b. 1987
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
Why is the Sky So Blue?Pirate ContemporaryGreater Denver Area
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Seed, curated by Michael Burnett (Space Gallery)
BRDG Project
Denver
2024
5 True West, curated by Michael Dowling
BRDG Project
Denver
2024
The Wild Bunch, curated by Ryan A. Lee
Memento Mori Gallery
Denver
2024
I'm So F&$#ing Bored
East Colfax Gallery/ACAD
Greater Denver Area
2023
Annual Juried Show
Pirate Contemporary
Greater Denver Area2023
Banging on the Machine
The Laboratory on Santa Fe
Denver2023
Flora & Fauna
Memento Mori Gallery
Greater Denver Area
2023
Spring Fling Artist Showcase
RedLine Contemporary Art
Denver
2023
Holiday Art Affair
Magpie Arts Collective
Denver
2022
Femmes to the Front
RedLine Contemporary Art
Denver2019
Sunday Funday
#Vybe
Denver2018
Denver Art Society July Show
Denver Art Society
Denver2018
Denver Art Society June Show
Denver Art Society
Denver2011
Wish for Wheels Charity Art Show
Marion Street Tattoo & Gallery
Denver2011
Lindsey Kuhn Collaborative Show
Marion Street Tattoo & Gallery
Denver2009
Mount Ida College Senior Show
Mount Ida College
Greater Boston Area2005
Altrusa Art Fair
The Art Center
Grand Junction (Colorado)
CURATORIAL EXPERIMENTS
2025
Dis/Embodied Power
Pirate Contemporary
Greater Denver Area
AWARDS
2009
Thesis Critics Choice Award
Mount Ida College
Greater Boston Area
2009Best in PhotographyMount Ida College
Greater Boston Area2005Blue Ribbon (Drawing)
Altrusa Art Fair
Grand Junction (Colorado)
2005Best in 2D Art Medal
Fruita Monument High School
Fruita (Colorado)
ARTIST LECTURES
2024
Absurdity in the American West: Tradition, Idioms, and
Obliterating the Western MythPirate ContemporaryGreater Denver Area
EDUCATION
2009
Bachelor of ScienceMount Ida CollegeGreater Boston Area
PRESS
“ALL THE BEST SHOWS TO SEE IN DENVER ON FIRST FRIDAY”
WESTWORD
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“Pirate’s current shows opened last weekend, but the gallery will still be hopping on First Friday, with Louis Recchia’s well-loved pop imagery (which has been collected in Denver for years) and his guest and partner Zoa Ace, also a local favorite, sharing space. But, painter Kimberly Faber’s work is a major release and no less exciting to see, comprising a series of large-scale paintings inspired by her research and sense of place regarding the American West, where she grew up. Faber chose a personal approach to illustrating cowboy truisms, including the stereotypical view of Western art itself; the result, presented using large canvases, sculpture and film, explores what’s real and not real about invented historical contrivances in art. Faber will discuss the show during an artist talk at 7 p.m. on October 10.”
EP. 179 “RYAN A. LEE” (JUROR FOR “THE WILD BUNCH”)
TENET PODCAST
Timestamps: 1:25:22 - 1:28:53
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“There was some real edgy stuff at [“The Wild Bunch”], almost pornographic edgy on some of these pieces, but I gave the [woman] credit because it was bold.
What’s it mean to be bold as an artist?
Not shocking. Bold means still doing something that’s still visually pleasing that’s different... There’s so much unoriginality now that I guess bold just means doing something different... This particular [woman], it was a Western show, she did a nude, but the way she did it it’s got the sheriff’s star on it and then on the other one it’s got ejaculating phalluses everywhere. But, she did it in a Western way, and it was really uncomfortable to look at, but it was really cool because it jumped out.
So, who was the artist?
Kimberly...
Kimberly Faber?
That’s it. And, I haven’t looked at her personal work, but she entered some pieces in the show and that I would describe as bold for sure.
It’s so funny, I actually had a conversation with her at an opening earlier this summer, and I wasn’t even sure that she was part of this exhibition that you juried, but sitting right next to my desk is her business card, and I’ve been meaning to contact her to do a studio visit because our discussion was so interesting and a little bit out there that I was like ‘alright, I’ve gotta explore what she’s up to.’ And, I see that card every time I come to the studio and so I think that’s the universe telling me that I need to go do a studio visit with her.
I would. I talked to her that night and she, just from what I can tell in this short amount of time, she’s really intelligent, like the things she was telling me about the art in [“The Wild Bunch”] and even my own art shocked me, and she’s one of these people that knows art and knows about it without trying to build themselves up as some kind of connoisseur. She was really, I think from just that short time that I talked to her and met her, I think she’d probably be a fascinating person to talk to.”