I am a consumer of unwanted toxicities that leads me on a quest for beauty, humor, vitality, and connection. As a dyslexic and child of a household disrupted by mental illness and divorce, disorientation was a common state for me. I adopted other families and collected good energy from people I liked as a kid, and built from that a energy collection process, I continue to hone.

I use water as a lens like a kid with a magnifying glass, pulling things - in this case transparent layers of video imagery- apart to study them. I observe gestures, simple acts of caring, an expression, an emotional record, studying actions. I love video as a fluid painting device for collaging. I choose to work with liquids -- for their transparency, and as they are too slippery for me to fully control. I engage a process of disorientation to rotate and shake the snowglobe of my life, and enjoy the sparkle, beauty of light and movement, being projected through water. This projection process traces the energy of people, ghosting their shadows, heightening the glow of their reality.

My videos are always housed, ordinary supplies such as glass bottles, cereal bag liners, and plastic bags ground the work materially. forming into a sculpture, activating an installation, becoming a projection machine. They mark connections between the virtual and physical; connections and pathways, electricity and water colliding in the same conduit, expressing the complexity of beauty, anxiety, and love.




Bio
Originally from San Antonio,Texas, Kimberlee now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. In Northern California, she has shown her work at the Zero 1 Bienniale, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Mission 17, Sonoma State University, The Invisible Venue, and The Lab. In 2004 she was awarded a residency grant by Lugar Comum in Lisbon, Portugal. In Europe, her work has been shown at the Biennial of Mediterranean Young Artist in Saravejo, Bosnia, Porto 2000 Capital of Culture, Cultural Center Malaposta, Gallery ZDB, and 'Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin' in 2001. The same year she participated in shows at Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Arts in Florida and Beecher Center for Technology in the Arts in Ohio. She earned her MFA in Art from Mills College and holds an MA in Scenography from Central St. Martins College of Art & Design, London. In addition to her own art practice Kimberlee also creates scenography for theatrical performances. At present she is working on a production with her long time artistic collaborator, Daniel Alexander Jones, using the Jazz theatrical Aesthetic to render a production of August Wilson's Gem of the Ocean at Marin Theatre Co. She teaches currently at Diablo Valley College.