https://khrd.studio khrd.studio Fri, 04 Apr 2025 21:01:35 +0000 https://khrd.studio en https://khrd.studio/Works Fri, 04 Apr 2025 21:01:35 +0000 khrd.studio https://khrd.studio/Works <img width="5551" height="6939" width_o="5551" height_o="6939" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a9ed61fa7d6a5f93c5cdc24448969e136313892e61b19be0bb30cd2fa263fda4/Kimberly-Pit-11.jpg" data-mid="242235705" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a9ed61fa7d6a5f93c5cdc24448969e136313892e61b19be0bb30cd2fa263fda4/Kimberly-Pit-11.jpg" /> <img width="8688" height="5792" width_o="8688" height_o="5792" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9187fb69ebd6b67c23afcdd56e99b4b49da9ded4f3de345a04e916ba6ed0e565/Kimberly-Pit-1.jpg" data-mid="241223442" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9187fb69ebd6b67c23afcdd56e99b4b49da9ded4f3de345a04e916ba6ed0e565/Kimberly-Pit-1.jpg" /><img width="4910" height="6137" width_o="4910" height_o="6137" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/419c39433fbe261b2602b6b8f08a9e06565731d9d0a2c31a34a13468153c05c3/Kimberly-Pit-27.jpg" data-mid="242235702" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/419c39433fbe261b2602b6b8f08a9e06565731d9d0a2c31a34a13468153c05c3/Kimberly-Pit-27.jpg" /><img width="1638" height="2048" width_o="1638" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/de7b8605d5d7df4435ed487065ef0d9d27da96d97d8e677b6813fd0cc718936c/Kimberly-Pit-24.jpg" data-mid="241223437" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/de7b8605d5d7df4435ed487065ef0d9d27da96d97d8e677b6813fd0cc718936c/Kimberly-Pit-24.jpg" /><img width="7112" height="5690" width_o="7112" height_o="5690" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b356168084460a76fc0e1d414593f8f4a8167f34dae1af9d6a0bc67b746de32e/Kimberly-Pit-6.jpg" data-mid="241114203" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b356168084460a76fc0e1d414593f8f4a8167f34dae1af9d6a0bc67b746de32e/Kimberly-Pit-6.jpg" /><img width="7240" height="5792" width_o="7240" height_o="5792" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7d4d5170ea5baef6d9473df14030b6e5f3d230789d124a09e5a60575691ffc90/Kimberly-Pit-8.jpg" data-mid="241114204" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7d4d5170ea5baef6d9473df14030b6e5f3d230789d124a09e5a60575691ffc90/Kimberly-Pit-8.jpg" /><img width="5498" height="6874" width_o="5498" height_o="6874" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/66b44be46299c707e31a71a6ff2007189404733ce1abbd116309e56877b5c6b8/Kimberly-Pit-20.jpg" data-mid="242235704" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/66b44be46299c707e31a71a6ff2007189404733ce1abbd116309e56877b5c6b8/Kimberly-Pit-20.jpg" /><img width="6012" height="7514" width_o="6012" height_o="7514" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/10dbed3b21048440c716d71ae183af5241211f75fd6615cc1458b665285c9b20/Kimberly-Pit-21.jpg" data-mid="242235956" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/10dbed3b21048440c716d71ae183af5241211f75fd6615cc1458b665285c9b20/Kimberly-Pit-21.jpg" /><img width="5792" height="7240" width_o="5792" height_o="7240" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d6b28ce9e1837e1d0984280dc34db34ade7ef5219eea7297fdffc821a3c0a8a7/Kimberly-Pit-22.jpg" data-mid="242235955" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d6b28ce9e1837e1d0984280dc34db34ade7ef5219eea7297fdffc821a3c0a8a7/Kimberly-Pit-22.jpg" /> <img width="4000" height="4000" width_o="4000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/75f08b316b3ca5750473dcf90b8d2026ec9814763ee29fff4f6cd0ca02d4fa75/As-Symbol---Concept--13.png" data-mid="229421848" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/75f08b316b3ca5750473dcf90b8d2026ec9814763ee29fff4f6cd0ca02d4fa75/As-Symbol---Concept--13.png" /><img width="4000" height="4000" width_o="4000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d87f607928bf654f2e844c4abb61446e07b9da8de2e74dc48f76245d723c52e7/As-Symbol---Concept--12.png" data-mid="229292841" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d87f607928bf654f2e844c4abb61446e07b9da8de2e74dc48f76245d723c52e7/As-Symbol---Concept--12.png" /><img width="3125" height="3125" width_o="3125" height_o="3125" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ecc0dc9a53d5ce3cd1fb56a6662756f0fb94a0f1789df5cf034a7eb607fb54c9/As-Symbol---Concept--3.png" data-mid="229421849" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ecc0dc9a53d5ce3cd1fb56a6662756f0fb94a0f1789df5cf034a7eb607fb54c9/As-Symbol---Concept--3.png" /> https://khrd.studio/Words Sun, 02 Oct 2022 17:50:05 +0000 khrd.studio https://khrd.studio/Words Conditions matter. I work from the belief that nothing we move through is neutral. My practice investigates how perception is shaped through color, surface, and material, with particular attention to the moments when recognition begins to falter. I am less interested in what an image represents than in how it comes into being, and how long it can resist settling into something fully known. Working primarily in painting, I build surfaces through staining, layering, and erasure, allowing forms to emerge gradually rather than be imposed. Figures appear, but they do not fully resolve. They hover within fields of color and residue, held in a state of partial legibility. In this way, the body is not depicted as a fixed image, but encountered as something