Animalia: Beyond Human

Animalia: Beyond Human is a solo exhibition of Kimberly Lang’s new paintings and sculpture featuring figures, animals, and hybrids. This exhibition, influenced by worldly travel, explores anthropomorphism and personification through an experimental approach with mixed media.

Kimberly Lang’s new paintings question our natural human-animal instincts, female identity, and social constructivism. These mixed media works are primarily black and white with faint washes of color that add a touch of sweetness to the strong physicality of dark expressive mark-making with visceral layers. Lang uses an innovative technique of layering shredded paper samples and rearranging them on the surface with a combination of acrylic, ink, and colored pencils. Portraits of isolated women, animals, and masks morph together creating a new identity that suggests the presence of “the other” using hidden images left for the viewer to decipher.