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From a recent newsletter:
Kim Foster Yardley
Kim is a newcomer artist from Johannesburg. We have recently submitted a mentorship grant through the Toronto Arts Council. I am excited to be working with her as I find her approach to painting very interesting. The work above is from an older series where she leached colour out of the faces so that they are racially ambiguous. In her current body of work, see below, she uses vibrant tones to create abstractions by smearing and blending hues. The colours themselves are exaggerations of undertones from the skin of mixed race individuals.
From her artist statement:
As a person of mixed race who grew up during apartheid in South Africa, my identity was manufactured by a political and social
system before I was born. Drawing on this and my experiences as a recent immigrant, my mixed media painting practice uses
colour to explore themes of identity, transition and the strangeness of racial categorizing.
She is @kimfosteryardley on instagram
Kim is a newcomer artist from Johannesburg. We have recently submitted a mentorship grant through the Toronto Arts Council. I am excited to be working with her as I find her approach to painting very interesting. The work above is from an older series where she leached colour out of the faces so that they are racially ambiguous. In her current body of work, see below, she uses vibrant tones to create abstractions by smearing and blending hues. The colours themselves are exaggerations of undertones from the skin of mixed race individuals.
From her artist statement:
As a person of mixed race who grew up during apartheid in South Africa, my identity was manufactured by a political and social
system before I was born. Drawing on this and my experiences as a recent immigrant, my mixed media painting practice uses
colour to explore themes of identity, transition and the strangeness of racial categorizing.
She is @kimfosteryardley on instagram
