Kim Luttrell

About Kim Luttrell

Kim Luttrell has persisted in her journey to create marvelously compelling artwork. Her seemingly endless ideas come from the artist's willingness to explore and mine her eccentric imagination.

Kim Luttrell has persisted in her journey to create marvelously compelling artwork. Her seemingly endless ideas come from the artist's willingness to explore and mine her eccentric imagination. Luttrell's recent pieces, labor-intensive, labyrinth-like works, consist of thousands of cut cards. Upon close view they reveal their extremely complex and tortuous structure; from afar they tell a story, often with a profound political or philosophical message. Along with these works, Luttrell's abstract forms hold the viewer's attention with waves of infinitesimal colors of intensity. Raised in Kentucky, Luttrell left home to become a fine artist. She attended Ringling School of Fine Art and Design in Sarasota, Florida. Although Kim majored in Graphic Design and worked in this field after leaving school, she knew she was on a predetermined path to New York City. After arriving in NY in 1991, she started a business creating 3-dimensional functional works, which lasted for six years. Kim currently works from her studio in Long Island City, New York. Luttrell has allowed herself to appreciate the fragments, both past and present, of her life and bring them into her mind as she drives through her work. The smallest remembranceÑa snapshot passed by, a phrase heard in conversation, an accidental happenstanceÑall evoke ideas and spark Luttrell's imagination. "My work is both a blend of inspiration and compulsion," says Luttrell. "I find my ideas thrusting me further into a seemingly endless day. Those days become further filled with genuine excitement as I see my creations grow in complexity. My thoughts can then be brought to those who view my work, leaving words unnecessary in the telling of my stories." Luttrell's works are in corporate and private collections throughout the United States, Holland, Israel, Australia, Argentina, England, Brazil, China, Japan and Republic of Guinea. She has participated in solo and group shows in New York and was a featured artist at the House and Garden Showhouse in New Jersey's Havemeyer Mansion. Kim was also the topic of an independent documentary produced by an Australian filmmaker. Her work has been added to the permanent archives of the Library and Research Center of the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC.

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