Kim Edwards Keast is a mixed media artist living in Tubac, Arizona with her husband, Roger, her Chihuaha, Mia, and pet birds and lizards. She loves the warmth, sunshine and desert landscape of living in Southeastern Arizona.

Born in Long Beach, Califonia and lived the majority of her life in Northern California where Kim attended Academy of Art in San Francisco, College of Marin/Kentfield and graduated with a BFA in Ceramics from California College of Arts in Oakland in 1980.

Artist Statement:

“As a multi media artist, I explore, invent, and create; a scientist in my art, combining, layering, with mixed materials and objects. My hybrid art forms are a result of this process, often inspired by the anti-ism of the Modern Art movement, Dadaism, Cubism, and Abstract Expressionism. In my work there is assemblage, disassemble, collage, de-collage, elements built up and torn down to arrive at the finished piece. Intrigued with textures, transparencies, light, and space and how these elements play against each other I become obsessed with the unknown concepts of the contemporary art movement.

What will happen next? My professional interests have been a lifelong pursuit of creating, learning, and mentoring those with similar passions. While attending art school in the Bay Area I majored in sculpture and obtained a BFA at the California College of Arts and Crafts.”
– Kim Edwards Keast

Kim is an established and prolific 3-dimensional artist who approaches her conceptual process with the idea that art never quits, that art shouldn’t always be pretty. Kim lives for experimentation, delves into directional artistic series of all types and sizes. Collections of found and unearthed objects are found in her exploratory and versatile constructions, some of which become assemblages, and towers up to 8 feet in height. She works with large pieces of wood, metal, paper, wire, paint, and resin often using encaustics as a conduit.  Her free form fiber sculptures are crocheted with yarns, fabric, and wire, into huge extra-terrestrial-like extensions.