kim kimball
	enthusiasm video and installation 8 september - 9 october, 2000     enthusiasm installation view @ pierogi     Enthusiasm is a multi-media, three-monitor presentation whose centerpiece is seventy-five minutes of videotape consisting of short video works, (some of which were produced as a member of the Four Walls Slide and Film Club). Kimball uses repetition, digression, and (often self-deprecating) humor and pathos to establish an unsettling relationship to the viewer via the subject matter. In the videos Kimball performs alone before a stationary camera in the tight quarters of his New York apartment amidst a chaotic plethora of his creations. The installation consists of hanging objects, drawings, paintings and photo-based works that relate either directly or conceptually to the videos. The gallery will become an extension of KimballÕs fabricated world mimicking aspects of his environments. Think color. My background was in painting, now my paintings are my backgrounds. Backgrounds for his videos that is. Kimball began his art career as a painter, after receiving his B.A. from Western Illinois University and attending U.C. San Diego. In 1983 he moved to New York and by 1996 was working primarily in video. In this show he has invited all of his influences to bear and in doing so has developed a potent, intrinsic ÒKimboleanÓ illogic which makes complete sense.
	P   I   E   R   O   G   I     2   0   0   0 177 north 9th street brooklyn, ny 11211 718.599.2144 noon to 6p friday through monday and by appointment pierogi 2000 is an innovative art gallery in williamsburg, brooklyn, new york