Kim Bruce

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"She combines gender sysmbols such as hair and high heel shoes with icons of labour such as railway spikes and kitchen aprons to evoke the sense of long term struggle towards equality.

Olav Rokne, Saint City News; Challenging Gender Roles; June 8, 2007

"Bruce works with icons of domestic femininity; wedding dresse, aprons, hair brushes, all re-imagined into other forms".

Mari Sasano; "Domestic goddesses still have stereotypes to sweep away"; The Edmonton Journal Friday, June 8, 2007

Michelle Falkenstein, The New York Times,
Creating Unusual Paints, and Teaching Artists How to Use Them, December 31, 2006

Drawing on her architectural training, Kim Bruce’s wax encaustics include images of blueprints of the Statue that "are representational of the 12 Steps up to Liberty and the underlying foundation."

Christa O’Keefe, See Magazine, Ladies on Lady, May25-31, 2006 #652 Edmonton

Harcourt House - web article

"Her ephemeral, delicate and fragile forms critique the fallacy of permanence and the arrogance of monumentality. Bruce's works stand as temporary flowering of humble gesters and anonymous hands, odoes to the poetic beauty of transience."

Reinhard Skoracki; Curator; MinARTure Catalogue

"The works of Calgary-based artist Kim Bruce illustrate this point in the most elegant fashion. The former interior designer now full time artist creates sculptures that provoke musings about her state of physical, emotional and spiritual well-being and ultimately, our own."

Wes LaFortune, ffwd,
It's a small world: Vol 9 No 10, Feb 12, 2004

"Kim Bruce combines wax, nails, and pieces from nature to reflect humankind and the dichotomy between its fragility and resilience."

Karoline Czerski,
Who says size doesn't matter? The Gauntlet, Vol 44, Issue #26; Jan 22/04

Parallel Lines, Catalogue

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