Jane Kim (artist)

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Jane Kim
Born1981 (age 43–44)
United States
Education Rhode Island School of Design,
California State University, Monterey Bay
Known forConservation murals
StyleScientific illustration
Website http://inkdwell.com/

Jane Kim (born 1981) is an American painter, science illustrator and the founder of the Ink Dwell studio. She is best known for her large-scale murals, created with the purpose of promoting advocacy of the natural world.

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Biography

Jane Kim was born in 1981, and raised in Mount Prospect, Illinois. [1] [2] Kim studied at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and received her B.F.A. in printmaking in 2003. [3] She moved to San Francisco the same year of her graduation in 2003, living initially in the Tenderloin neighborhood. [4] Kim later attended California State University, Monterey Bay to study scientific illustration, graduating in 2010. [5]

In 2012, Kim started the process of creating the Migrating Mural, a series of six murals featuring Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep. [6] The murals span 120 miles of California’s Highway 395. Fundraising for the project took place on the crowd funding platform, Kickstarter. [7]

Kim was a featured artist in the Facebook Artist Residency program. [8] Her work is located in a Facebook campus stairwell featuring graphic portraits of local, native birds and a second mural with illustrations of the local Facebook campus foxes. [9] [10]

In 2015, Kim completed a 70-foot by 40-foot mural called the Wall of Birds at Cornell University's Lab of Ornithology. [11] [12] The mural depicts 243 modern bird families, all life size and superimposed on a map of the earth. [11] It took her two and a half years to complete the work. [12]

In 2016, Kim served as an artist-in-residency at the De Young (museum) and explored the idea of native and non-native ecology in San Francisco. [13]

In 2017, Kim painted the Flora From Fauna series of six murals around Redwood City, California to commemorate a lost industry of the 1920s when Japanese immigrants were growing and exporting chrysanthemums from the city. [14] Unfortunately much of the chrysanthemum industry was lost during World War II and the internment of Japanese-Americans. [14]

InkDwell studio moved to Half Moon Bay, California in 2018 and is by appointment only. [15] [16] [17] In 2023, she was interviewed by Half Moon Bay Review where she highlighted that she has been focusing on making her art pieces more nature-oriented and further stating, "Nature has always been my muse, but in art school I was discouraged from doing this kind of work." [18]

Publications

Murals

This is a list of select murals completed by InkDwell studio and Jane Kim.

References

  1. ↑ "Kim, Jane, 1981-". VIAF, OCLC.
  2. ↑ Hageman, William (30 November 2015). "Artist creates a 3,000-square-foot mural devoted to birds". chicagotribune.com. Retrieved 2020-08-31. said the 34-year-old artist who grew up in Mount Prospect.
  3. ↑ "News: Protecting Endangered Species". Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). Retrieved 2015-12-28.[ dead link ]
  4. 1 2 "Massive mural planned for Tenderloin aims to make Monarch butterflies "impossible to ignore"". Hoodline. 2 October 2019. Retrieved 2019-10-03.
  5. ↑ "Painting on Walls: The Art and Illustrations of Jane Kim". Guild of Natural Science Illustrators (GNSI). 2015-11-01. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2015-12-27.
  6. ↑ Pandika, Melissa. "Conservation Art: Jane Kim's Migrating Murals". Sierra. The Sierra Club. Retrieved 2015-12-28.
  7. ↑ "Saving Nature Through Art: Jane Kim and Her Migrating Murals". 7x7 Magazine. 2012-09-28. Retrieved 2015-12-28.
  8. ↑ Binlot, Ann (2014-05-14). "Facebook 'Likes' Art". The Daily Beast. Retrieved 2015-12-28.
  9. ↑ "Art and the Corporate Life: Facebook Artist in Residence Program". Art Business. Retrieved 2015-12-28.
  10. ↑ "Up in the AIR: How will tech residencies reshape Bay Area art?". Rhizome. 20 January 2015. Retrieved 2015-12-28.
  11. 1 2 "Jane Kim's Bird Mural". The New York Times. 2015-12-08. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2015-12-28.
  12. 1 2 "This Monumental Mural Depicting the Evolution of Birds Took 2½ Years to Paint". Slate. 2015-12-10. ISSN   1091-2339 . Retrieved 2015-12-28.
  13. ↑ ""(non)NATIVE", by June Artist-in-Residence Jane Kim". de Young Museum. 2016-03-10. Retrieved 2016-04-28.
  14. 1 2 3 "San Francisco artist festoons Redwood City with wildlife bearing flowers". Curbed SF. Retrieved 2018-02-22.
  15. ↑ Clark, Zachary (June 2, 2018). "Wildlife-centered art studio opens". San Mateo Daily Journal. Retrieved 2018-06-08.
  16. ↑ Guz, Sarah Griego (May 30, 2018). "Artist, studio swim into Harbor Village". Half Moon Bay Review. Retrieved 2018-06-08.
  17. ↑ Tokofsky, Peter (2023-07-05). "Art and science converge in redwoods project". Half Moon Bay Review. Retrieved 2024-01-31.
  18. ↑ Tokofsky, Peter (2023-07-05). "Art and science converge in redwoods project". Half Moon Bay Review. Retrieved 2024-01-31.
  19. ↑ "First of New Mural Series Installed in Springdale". KNWA. 2017-09-26. Retrieved 2019-10-03.
  20. ↑ Joyner, Jennifer (2017-09-07). "At-risk monarch butterfly the subject of public art at Springdale airport". Talk Business & Politics.
  21. ↑ "Large-Scale Art Makes Tiny Creatures 'Impossible to Ignore'". National Geographic Society Newsroom. 2017-11-28. Retrieved 2019-10-03.
  22. ↑ Saal, Mark (2018-09-17). "Migrating Mural: Ogden spreading its wings with monarch murals around town". Standard-Examiner. Archived from the original on 2019-09-25. Retrieved 2019-10-03.
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