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Kim Abeles
Kim Abeles (born on August 28, 1952) is an American interdisciplinary artist and professor emeritus currently living in Los Angeles. She is an artist that really focuses her work by exploring biography, geography, feminism, and the environment. She speaks into the worlds society, science literacy, and civic engagement. Some of her projects end up involving many parts of the world like projects with the California Science Center, health clinics and mental health departments, and the National Park Service. Abeles is seen as an activist because of her work that introduces social and political nature and her feminism works too. Abeles uses many techniques as for her artwork which are using stencils and adhesives to collect particulate and produce symbols and images.

Website : https://kimabeles.com/

Instagram : @kimabeles https://www.instagram.com/kimabeles/?hl=en

Life and Education
Kim Abeles was born in Richmond Heights, Missouri but when she was a child, she spent some time living in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Abeles was able to receive her BFA in painting from Ohio University and also earned her MFA in a studio art from the University of California, Irvin in 1980. Throughout her life she was able to maker her early works with people like Edward Kienholz and Wallace Berman.

Career
Throughout Abeles work she was able to create many spacious art works and also that involved with the human body and nature. She is also able to use her research as a way to guide her for the making of her art works. Some of those art works were collaborations with air pollution control agencies involve images from the smog, and large-scale objects with natural history museums in California, Colorado, and Florida incorporate specimens ranging from lichen to nudibranchs. In the year 1987, she created a type of method that used images from the smog in the air and Smog Collectors brought their own art works to national and international attention. As many of her art works talk, express, and address the social and environmental issues like topics of HIV/AIDS, pollution, gender roles, domestic roles, feminism, civil rights, and labor.

Accomplishments

 * Solo Exhibition : Smog Collectors 1987-2020, Curated by Jennifer Frias, Nicholas and Lee Begovich Gallery, California State University Fullerton; September 18-December 18, 2021.
 * Project and an Exhibition : Pearls of Wisdom: End The Violence (2017).
 * Solo exhibition of forty mixed media works and installations at the Frank M. Doyle Pavillion, Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, California   Curated by Kim Garrison Means  Sept 21-Dec 2, 2017.
 * Quarantine Public Library: November 15, 2020. Kim Abeles created a book called “Like or As”.
 * Walk a Mile in My Shoes (2014) is a public artwork by Kim Abeles, and funded by the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs and Department of Public Works.
 * Valises for Camp Ground: Arts, Corrections, and Fire Management in the Santa Monica Mountains Funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, Los Angeles County Arts Commission, and led by The Armory Center for the Arts (2018).
 * Installing Citizen Seeds by the light of the moon, October 24, 2021.
 * Shared Skies, 2014. Administered by the Community Redevelopment Agency Anderson Munger Family YMCA, Los Angeles; Roger Chikhani, AIA, Luckman Partnership
 * Time-Line-Space, 2010. Commissioned by the Los Angeles Unified School District Library entrance of the Robert F Kennedy Community Schools; Ambassador Hotel historical site Gonzalez Goodale Architects.
 * Woven Hands (Community Mental Health) 2013. Commissioned and in the permanent collection of the Los Angeles County Arts Commission and the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health Current location site: Kedren Community Health Center.