Visiting Artist Talk: Kim Neudorf
Nov 16, 5:00 PM–7:00 PM
Art Gallery of Guelph
358 Gordon St, Guelph, ON N1G 1Y1, Canada
Free
Organized by SOFAM (University of Guelph MFA in Studio Art)
SOFAM is pleased to invite you to the first speaker in our 26/27 Visiting Artists and Speakers Series: Kim Neudorf.
Kim Neudorf (he/him) is a queer, trans artist and writer based in London, ON. His writing and paintings explore themes of resilience, healing, and survival, while seeking to undo easy legibility in order to honor the daily, more complicated modes of visibility and existence. Neudorf completed his BFA from Alberta University of the Arts in 2005 and his MFA from Western University in 2012. His work has appeared most recently at Museum London, London, ON; the plumb, Toronto; The Next Contemporary, Toronto; Harkawik, New York, NY; Evans Contemporary Gallery, Peterborough; and Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto.
In this Talk, Kim Neudorf reflects on his practice working from a loosely autobiographical archive of texts, images, and studio research: eyes, arms and hands; scenes, practical effects, and ephemera from horror and horror-adjacent films; past and present transmasculine roots as emotional architecture; these cinematic moments, affects, and visual textures instigate new forms, new holes, new language.
Collage often initiates Neudorf’s material and formal process. By assembling fragments of imagery, he considers how experience and identity can be expressed through multiplicity. As a queer and transmasculine artist, this method becomes a way for him to push back against narrow expectations of how queerness and transness are often expected to be represented. His paintings, both visually and conceptually, refuse the idea that art or artists must conform to binary standards of legibility.