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Kim Kauffman
Illumitones
April 9, 2011 through May 28, 2011
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 9, 4-6pm
Lectures: Saturday, April 9, 2:00- 2:45, 3:00-3:45
Portfolio Reviews: Sunday, April 10, 9am - 5pm
Photos: Jack Wasserbach
We had a lot of fun - and learned about abstract photography - at the lectures and opening for the exhibition of Kim Kauffman's abstract, cameraless imagery.
Check out the catalog which CPA produced to accompany this exhibit. It's fantastic!
Rick McGarrity was the winner of the grand prize of our raffle in which Kim Kauffman generously donated one of her images titled Arabesque. Tracy Hagen, Neal Swanson, John Olin, Nick Papadakis and
Rick Chelew all won Lenswork Extended DVDs of Illumitones. All raffle proceeds will benefit CPA.
Bebop, © 2008 Kim Kauffman. All rights reserved. 
Third Stream, © 2009 Kim Kauffman. All rights reserved.
Biography
Kim Kauffman has been making photographs for over 30 years.
Armed with a rangefinder camera and basic darkroom lessons, Kim explored photography informally in college. After graduating she took an interim job in a community college photography program. She
served as lab manager, instructor and student simultaneously. Later she worked as a photographer’s assistant. In 1983 she opened a studio making photography her full-time endeavor.
Recording her immediate surroundings, developing an abstract vision and exploring alternative processes are strong threads throughout
Kim’s photography. Her recurring subjects include architectural abstractions, details of her immediate space, images based on her garden and, most recently, photo-collages that distill the
essentials of human seeing as played out through abstraction. This last body of work, known as Illumitones, is the subject of the current exhibit at the Center for Photographic Art.
Artist’s Statement: Illumitones
This body of work, begun in 2007, represents my most recent exploration of abstraction – a vision that has informed my photography since I first picked up a camera. Differing from my earlier
abstract photographs of found subject matter, these are “cameraless” photo-collages. They reflect the evolution of cameraless photography from Fox Talbot’s light drawings to Moholy-Nagy’s photograms but
represent a contemporary approach. They are not about a particular subject but are expressions of the elements of composition that all artists work with: line, form, light and shadow, movement,
repetition, symmetry, and space. Through abstraction, the subject is transformed; becoming a vehicle for organic and geometric studies – distilling the intrinsic elements of the human endeavor of making art.
Lecture: Illumitones: Explorations in Abstraction
Kim Kauffman describes her ongoing exploration of abstraction through a selection of
work from the 1970's to her current body of work, Illumitones. She’ll also show examples
of other photographers' abstract work throughout the history of photography, addressing the place for abstraction in an inherently descriptive medium.
Lecture: Cameraless Imagery: Modern Methods Continue a Tradition
Kim Kauffman will demonstrate via a slide presentation the cameraless image capture and
photo-collage processes that she uses to create her Illumitones images. She’ll also discuss the history of cameraless imagery and collage from the birth of photography to the present.
Curator, Kim Kauffman: Illumitones, Howard Bossen, Ph.D.
The Illumitones exhibition was curated by Howard Bossen, Ph.D. Bossen is a professor in the School of Journalism, Michigan State University and adjunct photography curator at the Michigan
State University Museum. His publications include Luke Swank: Modernist Photographer, a rediscovery of one of the early explorers of modernism, and Henry Holmes Smith: Man of Light, a study of the
pioneering educator, critic and practitioner of cameraless photography.
Portfolio Reviews
Kim Kauffman will be reviewing portfolios on Sunday, April 10th, at the Sunset Center in Carmel. Reviews will be free for CPA members. There will be a $20.00 charge for non-members.
Appointments and payments must be made in advance by calling the CPA office at 831-625-5181 during business hours.
Raffle for Kauffman Print to Benefit CPA
Kim Kauffman has generously donated one of her images titled Arabesque for a raffle that will be held at the opening of
her exhibition at CPA. The opening is from 4:00 - 6:00 pm on Saturday, April 9th. There will be also be drawings for
five other prizes. You'll want to buy some tickets and be on hand for all the fun! You do not have to be present to win. Raffle tickets will sell to CPA members for these prices: 3 tickets for $5, 7 tickets for $10. The non-member ticket prices will
be: $5 each, 3 for $10. All proceeds will benefit CPA.
Illumitones
This catalog accompanies the exhibition which contains 24 of the images from the exhibition as well as an essay by the curator, Howard Bossen, Ph.D.
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