SOLO EXHIBITION
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SOLO EXHIBITION
The World's Leading Contemporary Fine Art Gallery
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The World's Leading Contemporary Fine Art Gallery
Kimberly D.
Dou
USA
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“My work is deeply personal, reflecting my own emotional landscape and experiences.”
Kimberly Dou holds a bachelor's degree in textile design, from the Central Academy of Arts and Design in Beijing, China (now known as Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University), and later shifted direction towards fashion designing. She has taught fashion illustration, fashion design, and color composition at the Central Academy of Arts and Design for seven years.
A young mother and her son enjoying each other's company.
She earned her master's degree in graphic design from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1995 and has worked as a college instructor, graphic designer, website designer, and a marketing designer since then, specializing in user interface and user experience (UI/UX). She has won various awards in design and fine arts over the years.
Dr. Sandy Williams, at the Union League Club, where she is a prominent member and frequently entertains friends.
As an artist working primarily in watercolor and colored pencil, Kimberly's work explores the intersection of nature and human emotion. Through her art, she aims to capture the beauty and complexity of the natural world, while also reflecting on the human experience, her own experience, and mankind's relationship with the environment.
“I have discovered that color pencils really possess powerful expressiveness.”
Watercolor is a medium that Kimberly finds particularly well-suited to capturing the ethereal quality of the natural environment and human subjects. With its transparent and fluid nature, watercolor allows her to create delicate and luminous washes of color that convey the essence of a scene.
“Instead of smooth blending, I like to leave the pencil marks visible, using contrasting colors in lines and dots to achieve the effect of air blending.”
In recent years, she began exploring colored pencil as the main medium, partly due to her tight work schedules, but most importantly because the hard-tipped pencils enable her to leverage her most natural ability of shaping and shading, adding depth and texture to her work, creating intricate details and subtle variations in tone.
Memories of Zhujiajiao, a small historic town near Shanghai, China, where the canal is the main attraction and the town's major events and social fairground.
“Looking back now, I believe my first language (artistic visual) was shape. Color was my second language. I always understood shapes better, as if they talk to me."
The contrasts of metal, concrete, and glass; the sun and its reflections; air and weight; fixed and flowy…
Her style is mostly representational, especially when it comes to the face and hands because those elements reveal most of the subjects' personality and subconscious, even though the composition and mood in her work are often idealized and dreamy. In her recent works, she likes to use larger and looser strokes and abstract shapes to treat the backgrounds.
It used to be important. It used to serve a purpose. It used to witness generations of family life. It can still hear the callings of the fields and the laughter of children…
Having been a fashion designer and instructor for many years, the artist is particularly sensitive to shapes and texture, as well as colors. That was because although she loved colors, she didn't understand them in the beginning or what they represented and how they worked together. Shapes have exaggerated tendencies; they form directions. They speak in the language of relationships and conflicts and give the human eye a sense of volume and focus.
At dusk, birds are hustling... Say goodbye to the water, nests are waiting…
As it turns out, color is a very personal expression. They represent the characteristics of the subjects. But even more so, in an artwork, colors represent the artist's own mood flow and the yearning of their inner self.
It's not her birthday, but she received a new doll, Miss Piggy, with fairy white wings.
“I enjoy creating portraits, figurative art, and landscapes.”
Plate tectonics, movement of rivers, weathering and erosion, ancient testimony.
Whether through the delicate lines and washes of watercolor or the intricate textures of colored pencils, Kimberly strives to capture the essence of the natural world and invite the viewer to contemplate its beauty and significance in one's life.
Awaits his half Reuben sandwich and Greek salad, Chattanooga, TN.
Kimberly lives in the metro area of Atlanta with her husband, an accomplished classical musician and art collector. Therefore, looking at paintings, and visiting museums, galleries, and antique markets are their common interests, along with trying different foods everywhere and finding good travel experiences.
A modern woman is one who loves gemstones, beads, purses and colors.