Kimberly M. Chai

kimberly chai
60 x 60
€ 200,00

Website: http://www.cedarstreetgalleries.com/bin/works.cgi?Artist=ChaiKimberlyM.

Born 1967, Honolulu, Hawai’i (U.S.A.)

Kimberly M. Chai is a printmaker, an educator and a textile designer.
She has been teaching two-dimensional design at Kapiolani Community College since 2005.
Her work has been exhibited locally, nationally and internationally.

Education:
M.F.A. in Printmaking, 1995, School of Art, Washington University,
St. Louis, Missouri.
B.F.A. in Printmaking, 1991, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers,
The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey.

Collections:
The State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, Honolulu, Hawai’i.
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawai’i.
The Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, Hawai’i.

Awards and recognition:
Gift Print Artist, Honolulu Printmakers, 2007.
Graphic Chemical Award, “Honolulu Printmakers 76th Annual Exhibition,”  Academy Art Center, 2004.
Fine Arts Associate Award, “Honolulu Printmakers 73rd Annual Exhibition,” Academy Art Center, 2001.

Themes of place are evident in Kimberly M. Chai’s reductive relief prints for textile designs, which use iconic elements such as a surfer, a shell lei, hibiscus to capture local ambience.

Textile designer Kimberly Chai from Hawaii works in reductive multi-plate linoleum; woodblock prints litho graphs and etchings. Her abstracted ‘Water garden’ print imagery for aloha shirts was informed by her textile practice.