sensed, contingent, and unstable. Color functions as both structure and disruption. It carries the weight of the figure while simultaneously dispersing it, creating pressure between what is seen and what can be held. I am interested in how material behaves over time, how it absorbs, resists, and reveals, and how these behaviors shape the conditions of looking. Drips, stains, and shifts in opacity are not incidental but integral, marking the painting as a site where meaning is delayed rather than delivered. My work resists the assumption that seeing produces understanding. Instead, it asks what it means to remain with an image that does not fully resolve, where recognition is incomplete and continually renegotiated. Within this space, the act of looking becomes durational, and meaning emerges not through immediate clarity, but through sustained attention.Kimberly R. Heard is a research based visual artist working across painting, sculpture, and installation. Her practice investigates how perception is conditioned by the environments bodies move through, attending to moments when visual recognition gives way to more diffuse forms of sensing. Through fragmentation, coded imagery, and layered material processes, she explores how color, surface, and structure can hold multiple temporal and affective states within a single image. Heard is currently completing her MFA in Painting at the Yale School of Art. She is the recipient of the 2025 Robert Schoelkopf Memorial Traveling Fellowship and a 2026 nominee for the AICAD Post Graduate Teaching Fellowship. Her work has been exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Art San Diego, Bread &amp; Salt Gallery, and as part of PST ART: Art &amp; Science Collide. Her work is included in the City of San Diego Civic Art Collection. Heard has delivered artist lectures at&nbsp;Colorado State University,&nbsp;Eastern Connecticut State University, and the University of California, San Diego. She enjoys quietude, home-cooked meals, zinemaking, and the sound that leaves make when they encounter rain. Email:khrdstudio@gmail.com <img width="2262" height="3847" width_o="2262" height_o="3847" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bb18bc88ae4e672adcbc0c54e02f7bb85e100a222ff44039d7de917e64162c67/IMG_2939.JPG" data-mid="236246861" border="0" data-scale="56" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bb18bc88ae4e672adcbc0c54e02f7bb85e100a222ff44039d7de917e64162c67/IMG_2939.JPG" /> Related ProjectsAs Symbol &amp; Concept ︎︎︎ Dehiscence&nbsp;︎︎︎ https://khrd.studio/CV-1 Sat, 04 Feb 2023 23:17:09 +0000 khrd.studio https://khrd.studio/CV-1 Upcoming ExhibitionsSomehow DesirePainting/Printmaking MFA Thesis Exhibition (Group 1) January 17 - 27, 2026 Green Hall Gallery, New Haven, CT Public reception: Friday, January 23rd from 6–8 PM Selected Exhibitions Tender is the NightJanuary 2026 - February 2026Picture Theory Projects, New York, NYOpening Reception: January 15, 6–8 PM Time Again September, 2025 Green Hall Gallery, New Haven, CT The 11th Hour May 202532 Edgewood Gallery, New Haven, CT Embodied Pacific: Three Lives ExhibitionSeptember 2024 - December 2024 Getty PST ART,&nbsp;Gallery QI, La Jolla, CA The Last Group Show November 2023 - December 2023 Bread &amp; Salt Gallery, San Diego, CA SD Practice July - September 2021 SDAI, San Diego, CA&nbsp; +/- An Exhibition on Negative Space&nbsp; September 2019Lux Art Institute, Encinitas, CA Public CollectionsCivic Art Collection 2021City of San Diego, San Diego, CAEducationYale School of Art MFA Candidate ‘26 Painting/PrintmakingUniversity of California, San Diego 2017 – 2019 Bachelor of Visual Arts Grossmont College 2012 – 2017 Associate of Digital Art / Studio Art / Humanities Fellowships &amp; Awards AICAD Post-Graduate Teaching Fellowship Nominee, 2026 - 2027 Robert Schoelkoph Traveling Fellowship 2025 ContributionsWhitney Biennial 2022: Quiet As It's Kept Danielle DeanApril - Oct 2022Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Panels &amp; SpeakingOn Critique: with&nbsp;Anoka Faruqee, Professor, Painting/Printmaking, Associate Dean, Maria De Los Angeles, Critic, Assistant Director of Graduate Studies, Painting/Printmaking, Sam Contis, Senior Critic, Photography, lead faculty of Interdepartmental Group Critique, Sandra Burns, Senior Critic, Assistant Director of Graduate Studies, Sculpture, Leslie Dick, Senior Critic, Interdisciplinary, Kimberly Heard, Class of ‘26 Student Representative, Painting/Printmaking, Camille Gwise, Class of ‘26 Student Representative, Graphic Design, Christopher Postlewaite, Class of ‘26 Student Representative, Photography, Cameron Downey, Class of ‘26 Student Representative, SculptureYale School of Art Artist Lecture Affect Theory, FA 2025 Yale School of Art Employment / WorkshopsVisiting Artist, Lecture SP 26 Eastern Connecticut State University Visiting Artist, Lecture SP 26 University of California, San Diego Teaching Asst., SP 2026Basic Drawing Yale School of ArtTeaching Asst., FA 2025Basic Drawing Yale School of Art Optical Color Workshop, FA 2025 Yale School of ArtInterdepartmental Office Asst., SP 2025Office of the Dean Yale School of ArtVisiting Artist, Lecture FA 2025 Colorado State University Elected RolesVisiting Artist Student Representative2025 - 2026 Painting Dept. Student Representative 2025 - 2026 Related ProjectsAs Symbol &amp; Concept ︎︎︎ Dehiscence&nbsp;︎︎︎