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Kim Abeles is an artist whose artwork explores biography, geography, feminism, and the environment. Kim Abeles was born in Richmond Heights, Missouri. Abeles was born in August 28, 1952 with the age of 69 years old. Her work speaks to society, science literacy, and civic engagement, creating projects with California Science center, health clinics and mental health departments. She has been inspired by many women that include: Rosa Parks and Aimee Semple McPherson. All of he artwork show a great resemblance in contemporary art and reveal how her art reveals a message and a great importance where one is able to learn from something. This is where her as an activist comes into play. Many of her popular artworks was the Pearl of wisdom: End of Violence which gave many of her nonprofit organization to open up about their stories on domestic violence and be able to design and pearl in order to show the significance of their journey.

Career
Kim abeles career is an artist who provides community based projects. She has created projects with the California Science Center, air pollution control agencies, health clinics and mental health departments, and natural history museums in California, Colorado and Florida. For the past two decades Abeles work has been results from the urban experience, chronicling historical and contemporary issues housed in sculpture and installation.

Exhibits/Collections

 * Pearls of Wisdom: End Of Violence: is a two year community engagement program that was created by Kim Abeles in collaboration with around 800 domestics violence survivors to forge courage and build momentum to end domestic violence
 * Valises for Camp Ground: was created in 2018 in order to teach about fire prevention, national forest, and our relationship with nature. She utilized substructures in order to created pine logs, chain saw, and other tools
 * To Sit as Ladder(In Honor of Rosa Parks): was created in 1991 in order to describe the life of Rosa Parks and in order to show the "Mother of the movement" for activist

Awards
Kim abeles recieved and award in 2013 which is named the Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, and she is a recipient of fellowships from J. Paul Getty Trust Fund for the Visual Arts, California Community Foundation and Pollack-Krasner Foundation.

Books and Videos

 * Abeles, Karen Moss, and Susan Silton. Kim Abeles: Encyclopedia Persona, 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).


 * Barnes, Lucinda, editor. Kim Abeles. A.R.T. Press, Los Angeles (1989)


 * Barnes, Lucinda, Miyoshi Barosh, William S. Bartman and Rodney Sappington (Editors). Twelve Contemporary American Artists Interview Twelve Contemporary American Artists. A.R.T. Press, Los Angeles (1996) Illustrated.


 * Blum, Paul Von. Other Visions, Other Voices - Women Political Artists in Greater Los Angeles (Foreward by Lucy Lippard). University Press of America, Inc., Lanham, MD (1994) Illustrated.


 * Finkle, Bruria, and Melinda Wortz. "Art and Spirituality-Eight Women." Yesterday & Tomorrow: California Women Artists. Midmarch Press, New York (1989) (Sylvia Moore, Editor).


 * Haynes, Deborah. The Vocation of the Artist. Cambridge University Press (1997) Illustrated.


 * Johnstone, Mark. Contemporary Art in Southern California. Craftsman House, Australia (forthcoming) Illustrated.


 * Leonardi, Joe, producer. Kim Abeles (1993). Funded by the J. Paul Getty Trust Fund for the Visual Arts, administered by the California Community Foundation.


 * Sedeen, Margaret. Star-Spangled Banner - Our Nation and Its Flag. National Geographic Society, Washington D.C., (1993) Illustrated.


 * Suderberg, Erica. Kim Abeles: Of Scattered Histories, Objects and Their Collision Course. Monde-Los Angeles, Editions Autrement, Paris (1993).