Kim Ouellette

Kim Ouellette was born in Winnipeg, Canada and has lived in Atlanta since 2004. She has exhibited in galleries and institutions in Canada, Scotland and the U.S. since 1985.

"Laying lines down across the canvas is for me a physical act, a bodily relationship to the canvas’s materiality and space, experimenting with different brushes and hand pressure without planning or overt intentionality. The space created is both meditative and unresolved––something to which I can react, improvise with. 

Closely drawn lines also refers to narrow limitations, a tidiness.  Though the draftsmanship of my lines is at times obsessive, my work wants to challenge these impulses. I want the viewer to have a moment of surprise and delight from these works: like finding something unusual in nature, not expected and moving. "

-Kim Oullette, 2024

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