Meet the 2020 Fellow
The Climate Science Alliance, in partnership with the Connecting Wildlands & Communities (CWC) Team at San Diego State University, was excited to host Kim Reasor as our 2020 Climate Art Fellow.
Born in London and raised in Texas and Colorado, Kim always enjoyed making art and studied life drawing and oil painting with master teachers in Denver and New Mexico before earning her BFA at Metropolitan State University. In the 1990s, she began to make oil paintings that explored the man made landscape. In 2003 she moved to San Diego and added Southern Californian sprawl and stucco to her repertoire, showing in a variety of gallery and museum shows.
She is intrigued by the tightly interwoven quality of nature and development in the region, and explored these themes in her work for the Climate Art Fellowship.
Of her art she says, “My work illuminates the overlooked and invisible through exploration of discarded landscapes and hidden worlds of science and nature.”
Products
Connected Lands. Connected People.
Art inspired by the Connecting Wildlands and Communities Project
Connected landscapes play an important role in climate resilient natural lands. In 2018, an interdisciplinary team, led by the Institute for Ecological Monitoring and Management at San Diego State University and the Climate Science Alliance, set out to explore how connected landscapes can support adaptation and resilience to climate change for both natural ecosystems and local human communities in Southern California. Using an integrative approach, the team of planners, environmental engineers, ecologists, and geographers are looking to better understand how we can optimize decision making around protecting human communities, mitigating wildfire risk, supporting water sustainability, and protecting biodiversity in the wildland-urban interface. As the 2020 Climate Art Fellow, Kim Reasor worked alongside the Connecting Wildlands and Communities team to translate the themes and results of this work into the pieces you see here.
Refuge
Kim Reasor 2020, 36" x 36" x 6", Oil and acrylic on wood, Cabinetry by Mark Title
Bio-Fragmentation
Kim Reasor 2020, Diptych, 36" x 24", Oil and acrylic on panel
Bio-Unity
Kim Reasor 2020, Diptych, 36" x 24", Oil and acrylic on panel
Fire Facets I
Kim Reasor 2020, 12" diameter on partially burned wood panel, acrylic, native plants*, invasive plants*
Fire Facets II
Kim Reasor 2020, 12" diameter on wood panel, oil, acrylic, gel medium, metal leaf, acorns
Artist's Process
Throughout the 2020 Climate Art Fellowship, Kim documented her journey working with the Connecting Wildlands and Communities team and exploring these concepts both scientifically and artistically. We invited you to follow along in the process of how these pieces were formed.
