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Kim Abeles
Kim Victoria Abeles(August 28, 1952) is an American activist artist and professor emeritus. Abeles was born in Richmond Heights, Missouri, and currently lives in Los Angeles, California. Her artwork is focused on social, political, and environmental issues. She is also widely known for her artworks regarding feminist issues. Her artwork has been displayed in forty public collections such as LACMA, MOCA, Berkeley Art Museum, and many more. Apart from her artwork, she was a professor at California State University, Northridge that taught the following topics: public art, sculpture, and drawing.

Early Life & Education
Kim Victoria Abeles was born on August 28, 1952, in Richmond Heights, Missouri. She grew up in Pittsburgh and that influenced one of her most famous artworks Smog Collectors. From the age of ten years old, she started teaching art to children in her neighborhood, and from then her love of community-based artwork began. Later on in life, she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Ohio University and a Masters of Fine Arts from The University of California, Irvine in 1980.

Work

Kim Abeles has experimented with multiple forms of media, including reused materials, drawings, multimedia, sculpture, and installations. She is an artist working with community-based projects exploring social, political, and environmental issues. Her artwork has been displayed in forty public collections such as LACMA, MOCA, Berkeley Art Museum, and many more. She has explored topics in her artworks such as feminism, gender roles, domestic violence, civil rights, and so on. She has described her work as "results from the urban experience, chronicling historical and contemporary issues housed in sculpture and installation." Abeles's work begins with a single person or subject, and she will dive into her selected topic through her own personal investigation and exploration until she feels comfortable commencing her artwork. Her artwork is described as the poetic soul in a visual language by her.

Smog Collectors

Smog Collectors was Kim Abeles's most known artwork. She created The Smog Collectors to show the reality of the polluted air we breathe. Abeles' technique consisted of using stenciled images on a transparent plate, then leaving them on the roof of her studies and allowing the heavy air pollution to fall on them. She would leave them out on the roof for four days and then would remove the stencil and an image was created from the smog. This collection is shown in many different series such as The Presidential Commemorative Plates, paintings of Lascaux, images of the body, landscapes and more.

Collaborative Work

Kim Abeles has worked with multiple schools and educational organizations to collaborate on art exhibits and installations. Her artwork has been displayed in forty public collections such as LACMA, MOCA, Berkeley Art Museum, and many more. Her art has also been seen to support agencies that bring awareness to pollution control agencies, museums, health clinics, and more.

Solo Exhibts

 * 1) https://cfa.lmu.edu/labandgallery/exhibitions/pastexhibitions/2010/kimabelesartactivism/
 * 2) https://www.mutualart.com/Exhibition/Kim-Abeles--A-Survey/B5E52E3DBC259070CV
 * 3) https://www.calstatela.edu/al/ronald-h-silverman-fine-arts-gallery
 * 4) https://www.lacountyarts.org/article/la-county-civic-artwork-receives-award-public-art-network

Refernces

 * https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016AGUFMED41B..02A/abstract (google scholar )
 * https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/09/arts/design/pollution-abeles-art-fullerton-environment.html (New York Times)
 * https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2020-10-21/kim-abeles-smog-collectors-wildfire-art ( Los Angeles Times )
 * O’Connell, Kim A. “Riprap.” Landscape Architecture, vol. 90, no. 3, 2000, pp. 14–18. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/44670787. Accessed 28 Apr. 2023.
 * https://kimabeles.com/smog-collectors/
 * https://kimabeles.com/