Contact Kim Michelle
info@kimmichelle.com

The State of My Mind

back in flat land. help me myself. i am here i am here. coming to the grip. griping my lips. snarling and roaring inside i feel a little bit...like i will burst! because my heart won't stop racing and pounding like a brick. telling me in my mind to pray, and stop and pray. and i don't and so it won't stop. but i don't because praying doesn't work. and the sky being full of sun doesn't matter. anymore. here or there. more or less. i will walk away on this new day. and try to find the light as i once did say. i want to be more now, and shout it to the world. and how oh how when i see it all passing by. this is utterly depressing and i wish i wouldnt want you to read this, i don't but i will write it now because that is what i am doing and i will do it , and you will toot it. you are a fruit loop shit. i am a flighty paper strip. stripped all the way down to the ground. not your gound, THE ground grinding, under and over and through all over. deeper than deeper than...nothing is deeper than the hole in my ground. plugg up the rug and suck up the drugs. peace peace peace and love oh please please please don't judge the judge. forgive me myself again. and i will be released. i am so so so dark in the eyes, round in the fires, found in the smoke, tearing, snearing in desire. it was the wrong time. although unblameful, and when unshameful it was my wrong mind. and so i will again say it was my wrong mind. and then i can say that i was in time, and so sorry for not rising away. wow. just to escape. except none came at all. and still i am here and needing of fear to write and release, and please to please. this f-piece. f for forgiveness that is.

Shape Shifting and Punch Kisses

Punch Kiss - the period before a miracle, a lesson almost learned, a sweet punch in the face, a smack in the face. Taking one for the team. A punch kiss is something filled with so much emotion that it is on the edge of explosion. This outburst is so huge it would infiltrate the space inbetween your thoughts, everyone’s thoughts. And it will change you forever. It is a light in your mind. A fresh deep breath, a whisper in the wind. The sun. It is a song that holds your heart, and roots you down.  It is buzzing and smacking, sliding, extending, pushing, persisting, insisting, flowering, blooming, tuning, fine tuning, working, rearranging. It is the time where you are working to become free of everything or anything that you thought, things that you think that were true and then you realize they are not and so you are forced to let go. So seriously do your thoughts stick to the layered skins of  your mind. A punch kiss is the natural course, the way it should be, without really believing that it is. It is the fight against all other people’s thoughts, all the thoughts of the world, all opinions, all the things that you should and shouldn’t do. The punch kiss is bitter, and dense and so rich in the center, its petals are made of the sweetest, purest, most healing essence you have never sensed nor could even imagine.

RESUME

Education
2005 BFA Honors in Printmaking
Massachusetts College of Art
Boston, MA

Work and Other Professional Experience
Artist’s Assistant for Michelle Mardis, Tarpon Springs, FL 2007

Framer, The Frame Center, Orleans, MA 2005

Master Print Series with Sarah Sze 2004 and Carlos Estevez 2005 Assistant Printer, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston

National Annual Printmaking Conference 2003 Participant, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston

Exhibitions
Urban Outfitters Installation Window
YBOR City, FL April - May 2008

Sensory Overload 2008
Creative Loafing Annual Event
Tampa, FL

Tampa Artist Emporium
Tampa, FL Jan. - Mar. 2008

“Shape Shifting” Imago
Dunedin, FL April 2007

“Afloat” Sensory Overload
Creative Loafing Annual Event
Tampa, FL March 2007

“Punch Kiss!-A Show of Shapes”
Progress Energy Art Gallery, New Port Richey, FL January 2007

“Art in Paradise” Art Auction
Holiday, FL April 2006

“Weaving Through the Space In-between” Solo Exhibit Jo Mama’s, Orleans, MA Winter 2005

Boston Printmakers Biannual Show Student Exhibition
808 Gallery, Boston, MA
2003 & 2005

“Thi{ink}tank” Group Show
Godine Gallery, Boston 2005

“(Degrees)” Fall Senior Printmaking Show Student Life Gallery, Boston 2004

“Weaving Through the Space In-between” Solo Dance Performance Boston 2004

Annual Printmaking Conference Student Show Student Life Gallery, Boston 2003

Awards
Printmaking Department Award, Massachusetts College of Art, 2003 & 2004 Quadribium Certificate, Massachusetts College of Art, 2005 Acknowledgment by Ben Blum at 2006 Joint Spring Meeting
        NES APS/AAPT “Physics and Cosmology: At the Interface”
        Boston University April 2006
Graduated with Honors, Massachusetts College of Art 2005

Publications
New American Paintings 2007
Creative Loafing, March 2007, 2008
Suncoast News, December 2006

BIO

Kim Michelle Coakley grew up in the beautiful land of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. There she knew of nothing else except the beauty of nature and the comfort of friends and family. From day one Kim drew and painted and made many crafts. She always loved to create. She knew that when she grew up she would go to art school and one day become a great artist. To this very day Kim holds this dream dear to her heart, even when she learned the world was not at all what she thought it would be. As she strives to protect her innocence through her work, she cannot help but describe the struggles she encounters along the journey of her life. She can make art about nothing else because her only real goal is to be free her heart and find eternal peace. With this clear in her mind, she works to understand and grow through the darkness before her. Her art is her way of processing her experience of the world. As she overcomes the battles that seem to lay before her a clarity comes over her work, and she is able to lift the veil of darkness, if for only an instant, and it is a miracle.

Currently Kim lives in Florida which is a very different place for her. She is recognizing the beauty of the land in every day and constantly working as she did when she was young, on her art and the development of her dream. While showing in many different venues in Florida, Kim is also looking to find that special place where her and her work fit in perfectly with the people and in the world. As many artists are trying to do the same thing Kim hopes that they can all find it together at exactly the same time, and where there will then exist nothing but true inspiration, creation and peace. Only here will her dream come true and she will know that she has become the greatest artist ever.

STATEMENT

“In my art I am interested in color, layers, shapes, line and form. My art is intense and full of energy and motion. I love expression and I strive to be clear within all the confusion that clutters my mind, and thus the page. I am looking for that clarity all the time. My drawings are complete ideas. They are well rounded and also complex. My installations are places in my heart. Places that I want to be, places that I feel inside of me. They are ethereal, organic, and filled with light and shadows. I love making them because I learn about myself through the whole process, and it is beautiful. My shapes are expressions of parts of ideas, or some are made up of many ideas all layered into one. They express the essence of color relationships. And the forms are organic; becoming flower-like, watery, although compacted or divided. I have many ideas in my mind, and things change so often, I am always trying to stay focused on the truth, and my work reflects that process.”