I will be showing a new phytogram movie as part of this collaborative show by Duwenavue Santé Johnson!

A/Bound
May 20 - June 17, 2023
Reception June 8th, 2023, 6-9 pm

Tiger Strikes Asteroid Philadelphia is pleased to announce the exhibition A/Bound, curated by Eva Moreno and Duwenavue Santé Johnson.

A/Bound focuses on the theme of transformation, legacy, and cross-generational relationship, through natural laws, which is brought into space using selected works by Duwenavue Santé Johnson, Kim Miskowicz, Omi Tanaka, Joseph Carrillo, George Shongutsie, and Chris Donnelly.

The collection of works offers a fresh perspective that speaks to our collective and individual experiences. It provides an interesting view of the human being as an integral part of an ecosystem, in a curious juxtaposition between the transition of the four seasons following each other in the year and the different stages of human development.

We are creating spaces relative to us, how we move, think, and be. A goal of space should “consider” the greater good for the majority of movements that create value with a strong hope that ecologically all of the movement supports a sort of harmony and balance to foster a regenerative environment.

The Poet’s “Testament”

I wrap the sky around myself
to keep away the cold
and eat starlight late at night
to take the place of rich
Dew drops scatter below the sky
for me to find and drink.
and out my poems flow
to greet the morn, to last her age.
My heart, sacrificed to its grave
gains unworldly powers;
the spirit flies into lands of dreams
the far side of the sky.
It seeks divinity in Heaven and brings it back to
earth
to soothe the sand and grass,
bringing happiness, bringing peace.
My purpose in composing poems
is to salvage the soul.

- Angkarn Kalayanapong (Thai), translated by Allan Ginsberg

A connective mixture of fine arts and craftsmanship from textile arts in the form of beadwork, and hand embroidery, while collages, phytograms, and paintings create visual terrains. Digital formats along with analog photography play a significant role in creating the movement of this exhibition.

The artists represented all share a unique type of systematic molding from forced state relocation, survival through academic pathways, and carrying on one’s culture by leaving the familiar. Each one of the artists has gone through multiple ebbs and flows, maintaining a practice of resilience, and using creative methods to sustain their lifelong art practice. Crossing paths during the height of the tides of gentrification in the California Bay Area, not cowering to fear, risk, and uncertainty while taking unexplored roads. This experience has led to certain shared values, notably, sharing learned ideas to help build, create, and explore all the while, understanding that nature is fragile and must be conserved and respected to allow for future generations of all life.

DETAILS

MY MOTHER'S MAIDEN NAME

Curated by: Tanya Gayer

2nd Sat Reception: Saturday, June 8, 2019 - 7:00pm to 10:00pm

Exhibition Dates: Jun 5, 2019 to Jun 29, 2019

3rd Thursday Artist Panel Discussion: Thursday, June 20, 2019 - 6:30pm to 8:00pm

Including CREATIVE STATION, free all-ages art activities in our Classroom.

Gallery Hours (or by appointment): Wednesday-Saturday, 2-6pm

I will be presenting my film as part of the opening night reception only on June 8, 2019, 8pm

What is your mother’s maiden name?
Who was your first kiss?

Banks, credit card companies, and social media sites utilize password security questions when users sign up for an account online. If the user forgets their login information in the future, they can retrieve access to their account by answering these security questions correctly. In most cases, the questions ask users to recall specific memories of their life and reinvent them as an extra form of protection. If one cannot remember their password, surely they can be asked to remember their first kiss in order to regain access to their account. But what are the implications of this protocol? What if a user must recall an invasive or predatory experience as their first kiss? The security questions utilized by corporations realize a subtle system that hinges on potentially harmful emotional triggers and notions of inadequacy. Within this system, corporations attempt to standardize beliefs, knowledge, and values that dictate when and where personal history is trusted to formulate identity and security.

My Mother’s Maiden Name analyzes this governance of individual history seen in security questions and implements this question and answer protocol as a precedent to discuss online authorship, culture-construction, and systems of knowledge. The selected artists take a considered approach to the fragility of memory and identity amongst digital data noise to account for information that cannot be quantified through such constructs like security systems.

The artists evaluate elements that are not concrete in text, visible data, or public, and instead entrench themselves in the emotions and values that come with answering a security question or using an Apple-patented gesture, for example. Albeit a coping mechanism or performance to satisfy interfaces with limited language and context, these actions tell important histories and beliefs that go beyond what is typed, selected in a drop down menu, or tracked via wifi. My Mother’s Maiden Name confronts this regulation of bodies to reveal requisite activism, awareness, and dialog to make changes to systems that shape identity and culture in facilities that are otherwise untraceable.

