ARTIST BIO:
Kevin Palme is an artist based in Asheville, NC. He earned a BA in Studio Art from Wake Forest University and an MFA in Painting from the Savannah College of Art and Design. His work contemplates the temporal nature of existence and the plastic and abstract qualities paint as a material. Borrowing techniques from diverse periods in art history, Palme's work features elements of tight representational painting as well as non-objective painting and minimalism. His current series of paintings of melting ice cubes focuses on a temporary subject matter as metaphor and the irony of making a still life of a fundamentally ephemeral object. CV: Education 2003 Master of Fine Arts, Painting
Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia 1998 Bachelor of Arts, Studio Art
Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina Selected Exhibition History (*solo shows marked by asterisk) 2018 * Fragments. Corazon Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico 2018 * Magic. Kai Lin Art, Atlanta, Georgia 2017 * Spectrum. Kai Lin Art, Atlanta, Georgia 2017 * For the Time Being. The Rymer Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee 2017 2017 North Carolina Artists Exhibition. Raleigh Fine Arts Society, Raleigh, North Carolina 2017 Attention to Detail. Robert Lange Studios, Charleston, South Carolina 2016 Fresh. Kai Lin Art, Atlanta, Georgia 2016 Hambridge Art Auction and Field Experiment Gala. Goat Farm Arts Center, Atlanta, Georgia 2016 Intersections. The Junction, Asheville, North Carolina 2015 2015 North Carolina Artists Exhibition. Raleigh Fine Arts Society, Raleigh, North Carolina 2014 Blue Ridge Community College Faculty Exhibition. Blue Ridge Community College, Flat Rock, North Carolina 2014 *New Cyanotypes. The Junction, Asheville, North Carolina 2014 *Relationships. Waterworks Visual Art Center, Salisbury, North Carolina 2013 Blue Ridge Community College Faculty Exhibition. Blue Ridge Community College, Flat Rock, North Carolina 2013 Seeing is Believing: The Collection of Ray Griffin and Thom Robinson. The Upstairs Artspace, Tryon, North Carolina 2012-13 Perspectives, Layers and Visions. Southern Appalachian Brewery, Hendersonville, North Carolina 2012 * Horizons and Passages. Revive, Asheville, North Carolina 2012 Blue Ridge Community College Faculty Exhibition. Blue Ridge Community College, Flat Rock, North Carolina 2012 * Recent Smaller Works. Asheville Art Supply, Asheville, North Carolina 2011 * The Fire Series. Revive, Asheville, North Carolina 2011 Wake Forest University Chi Omega Parents’Weekend Auction. Graylyn International Conference
Center, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 2011 * Paintings. The Junction, Asheville, North Carolina 2011 Exhibiting Artist. Van Dyke Jewelry and Fine Craft, Asheville, North Carolina 2010 Entitled to Live: An Unfiltered View of New Orleans. Artfully Aware and Collective World Art
Community, New Orleans, Louisiana 2010 Art Spill: Disaster, Art, Activism and Recovery. Collective World Art Community, New Orleans, Louisiana 2010 Exhibiting Artist, Summer 2010. Alan Avery Art Company, Atlanta, Georgia 2010 Blue Ridge Community College Faculty Exhibition. Blue Ridge Community College, Flat Rock, North Carolina 2010 Illumination. Desotorow Gallery, Savannah, Georgia 2009 Blue Ridge Community College Faculty Exhibition. Blue Ridge Community College, Flat Rock, North Carolina 2007 The Art of Our Community Colleges. The Arts Council of Henderson County, Hendersonville, North Carolina 2007 The Color Show. (With Leslie Keller and Meg Winnecour) Asheville Area Arts Council Front
Gallery, Asheville, North Carolina 2006 Opposites Attract. Mendenhall Building, Davidson County Community College, Lexington, North Carolina 2005 * Featured Artist. Wine Ruels, Marion, North Carolina 2003-04 Vivid. Savannah Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia; Red Gallery, Savannah, Georgia 2003 * Fall Exhibition. Aiken Center for the Arts, Aiken, South Carolina 2003 Points of Departure. (With Fred Jesser and Martina Nehrling) Creative Arts Guild, Dalton, Georgia 2003 * Four Conversations. (MFA Thesis Show) Starland Art District, Savannah, Georgia 2003 Flow. (Collaboration with Aaron Bernard, Brett Callero, and Michael Scoggins) Aquaspace, Savannah, Georgia 2003 Big Picture Show. Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia Curatorial Experience 2012-13 Curator for Perspectives, Layers and Visions - Southern Appalachian Brewery, Hendersonville, North Carolina 2011 Co-Curator for Pastiche and Provenance - Slocumb Galleries, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee and Hot Iron Studios, Asheville, North Carolina 2010 Co-Curator for Living In Dig Nation and Axiomatic, by Brett Callero - Hot Iron Studios, Asheville, North Carolina and lecture at Blue Ridge Community College, Flat Rock, North Carolina 2010 Curator for Threasures, by Aaron Bernard - Hot Iron Studios, Asheville, North Carolina 2010 Curator for Fermata, by Mike Karnowski - Hot Iron Studios, Asheville, North Carolina Gallery and Consulting Affiliations Kai Lin Art, Atlanta, Georgia
Corazon Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico Taupe Gallery, North Wilksboro, North Carolina The Rymer Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee Boston Art Inc., Boston, Massachusetts Collections Creative Arts Guild, Dalton, Georgia
Mohawk Industries, Dalton, Georgia
Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia
Black Bear Consulting, Asheville, North Carolina
Parsec Financial Management, Asheville, North Carolina
Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina Private Collections in:
Los Angeles, California
Washington, DC
Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
Miami, Florida Atlanta, Georgia Dalton, Georgia Savannah, Georgia Duluth, Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota Mendham, New Jersey Princeton, New Jersey New York, New York Asheville, North Carolina Portland, Oregon
Aiken, South Carolina