Meet Youth Insights Artist in Residence: Christine Kim
Nov 6, 2009

This semester, the Whitney welcomes Christine Kim as the Artist-in-Residence for the Youth Insights (YI) Artists teen program.

Kim received her MFA in Studio Art from the School of Visual Arts in 2006. Her work has been included in numerous group exhibitions in the United States and abroad, and she recently completed a residency with the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Swing Space program.

Christine has been deaf since birth and communicates in American Sign Language (ASL). For the past two years, she has worked as an educator with the Whitney Signs program, but this is her first time working with hearing teens using a voice interpreter.

Kim’s most recent works explore her relationship with sound through experiments with “Seismic Calligraphy”—using vibration to move pigments, paints, ink, and other materials to create colorful, abstract works on paper that visualize sound. Kim documents her experiments with video.

In conjunction with the exhibition, Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstraction, Kim introduced YI teens to her work, and started developing ideas about communication, expression, and perception with them. The teens have commented on how fun and inspiring Christine is, and that she is changing their ideas about what art can be. They are now beginning to work on their own experiments with sound and abstraction.

By Danielle Linzer