Exhibiting Artists:
Terry Berlier
Michelle Bonilla Garcia
Kira Dominguez-Hultgren
Joty Dhaliwal
Sarah Lee
Kim Miskowicz
Margaret Nobel
Yetunde Olagbaju
Mimi Onuoha
Julien Prévieux
Deborah Stein
tamara suarez porras

Panel Discussion: Thursday, June 20, 6:30 - 8:30pm

Presented in conjunction with My Mother's Maiden Name, Root Division invites you to attend a panel discussion on Thursday, June 20th from 6:30 - 8:30pm with exhibiting artists Kira Dominguez-Hultgren, Joty Dhaliwal, Julien Prévieux and tamara suarez porras and moderated by curator, Tanya Gayer.

This discussion will highlight the artist's individual work as well as speak to the range of themes present in the exhibition including how this question and answer protocol as a precedent to discuss online authorship, culture-construction, and systems of knowledge.

My Mother’s Maiden Name is free, open to the public, and includes a Creative Station - all ages art activities hosted in our classroom during the 2nd Saturday opening reception.

Cinema Arts: Ice Hours

the Exploratorium

Osher Gallery 1, Microcinema
Pier 15 (Embarcadero at Green St)
San Francisco, CA 94111

Included with museum admission and free for Daytime Members and on Thursday Nights for After Dark members.

Crafted from over a decade of video footage, Ice Hours features stunning views of Antarctic landscapes and the surrounding ocean set to an original score. Offering a glimpse into the overwhelming majesty of the natural world, the piece reflects on nature’s fragility, and presents a cathartic lens as an acknowledgment that we, in our inevitable turn, are faced with such fragility as well. At its core, the piece illustrates the inextricable connection and interdependence of humans and the natural environment and documents inspiring and endangered features of our changing planet. The work is a collaboration between photographer Camille Seaman, film artist Kim Miskowicz, and composer/musicians Kristina Dutton and Nathan Clevenger.

Composer/guitarist Nathan Clevenger was born in Oakland, California, and has been composing music informed by his voracious consumption of jazz, classical, and popular music from around the world, and an obsession with the written word, from an early age.

Composer/performer Kristina Dutton works in a wide range of musical settings. Her rigorous classical training led her to a brief career in orchestral work, but she soon gave herself over to her love affair with the art of pop music; she has performed on more than 40 albums of various genres.

Kim Miskowicz is a visual artist based in Oakland, California. Her work has been exhibited at numerous Bay Area venues including Artists’ Television Access, Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco Cinematheque, Southern Exposure, and Krowswork. Her paintings and films are inspired by her belief in the therapeutic effects of viewing distant forms in the landscape.

Camille Seaman is an American photographer who applies portraiture strategies to capture the changing natural environment. Her work mainly concerns the polar regions, where she captures the effects of climate change, merging the realms of science and art.

Museum Hours

Tuesday–Sunday
(All Ages)
10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.

Thursday Evenings
(Ages 18+)
6:00–10:00 p.m.

Monday
Closed except select Monday holidays

March 7, 2019

ICE HOURS at THE EXPLORATORIUM
After Dark Thursdays series
Co-presented by San Francisco Cinematheque


A multimedia event inspired by footage of stunning Antarctic landscapes and the surrounding ocean. Ice Hours is a collaboration between composer/performers Kristina Dutton and Nathan Clevenger, photographer Camille Seaman, and visual artist Kim Miskowicz

talk 7:30 PM
performance 8:30 PM

Pier 15 (Embarcadero at Green St)
SF, CA 94111

Exhibition Dates: January 27th - February 17th, 2018

IN CIRCULATION - new collages by Kim Miskowicz
Opening Reception Saturday, January 27, 2018, 6 – 8pm
Closing Reception Saturday, February 17, 2018, 6 – 8pm
305 Center Street, Oakland, CA

IN CIRCULATION is a solo exhibition of new collages by the artist Kim Miskowicz.
This show at Lost & Foundry Studios includes two premieres of larger works from Miskowicz’ fictional landscapes created from found recording chart papers from the Black Hole Surplus in Los Alamos, NM. The Black Hole Surplus was a large thrift store from the collections of a former Los Alamos National Labs machinist and technician, Ed Grothus. Miskowicz renders vast landscapes by cutting, tearing, and gluing each layer of paper to add depth and texture. Miskowicz also uses the variety of paper thickness and printed patterns to guide the viewer into skies, water, and pilings of unknown formations. These rough-edged horizons with sediment-filled crevices contain criss-crossing, overlapping lines that are used to graph formations and devise places that exist in these papers.

