Kimberly Becoat
ABOUT | WORKS | EXHIBITIONS
ABOUT
Kimberly M. Becoat is a contemporary mixed media artist whose work is a stylistic abstraction with a conceptual investigation of new materials and visual experiences with social commentary.
She uses a variety of art materials including acrylic paint, sumi ink, and watercolor as well as less conventional items like sand, tar paper, foil, candy wrappers and other detritus. Her most recent abstract & conceptual work is an investigation of urban environments meant to create “urban displacement”, in public housing - aimed to surgically remove “massive amounts of Blacks and Latinos” into designated forgotten pockets of city landscapes. She reimagines these spaces in colors reflecting hood staples found in bodegas (corner stores) and street styles and urban games. Other continuing bodies of work cover conversations about the Black body as labor, consumption and industry in her Urban Hottentot and High Cotton series respectively. These works use collage and fabric and pulled cotton as their medium narrative.
Kimberly has been featured in a number of exhibits including her most recent solo exhibition, Welcome to Urbania at RUSH Arts Gallery NY, and her solo exhibit, New Abstractions at Essie Green Galleries, Capital One Bank in NY, BAMart at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, MoCADA Museum, (The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, the Deutsche Bank as well as the television shows, Netflix Original Series “Luke Cage” and the FX series, The Americans.
A few other exhibitions include: Prizm Fair, Miami, FL., In Plain Sight/Site, ArtSpace, New Haven, CT., Pressure Points, Art on the Vine, Martha's Vineyard, Dadaesque, 701 CCA Gallery (Columbia, South Carolina), Respond, SMACK Mellon Gallery, (Brooklyn, NY) Honoring Romare Bearden, The Corridor Gallery (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Crown Heights Gold, Skylight Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, and Dirty Sensibilities: A 21st Century Exploration of the New American Black South, at the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute, New York, NY
Kimberly is a native New Yorker, born in Harlem NY - and presently resides and works as an artist in Brooklyn, NY.
WORKS
URBANIA SERIES: Housing Project Landscape, 2017
Mixed media collage on paper
18 x 96 in
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High Cotton Series: Black Blood
Acrylic, oil and charcoal on canvas
20 x 16 in
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Euritmia 3, 2021
Acrylic, oil and charcoal on canvas
20 x 16 in
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Euritmia 4, 2021
Acrylic, oil and charcoal on canvas
20 x 16 in
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URBANIA SERIES: Innervisions, 2018
Acrylic sand mix & paint collage
35 x 40 in
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ADDITIONAL WORKS
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