KIM FOX
Contemporary Folk Art
Inspired by her urban surroundings and the natural Pennsylvania landscape, Fox creates contemporary quilts in non-traditional materials; her process of cutting apart tins and sourcing wood is as much a part of the art as the assemblage of the pieces. Growing up in rural Western Pennsylvania informed her aesthetic, subject matter, and choice of materials.
Fox has been making art and showing her work — which began with more traditional painting and collage when she lived in Florida — for more than 17 years. After moving back to Pennsylvania and reclaiming her roots, she started to explore regional arts and crafts with a more rural bent. For nearly a decade she’s been working with vintage tins and salvaged wood and patchworking the material in a way that feels like quilting.
Fox has taken part in exhibitions at museums and galleries such as The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA; the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Atrium Gallery, Providence, RI; and the A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, among others. In addition to making her art, Fox is an art teacher in regional schools in Western Pennsylvania and also is a designer and illustrator, all of which lend a hand to the intricate designs and techniques found in her quilts.
EXHIBITIONS
Stratigraphy, Moss Architects, 2019
Handwork, Society for Contemporary Craft/BNY Mellon Gallery, 2018-2019
Quilt + Resist: Art, Politics, Storytelling, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2018
Tin is the New Black, Stifle Arts Center, Wheeling, WV, 2018
Beyond the Bed Covers, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2017
Memory Quilt Collage, Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Atrium Gallery, Providence, RI, 2017
John Riegert, Space Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, 2016
New Order: Collage Now, Future Tenant Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, 2016
Exposures, The Warhol, 2015
Red Horse Press Print Show, Oxbow Gallery, Northampton, MA, 2010
Prints Charming, Wildcard, Pittsburgh, PA 2010
AWARDS AND GRANTS
Bridgeway Capital Grant, 2018
Artist Opportunity Grant, Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council, 2017
Mark Stein Memorial Jury Prize, 2015
Emerging Artist Scholarship, Three Rivers Arts Festival, 2015
Finalist, Martha Stewart American Made Awards, October 2014
Communication Arts Illustration Annual, 2004
Print Magazine, Regional Design Annual, 2004
PRESS
“Shows to See,” American Craft Council magazine, December 2018-January 2019
Pooja Galgali, “Art That Required Handiwork,” Alaska Beyond magazine, December 2018
Brooke Wyatt, “Gendered spaces, materials, forms ... and their transformation,” Constellations, 2018
Janine Vangool, “A Story of Uppercase Connections,” Uppercase, October 3, 2017
Joanne Klimovich Harrop, “Single focus inspires unusual exhibit at downtown gallery,” Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, August 30, 2016
Alexandra Oliver, “John Riegert, John Riegert, and 252 artists of Pittsburgh,” Glassblock web magazine, July 27, 2016
Mundania Horvath, “New Order: Collage Now,” Steeltown Anthem blog, June 1, 2016
Sabrina Romano, “Handcrafted Holiday,” November 30, 2015
Jessica Sinichak, “Show some love with these tin hearts,” Pittsburgh Magazine, August 25, 2015
Kelly Beall, “PGH Maker Profile: Worker Bird,” Design Crush blog, July 29, 2015
Pittsburgh Today Live segment, KDKA-CBS, June 2015
Dave Zuchowski, “Winding route leads to art career for Mt. Lebanon resident,” PIttsburgh Post-Gazette, May 15, 2015
“A window to art,” Carnegie Magazine, Spring 2015
Liz Petoniak, “Take flight,” Whirl Magazine, January 2015
Jessica Bryce Young, “Bringing home the honey,” Orlando Weekly, March 2, 2006
LECTURES AND WORKSHOPS
Instructor, STEAM Carnival Tin Quilt Assemblage workshop, Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, 2019
Instructor, Crafts & Drafts Workshop, Society for Contemporary Craft, 2016, 2017, 2018
Presenter, Pittsburgh Society of Illustrators, 2017
Presenter, Craft Business Speaker Series, Creator Square, Johnstown, PA, 2017
Instructor, Repurposed Art Workshop, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, 2016
Lecture, Mt. Lebanon Public Library, 2015
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
AIGA, member, 2019-present
Three Rivers Arts Festival Advisory Committee member, 2019-present
Pittsburgh Society of Illustrators, 2019- present
Woman Made Gallery, member, Chicago, IL 2018-present
Photography (with very few exceptions) by Matt Dayak
Contact
131 Academy Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15228
theworkerbird@gmail.com
412-889-3507