JANUARY 13th, 2018
Know Before You Go at NIAD
Opening Reception Saturday, January 13th, 2018, 1 – 4pm
NIAD Art Center 551 23rd Street Richmond, CA 94804

JANUARY 27th, 2018
In Circulation - Kim Miskowicz at Lost and Foundry Studios
Opening Reception Saturday, January 27, 2018, 6 – 8pm
Closing Reception Saturday, February 17, 2018, 6 – 8pm
305 Center Street, Oakland CA

NEGATIVE SPACE GALLERY at DEPENDABLE LETTERPRESS
presents
VAULT - new collages by Kim Miskowicz

Vault by Kim Miskowicz, 2017, mixed media collage on panel, 30"H x 40"W


Exhibition Dates: August 3 - September 30, 2017
Opening Reception: Friday, August 11, 6 - 9pm
Exhibition Hours: Monday - Friday, 9 - 5
Dependable Letterpress, 1192 Illinois Street, San Francisco, California 94107

VAULT is a solo exhibition of new collages by the artist Kim Miskowicz. In this latest series, Miskowicz creates fictional landscapes from layers of found oscilloscope and other technical recording papers from the Black Hole Surplus in Los Alamos, NM. The Black Hole Surplus was a large thrift store from the collections of a former Los Alamos National Labs machinist and technician, Ed Grothus. Miskowicz slowly renders these vast landscapes by cutting, tearing, and gluing each layer of paper to add depth and texture. Miskowicz also uses the variety of paper thickness and printed patterns to guide the viewer into skies, water, and pilings of unknown formations. These rough-edged horizons with sediment-filled crevasses contain criss-crossing, overlapping lines that are used to graph formations and devise places that exist in these papers.

PUZZLE, 2017
30" x 40" mixed media on panel

opening reception: Saturday, April 15th, 2017, 1:00 – 4:00 pm
with music spun by Tim Buckwalter!
NIAD Art Center 551 23rd Street Richmond, CA 94804

Hello!
I have a show of new found paper collages up at NIAD in April in Richmond, CA. Please stop by for the opening reception on Saturday, April 15th, 2017. Also showing at NIAD’s galleries are solo shows by the inspiring Marlon Mullen and Sylvia Fragoso. DETAILS

About PUZZLE:
These imaginary landscapes are created with layers of found oscilloscope recording papers from the Black Hole Surplus in Los Alamos, NM. The Black Hole Surplus was a large thrift store from the collections of a former Los Alamos National Labs machinist and technician, Ed Grothus. Due to the nature of how I like to render formations, my process is slow with cutting, tearing, and gluing each layer to add depth and texture. These rough-edged horizons with sediment-filled crevasses contain criss-crossing, overlapping lines that are used to graph formations and devise places that exist in these papers.

WIN WIN 5
NIAD FUNDRAISER
Saturday, April 1, 2017 from 4-6pm at Clif Bar HQ in Emeryville, CA

I also have 2 paintings available at the upcoming NIAD fundraiser WIN WIN 5
NIAD Art Center’s visual art program promotes meaningful independent living by artists with disabilities—while its artists create remarkable contemporary art. In a unique open studio environment, and with the guidance of qualified staff, NIAD artists acquire new skills in artistic practice and in independent living.

Artwork for the fundraiser is also available for purchase before the event. Here’s what I donated:
Ray 1
Ray 2

I hope you are well, and hope to see you soon!

All the best,

Kim

WORLD PREMIERE VIDEO of ARE YOU? and other shorts by Kim Miskowicz
ARTISTS' TELEVISION ACCESS
NOVEMBER 10, 2016, 8pm

Drawing from her video archive of references for her 2-dimensional work, Miskowicz weaves the sublime with reminders of its impermanence such as listening to crickets at the North Rim of the Grand Canyon interrupted by the starting of a car. In this intimate program of moving images, Kim Miskowicz explores cognitive and physical place, animated found imagery, pulsating landscapes, privacy and video fragments within a variety of formats.

Screening will include films and videos spanning nearly a decade of other compositional musings and nostalgic speculations on points in space. See new cell phone camera generations of “XU Extract,” in celebration of it’s 11th birthday, a generationally updated and downgraded video that chases conversions of moving image formats, with each new generation containing a small part of the first.

PROGRAM:
ARE YOU ? – digital video
Travel Plaza – digital video
Oakland, CA – Middle Harbor Rd – digital video
ABQ do not edit – Super 8mm
Saving the Next to Last – hand-crank Super 8mm
Bennetteville Movie – digital video
XU – 11th birthday – digital video
Building Drip – Super 8mm
Midwinter Firework- digital video
Daily Winter Bridge – Super 8mm
Cement Ship Called the Palo Alto – Super 8mm
Part III – Super 8mm
And more!

