“At the core of the human experience is the ability to connect with what is real ¬in us and in each other. It is a state of knowing what is true and good. It is a state that is more and more covered up, harder and harder to reach in this society. The act of drawing connects me to my most human self. It brings me fully into the present. “
Kim Banister’s large scale figure drawings are created in a response to a gesture or an emotion held in the human body. The drawings are created with washes and powered pigment blown onto linseed oil that encapsulates charcoal outlines of single or coupled figures. The figures have a sense of mass and volume at the same time that they seem to dissolve and merge with the paper on which they are drawn.
Kim Banister was born in 1952. In 1970, she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Fine Arts from Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA. In 1984, she received a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH. She has participated in solo and group shows throughout the Eastern region of the US. Currently, Ms. Banister is the gallery curator at Harrisburg Area Community College where she also teaches in the art department.