Design and The University of Calgary Kim owned and operated an interior design firm from 1983 to 2000. Kim Bruce transitioned into a full time art career in 2000 and has been exhibiting consistently since.
Using materials from distinctly different sources, Kim makes succinct yet subjective statements that reference the dichotomies that exist in our world and within us. Juxtaposing contrasting materials and opposing viewpoints, bittersweet contradictions concerning life’s fragility come to light and into visual and ethereal balance. She looks to unveil natural beauty and create work that provoke musings about the state of physical, emotional and spiritual well-being.
Kim Bruce has been published in the New York Times in conjunction with a group show at the R & F Gallery in Kingston, N.Y. She has been reviewed in See Magazine, FFWD Magazine and The Gauntlet. Exhibitions include “Pulse: Alberta Society of Artists at 80 Years” at the Triangle Gallery of Visual Arts, and the Sculptors Society of Canada in Toronto, Ontario; The Windows at the Epcor Center for the Performing Arts, as well as Harcourt House & VAAA Galleries in Edmonton, Alberta. Her work is in the collection of the Alberta Foundations for the Arts and is privately and publicly collected throughout Canada, Australia, and the Netherlands.
Kim Bruce resides and works in the foothills of Alberta just outside the City of Calgary.
Up Coming Exhibitions
2013 – Pins & Needles – BANNISTER GALLERY at RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE, Providence, RI http://www.ric.edu/bannister/ Tentative dates are end of June to end of July, 2013.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2012 Negative Space – Dade Gallery, Calgary, AB, March 3 – April 15
2011 Off the Wall – Visual Arts Alberta Assoc., Edmonton, AB, April 28 – May 28
2010 DiverCity – Epcor Center for the Performing Arts, Calgary, AB, October 4 – January 3
2009 Face the Figure – ArtFirm Gallery, Calgary, AB, November 26 – December 23
2007 About Face – ArtFirm Gallery, Calgary, AB, June 9 – July 6
2006 Dips, Tychs & Polyptychs, Gallery Lacosse, Winnipeg, Manitoba, May 12 – 25
2005 onEdge – ArtFirm, Calgary, AB, October 22 – November 10,
2004 All about Eve – Untitled Art Society, Calgary, AB, April 1 – 30
Selected Group Exhibitions
2011
Pulse: Alberta Society of Artists at 80 Years*, Triangle Gallery of Visual Arts, Calgary, AB, July 7 – Aug 25, Mary-Beth Laviolette Exhibition Curator
Bring the Noise*, Jarvis Hall Fine Art, Calgary, AB, July 5 – Sept 2
Leighton Center, Juried Members Show, April 23 – May 29
ASA Gallery – Lougheed House, Calgary, February 2 – March 27
B&W – DaDe Art & Design Lab, Calgary, March 11 – April 22
*Denotes Catalogue
2010
“New Members” – Sculptors Society of Canada, Toronto, December 8, 2010 – January 7, 2011
Sculptors Society of Canada 11 Annual Emerging Sculptors Exhibition, Toronto, Aug 10 – Sept 10
2009
Visage – Artfirm Gallery, Calgary, 4 person show with Carl White, Robert Pierce, Laurie Steen, January 8 – February 7
Diversity – Visual Arts Alberta, Edmonton, June 18 – July 18
2008
Seasonable Salon – Artfirm Gallery, Calgary, Alberta – Gallery Artists, November 27 – December 23
The Whyte Museum Shop, Banff, Alberta; July 30 – August 28
EyeQ – Alternate venue April 8 – May 15
Summertide – Artfirm Gallery, Calgary, Alberta, Gallery Artists, July 17 – August 16
2007
Snap to Grid – LACDA Los Angles Center for Digital Art, Sept 13 – Oct 4