“My work focuses on a response to material and data overload creating breaks in continuous thoughts similar to a building obstructing a view of a simple horizon. My paintings and films are inspired by the belief in therapeutic effects of viewing distant forms in the landscape. I use film and video as a multiplier and quick viewer of minutely varied compositions. I explore media and material absorption in relation to determining what of our personal, emotional and informational lives one preserves versus invalidates.”

–Kim Miskowicz 2016

Hi Folks,

I hope this post finds you well during this super-bloom-pollen-don't-forget-the-late-bloomers spring:

One of my LABELS SERIES paintings, "Wall With No Name," is included in Common Ground: A Celebration of Our National Parks at the The David Brower Center in Berkeley, CA. This exhibition is a celebration of the hundredth anniversary of the National Park System as seen through the eyes of Bay Area artists. There will be a beer and wine reception, free and open to the public. I hope you can join me at the reception!

Common Ground Opening Reception
2150 Allston Way, Suite 100, Berkeley, CA 94704
Friday, May 20
6:30 - 8:30 pm
Free; $10 Suggested Donation
RSVP

FEATURED ARTISTS:
Alexis Arnold, Jenny E. Balisle, Tony Bellaver, George-Ann Bowers, Mariet Braakman, Hopi Breton, Kimberley D'Adamo Green, Marshall Elliott, Tanja Geis, J. M. Golding, Jeff Greenwald, Andras Ladai, Malcolm Lubliner, Kara Maria, Kim Miskowicz, Karen Preuss, Ansley West Rivers, Caroline Seckinger, Paul Taylor, Christopher Woodcock

ALSO, I had the fortune of working with the brilliant flash fiction writer Kara Vernor on her upcoming chapbook, "Because I Wanted to Write You a Pop Song," for Split Lip Press. The cover art is based on my recent LABELS series maquettes. Get this on your list of summer reading material for June 2016!

FINALLY, I am immensely delighted to announce my upcoming residency in July at Project 387. I will be editing a new video capturing disruptions in idealized places of landscape, mind and emotion. More to come ...

COMMON GROUND at the Brower Center in Berkeley, CA

opening reception May 20th, 2016, details tbd

The Brower Center is excited to announce our 2016 juried exhibition, which will run from May 20 – September 8, 2016. On the hundredth anniversary of the National Park System, the 2016 juried exhibition will address "America’s Best Idea" as seen through the eyes of local artists. The 2016 juried show jurors are Stephanie Hanor, Director, Mills College Art Museum, Katrina Traywick, Director, Traywick Contemporary, Laurie Rich, Executive Director of the David Brower Center, and Sean Uyehara, Director of Programs, Headlands Center for the Arts.

This year marks the centennial of the Organic Act of 1916, which established the National Park Service. The purpose of the agency is, “to conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and the wild life therein and to provide for the enjoyment of the same in such manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations.” Art was crucial to creation of the National Parks System, and continues to be essential to advocates for parks: The oils of Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Hill, Thomas Moran, and other painters of Yosemite moved President Lincoln, in 1864, to protect that most beautiful of valleys as a park. Paintings and photographs of Yellowstone had the same effect in 1872. The success of David Brower and Ansel Adams in getting a copy of Adams’s portfolio of photographs, Sierra Nevada: the John Muir Trail, into the hands of Franklin Roosevelt tipped the balance in creation of Kings Canyon National Park.

Artists today continue in this tradition. Maya Lin’s “Confluence Project,” made up of collaborative installations in parks along the Columbia River, and her “What Is Missing” project commemorates the biodiversity vanishing now in the Sixth Extinction. Conceptual artist Amy Balkin proposes a “clean air park” in the atmosphere and a “global commons.” These contemporaries carry on artistically the conceptual work of activists like David Brower, whose full-page 1969 New York Times ad proposed that this planet become a “conservation district” within the universe--an “Earth National Park"--and of the evolutionary biologist E.O. Wilson, who, at the national parks summit last May, proposed setting aside half of our planet for life forms other than ourselves.



