ABOUT
Kim Elaine Gomez is a multimedia collage artist based in Valencia, CA. She works in high-contrast, low relief, minimalist pieces that explore ideas of changing identities, social justice, environmental justice, and bio futurism. Her mail art work (small-scale art work sent through the mail) is centered around play, collaboration, and exchange. Her mail art work has been exhibited in California, Tennessee, and several online mail art exhibits; she also has a piece in the Vanderbilt University Archives.
STATEMENT
My process is concerned with up-cycling and creating less waste: making use of existing magazines, advertising images, residual materials from various projects, found items, and items from reuse stores. I often use magazine images to subvert and redirect advertising and lifestyle messaging. I also work with my own photographs which are cut, collaged, and drawn onto and/or sewn as a process of showing our shifting identities and perceptions.
I was born in California and completed Linguistics and Library and Information Science degrees at UCLA: It is this landscape and mix of educational backgrounds that informs my sources and themes, which often include text (both simple statements and works of fiction), art history images, and science illustrations. I enjoy creating imagined worlds that are neither dystopian nor utopian: a landscape where we can project a future for ourselves where we are aligned with and not separate from nature. Each piece is an act of recreation, revision, re-framing, and resistance.