“Transient Structures” runs through July 21, 2007 and features three-dimensional works by Lynn Bennett-Carpenter and Mary Kim.

Lynn Bennett-Carpenter holds a BA degree in Philosophy from Wheaton College, Illinois. She received her BFA in Drawing and Painting from University of Colorado, Denver and her MFA in Fiber from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Bennett-Carpenter has participated in local and national exhibitions and her work has been highlighted in multiple news articles. She is a recipient of numerous awards including the Hagenlocker Faculty Award and a Bramson Grant. Lynn Bennett-Carpenter is an artist-in-residence at Kingswood Weaving and Fiber Arts Studio at Cranbrook.

Lynn thinks of her work as drawings. She starts with a flat piece of paper and creates three-dimensional form by adding space through cutting, lifting, twisting and turning layers. Her works are not permanently fixed and this transient state allows for the evolution of an idea. 

Born in New York City, but having grown up in Seoul, Korea, Mary Kim received her BFA from the Seoul National University in Korea, her MFA at City College of the University of New York, and her Master of Architecture degree at Cranbrook Academy of Art. After completing her thesis, she was awarded a Post Graduate Residency at Cranbrook Academy, an “Art on the Move” public art grant, a Detroit YMCA public art grant, and an artist-in-residence at the McColl Center for Visual Art. She has been teaching at College for Creative Studies, Lawrence Technological University and Washtenaw Community College.

Mary is working on the issues of enigmatic space organization through painting and architecture. She creates a series of tectonic structures with obliquely modified units as a new architectural language that generates a metaphorical form of growth. Kim is interested in creating structures "as events that are constantly being reinterpreted and remade rather than as objects completed with permanence and stability." - Gianni Vattimo.

Mary Kim is represented by David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI. Her new work will be included in "Fresh", opening at David Klein Gallery June 22nd and continuing through August 4th.