Home Bodies – Profiles Public Art Gallery, St. Albert, Ab, June 7 – 30
3 person show with Bev Tosh and Elizabeth Clark
Summertide – Artfirm Gallery, Calgary, Alberta, Gallery Artists, July 25 -Aug 31
A Seasonal Salon -Artfirm Gallery, Calgary, Alberta, Gallery Artists, Nov 22 -Dec 31
2006
Give & Take, The Gallery at R & F, Kingston, New York, Dec 2 to Jan 27
4 person show with Valerie Hammond, Judith Kindler & John Maul
Taking Liberties, Harcourt House Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, May 25 – June 17
Articulate – Artfirm in conjunction with The Triangle Gallery Winter Art Stroll, Calgary, Jan 20 – Feb 10
Flux – Art Ark Gallery, Kelowna, B.C. – December 1 – January 30
2005
Mixed Bag – Arts on Atlantic, Calgary,Alberta, November 4 –27
A Mystery of Flesh (Figuratively Speaking) – Untitled Art Society in conjunction with the Triangle Gallery, Calgary, Alberta, Jan 20-22
2004
The Anonymous Art Event – Art Firm, Calgary, Alberta, November 19
The Studio – Triangle Gallery, Calgary, November 4 – 6, 2004 to 2008
Taking Liberties – Red Deer and District Allied Arts Council, Red Deer, Ab, July 8 – Aug 27
Clear Cut: the under story – Bowman Center, Lethbridge, Alberta, May 22 – July 10
Clear Cut: the under story – Red Deer Museum, Red Deer, Alberta, Oct 3 – Nov 21
MiniArture* – Triangle Gallery, Calgary, Alberta, January 15 – March 13
*Denotes Catalogue
2003
Tactile, Artspace, Calgary, Alberta, October 10-23
Summer Salon Show, Garrison Gallery, Calgary, Alberta, June 20 –Sept 2,
2002
Urban Dialects, Artspace, Calgary, Alberta, August 1-31
2001
Open Windows, Devonian Art Gallery, Untitled Art Society, Calgary, Alberta January 3 – 21
Disposition, The Point of Art, Calgary, Alberta, Sept 27 – Oct 17 two person show with Susan Whyte
2000
Parallel Lines*, Leighton Centre, Burns Visual Arts Society, Calgary, Alberta
November 4 – 17 (juried) *Denotes Catalogue
Bibliography
Meaghan Baxter FFWD, “Pulse exhibit showcases polarizing debate”, July 28, 2011
Monique Westra for Galleries West, “Pulse: The Alberta Society of Artists at 80, Years, Triangle Gallery of Visual Arts” June 25, 2011
Akimbo: DICK AVERNS in Calgary 07/19/11 “Pulse at Triangle Gallery | Iran do Espirito Santo at Illingworth Kerr Gallery | Diabolique at The Founders’ Gallery | KOAC”
Heath MCcoy, Calgary Herald, “Pulse: Tensions and debate have fuelled growth in Alberta Society of the Arts for 80 years” June 23, 2011
Mike Landry, Things of Desire, “Face the Figure” November 26, 2009
Mari Saano, Edmonton Journal, “Domestic goddesses still have stereotypes to sweep” June 8, 2007
Olav Pokne, Saint City News, St. Albert, “Challenging Gender Roles”,June 8, 2007
Michelle Falkenstein, The New York Times, “Creating Unusual Paints, and Teaching Artists How to Use Them”, December 31, 2006
Christa O’Keefe, See Magazine, “Ladies on Lady”, May25-31, 2006 #652 Edmonton
Wes LaFortune, ffwd, “It’s a small world”, Vol 9 No 10, Feb 12, 2004 Calgary
Karoline Czerski, , The Gauntlet, Vol 44, Issue #26; “Who says size doesn’t matter?”Jan 22/04
Collections
The Alberta Foundations for the Arts
Private Collections, Canada, Australia, Netherlands
Affilations
Sculptors Society of Canada
Alberta Society of Artists (Full Member)
Visual Arts Alberta Association
Burns Visual Arts Society
Contact Information
Kim Bruce, D.I.D., A.S.A.
14 Redwood Meadows Court
Redwood Meadows, Alberta, CanadaT3Z 1A3
Phone: 403.949.2693