Kim Turos
installation
April 1 – June 11

Landscape and installation artist Kim Turos' current work involves a process of combining elements collected from contrasting ecosystems with remnants from the urban infrastructure and sculpted objects made from natural as well as synthetic substances. Turos draws inspiration from the landscape surrounding her home and studio in Southern California , where the delicate tropical environment and abundant wildlife are increasingly threatened by urban growth.

 “My intent is to create a beautiful and disturbing place where the environment seems to have produced some of its own sculpture,” Turos says. Cracked segments of roadways and blown out tire treads collected in the desert reveal decaying urban elements, but also suggest organic forms and the persistence of nature.

 Kim Turos is an artist and landscape architect known for sculpture and site-specific installations. She took classes at the McNay Art Institute, San Antonio , as a child. She received a B.S. in landscape architecture from Texas A&M University and also studied at the San Francisco Art Institute and at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, in Maine . She held a Project Space residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito , California , in 2001 and earned an Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts grant the same year.

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