b. 1987

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SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024

Why is the Sky So Blue?

Pirate Contemporary

Greater Denver Area

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024
2024
2024
2023
2023
2023
2023
2023
2023
2022
2019
2018
2018
2011
2011
2009
2005

Seed, curated by Michael Burnett (Space Gallery)
5 True West, curated by Michael Dowling
The Wild Bunch, curated by Ryan A. Lee
I'm So F&$#ing Bored
Annual Juried Show
Banging on the Machine
Flora & Fauna
Spring Fling Artist Showcase
Holiday Art Affair
Femmes to the Front
Sunday Funday
Denver Art Society July Show
Denver Art Society June Show
Lindsey Kuhn Collaborative Show
Wish for Wheels Charity Art Show
Mount Ida College Senior Show
Altrusa Art Fair

BRDG Project
BRDG Project
Memento Mori Gallery
East Colfax Gallery/ACAD
Pirate Contemporary
The Laboratory on Santa Fe
Memento Mori Gallery
RedLine Contemporary Art
East Colfax Gallery/ACAD
Magpie Arts Collective
#Vybe
Denver Art Society
Denver Art Society
Marion Street Tattoo & Gallery
Mario Street Tattoo & Gallery
Mount Ida College
The Art Center

Denver
Denver
Greater Denver Area
Greater Denver Area
Greater Denver Area
Denver
Greater Denver Area
Denver
Greater Denver Area
Denver
Denver
Denver
Denver
Denver
Denver
Greater Boston Area
Grand Junction (Colorado)

AWARDS

2009
2009
2005
2005

Thesis Critics Choice Award
Best in Photography
Blue Ribbon (Drawing)
Best in 2D Art Medal

Mount Ida College
Mount Ida College
Altrusa Art Fair
Fruita Monument High School

Greater Boston Area
Greater Boston Area
Grand Junction (Colorado)
Fruita (Colorado)

ARTIST LECTURES

2024

Absurdity in the American West: Tradition, Idioms, and
Obliterating the Western Myth

Pirate Contemporary

Greater Denver Area

EDUCATION

2009

Bachelor of Science

Mount Ida College

Greater 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”)

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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.”