Kimber Berry

Kimber Berry is a Los Angeles artist, who is part of the "Flow Movement," a term coined by Art Critic (and curator) Peter Frank. Her artwork is vibrant and dynamic mixed media combining acrylics, resins and digitally altered photographs of her paint-strokes.  As a native of LA, Kimber loves to blur the line between what is real and what is illusion.  

According to Berry, the Plastic Gardens series focuses on how we live and interact with Nature.    “How are we, as a society, going to create harmony and balance with the Earth? Is the creation of plastic gardens enough to offset the damage we're doing?.. I've constructed this series of paintings inspired by these plastic gardens. Plastic refers both to the materials I use, but also to the flexibility of these organic environments to exist and take any form the gardener wishes. 

Continuing my exploration of digital and paint, reality and illusion, new and old technology to take a closer look into the duality of societal expansion and growth. Using digitally manipulated photographs of paint, natural and plastic organic plants and flowers along side and embedded in actual paint, the highly manipulated surfaces of my paintings illustrate how highly manipulated nature has become. We need to ask ourselves what is our true relationship with nature?"

She has received a lot of positive attention from art critics and curators on the West Coast and has been featured in solo and group shows in New York, LA, Atlanta and London.  She has been part of recent exhibits at the Riverside Museum and the Huntington Beach Art Center in California.  Her work is in public and private collections around the world.  Berry has been featured in Hampton's Cottages & Gardens, Ocean Home and Flaunt.  In 2013, she created an installation at Terminal 3 at LAX.