Featured artists

Alexis Arnold

Jenny E. Balisle

Tony Bellaver

George-Ann Bowers

Mariet Braakman

Hopi Breton

Kimberley D'Adamo Green

Marshall Elliott

Tanja Geis

J. M. Golding

Jeff Greenwald

Andras Ladai

Malcolm Lubliner

Kara Maria

Kim Miskowicz

Karen Preuss

Ansley West Rivers

Caroline Seckinger

Paul Taylor

Christopher Woodcock

My video, TRAVEL PLAZA, is showing as part of Krowsworkerswork, A 10-DAY FESTIVAL at Krowswork

480 23rd Street - side entrance
Oakland, California 94612


OPENING: January 1, 2016, 3-7 pm
CLOSING: January 10, 2016, 2-4 pm

OTHER HOURS: Saturday, Jan 2 1-5; Friday January 8th, 4-8; Saturday, Jan 9, 1-5.

DECEMBER 12, 2015, at Lost & Foundry
Facebook event here

You are invited to “Something For Everyone,” at Lost & Foundry Studios 305 Center Street, Oakland, CA, on December 12th 5­-7 PM. SFE is a group show of work by 10 artists living and working in the Bay Area.

The show consists of painting, sculpture, illustration and photography. Viewers will find mixed media paintings and drawings in which the natural world emerges on a micro and macro level. Landscapes and objects, familiar and abstract materialize from assembled scraps of fabric, wood and paper. Other work explores the psyche and narratives through paintings, ink drawings and photography.


Featured Artists:

Alexis Arnold

Jeff Hantman

Bridget May

Chris Mcnally

Kim Miskowicz

Mansur Nurullah

Pamela Palma

Steve Smith

Chris Wells

Erik Zo



Lost & Foundry Studios and Gallery is a 15,000 square foot facility that contains work space for 11 artists and a gallery. The mission is to maintain a space where creative freedom can be pursued on an individual and collective level. L&F aims to provide a cultural base for the members by hosting exhibitions for themselves and colleagues to provide a bridge between artists and the communities they live and work in.

Many of the Lost & Foundry residents will have their studios open for viewing during the event.

Hi Folks,

I donated a diptych, Record Holders, to San Francisco Cinematheque's 5th Annual Art Auction and Benefit. This will be a fun celebration, with great food, wine, music and art (for sale by auction) contributed by over 60 great artists.

BID ON MY PIECE HERE!

Event Details:
when: Saturday, September 26, 7–10pm
where: San Francisco Cinematheque/Center for New Music, 55 Taylor Street (at Market) in SF, CA
admission: $20 general/$15 for Cinematheque members (advance tickets available here)
preview the auction and bid online (from near and far)

Also, I am on San Francisco Cinematheque’s Board of Directors and Auction Committee this year. WE STILL NEED A FEW MORE VOLUNTEERS for the night of the event. Please consider giving us a few hours of your time to help make this event a success! If you are interested, please contact sfc@sfcinematheque.org

List of volunteer positions that still need to filled

FINALLY, I’ve updated my website with 3 new artworks and documentation from my solo show at Krowswork last fall, including my limited edition collage/video albums for sale.


All the best,

Kim Miskowicz

David Brower Center, 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA 94704

Opening Reception
Thursday, May 28, 2015
6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
7:30 pm: Saving the Next to Last performance
Free; $10 Suggested Donation

RSVP

Join Security Question artists for an evening wine reception in the Brower Center’s Hazel Wolf Gallery. Artist Kim Miskowicz will present a live edition of Saving the Next to Last, a “reverse archive” of digital material transferred to the analog format of Super 8mm film. By documenting fake security questions and Google Earth locations on celluloid, Miskowicz playfully argues that a physical record might be more long-lasting than a digital one after all.

from the curators:

Our sense of security holds broad implications for our personal lives and political actions—informing decisions from the mundane to the momentous. In an open call for entry, the Brower Center asked Bay Area artists to offer a 21st century perspective on this complex and incredibly significant concept. The result is Security Question, a juried exhibition that embraces an expansive definition, exploring contemporary military and police issues while widening the debate to include environmental, social, and economic concerns. At times dark, humorous, and hopeful, the featured artworks investigate our national and local defense systems and explore whether security might also be found in our connections to each other and the natural world.

Artists:
Lino Azevedo - Terry Berlier - Gail Bravos - Jerome Brunet - Charlie Costello - Rodney Ewing - Alison OK Frost - Linda Gass - Michael Hall - Rebecca Herman and Mark Shoffner - Carter Johnston - Kim Miskowicz - Maggie Preston - Paul Taylor - Jesse Walton - Stephen Whisler

12/15/14 - 12/31/15
I am looking for venues and funding to continue to show the works that were included in my solo show at Krowswork Gallery last fall. While I'm researching and applying, if you know of a venue or organization that has an open time-slot, space and/or funding to show these works related to technological acceleration and geologic time please contact me kim at kimmiskowicz.com