About the Artist

My work explores not only the beauty of nature but of people who appear to be looking right through you. The images of nature are lonely and still and those images of people tend to show emotion with a direct view into their life at that moment in their eyes. Heavily inspired by photographer Nan Goldin, my favorite images to produce are of what is and who is around me living real life, which sometimes mirrors the sadness that engulfs many of us. I’m fascinated by the polarity of nature images to the portrait images and this can be seen in my newly published book titled, Abstracted Distractions: teetering between here and gone which showcases images from the past twenty years. (Due out this year!) Kimberly will be starting her new photography project entitled Hints of Happiness which will explore mental health through portraiture. This project will take her to 5 different national and international artist residencies in 2023 with the expectation to exhibit this body of work in the future.

Artist Biography

Kimberly Flynn (born in Cambridge, MA, 1985) began photographing at the age of sixteen when she used her first paycheck from the local movie theater to purchase a 35 mm film camera, a Canon EOS Rebel G. A camera that never left her side the rest of high school to which she was compelled to document everything from nature to the people in her life at the time. As life progressed so did the need to provide a living and take care of others and while photography may have taken a backseat she always found her way back to it. Kimberly has produced a book titled, Abstracted Distractions: teetering between here and gone which showcases images from the past twenty years. (Due out this year!)

Kimberly is the founder of Starlight Art Consultancy where she is a leader whose goal is to inspire artists to see their full potential and put it to use. She wants every creator to realize that they already have everything they need inside of them to thrive as an artist. 

Originally from the New England area, Kimberly relocated to mossy Savannah, Georgia five years ago and couldn't have asked for a more welcoming place to call home. As someone with over 15 years of art and business experience, she offers artists helpful tools that give their art business both heart and structure and is also the author of Businify Your Art Life. Kimberly serves as board treasurer for local art non-profit ARTS Southeast whose mission is to make Savannah a destination for art and culture in the Southeast by supporting established and emerging artists and engaging a diverse community with creative programming by developing awareness and appreciation of the arts.

Kimberly will be starting her new photography project entitled Hints of Happiness which will explore mental health through portraiture. This project will take her to 5 different national and international artist residencies in 2023 with the expectation to exhibit this body of work in the future.

Artist Residency

2023 Watershed Studio Art Residency, Galway, Ireland

2023 La Macina di San Cresci, Chianti (FI), Italy

2023 South Porch Artists Residency, Summerville, South Carolina, USA

2023 Arte Studio Ginestrelle & Writing Residency, Assisi, Italy

2023 Satori, Prince Edward Island, Canada

Group Shows

2023 Spring, The Chateau Gallery, Louisville, KY

2022 WOMEN IN ART, Las Laguna Art Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA

2022 TENSION, THIRST art, Savannah, GA

2022 The Captured Image, The Chateau Gallery, Louisville, KY

2022 Portrait Exhibition, Art Show International Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2017 Small Works Exhibition, Gutstein Gallery, Savannah, GA 

2014 Festival Fete’s 1st Annual Newport Art Festival, Bowen’s Wharf, Newport, RI 

2013-2014 Silver Tides, Wakefield, RI

2013 Festival Fete’s Holiday Market, Rhodes On The Pawtuxet, Warwick, RI

2013 Providence Flea Holiday Market, Providence, RI 

2013 Craftopia, Hope Artist Village, Pawtucket, RI

Featured Artist & Author

2023 Beyond Queer Words - A Collection of Poems

2023 Peatsmoke Journal Spring 2023

2022 Streetlight Magazine

2021 Nonfiction Authors Association

2021 Billion Success

2013 Providence Flea Featured Artist

Selected Juror, Curator, and Manager

2021-2022 Museum Operations Coordinator, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA

2020 con-duit, Curator, Starlight Art Consultancy, Savannah, GA

2020 Divine Feminine, Curator, Starlight Art Consultancy, Savannah, GA

2020 ::through clarity::, Curator, Starlight Art Consultancy, Savannah, GA

2020 OPULENCE, Curator, Starlight Art Consultancy, Savannah, GA

2020 Confront comfort., Curator, Starlight Art Consultancy, Savannah, GA

2020 #InSeason, Curator, Starlight Art Consultancy, Savannah, GA

2019 RE::CLAIMED, Juror, Sulfur Studios, Savannah, GA

2019 Small Works: The Art of Gifting, Juror and SCAD Art Sales Gallery Manager, Alexander Hall, Savannah, GA

2019 Small Works: The Art of Gifting, Juror and SCAD Art Sales Gallery Manager, SCAD Atlanta, Atlanta, GA

2019 Open Studio Night, SCAD Art Sales Gallery Manager, Alexander Hall, Savannah, GA

2019 Open Studio Night, SCAD Art Sales Gallery Manager, SCAD Atlanta, Atlanta, GA

2019 Animal Farm, Juror and SCAD Art Sales Gallery Manager, Gutstein Gallery, Savannah, GA

2018 Small Works, Juror and SCAD Art Sales Gallery Manager, Gutstein Gallery, Savannah, GA

2018 FIGURE/GROUND, Juror and SCAD Art Sales Gallery Manager, Gutstein Gallery, Savannah, GA

2018 Open Studio Night, SCAD Art Sales Gallery Manager, Alexander Hall, Savannah, GA

2018 Open Studio Night, SCAD Art Sales Gallery Manager, SCAD Atlanta, Atlanta, GA

2017 Guo Pei: Couture Beyond, Gallery Manager, Pei Ling Chan Gallery, Savannah, GA

Board Treasurer

ARTS Southeast

Published Works, Workshops, and Professional Photography

Businify Your Art Life 

Abstracted Distractions: teetering between here and gone

Series of Five Art Journals

Social Media Workshop at Savannah Cultural Arts Center

2006-2011 Wedding & Event Photography

Education

B.A. New England College of Business, Boston, MA Graduated 2018

Savannah College of Art & Design, Savannah, GA 2016-2017

New England School of Photography, Boston, MA 2005-2006

Art Educator Savannah-Chatham County Public School System Credential ID Georgia Cert. ID: 1795326

New Project! Hints of Happiness

As someone who is an avid lucid dreamer, I had a dream and when I became lucid I was thinking about how I needed to write a memoir called, Hints of Happiness. I kept repeating it over and over so I wouldn't forget it when I woke up. I feel that this title came to me because as much disappointment and heartache that happens in our lives, it’s important to find the little things that bring us joy in order to keep going. This has morphed from a memoir to a fiction story that will be due out within the next year, but I see an important companion to this and it would be a series of photographs of people. I want to do portraiture of people within the community outdoors with nature and architecture as their backdrop. During this time with them I am curious about their life experiences with mental illness, taking care of others with mental illness, or relationships they no longer have because of a mental illness that they suffer from or that their family/friend suffers from. For the polarity of this heavy topic, I want to also interview them about what they are most excited about for their future. I feel that those two emotions are allowed to cohabitate and it’s important for us all to see the hints of happiness throughout. Each participant can choose to be anonymous and the portrait can be of their side or backside profile. Once the Hints of Happiness project is completed I intend to submit this for exhibition proposals nationally and internationally.

Currently seeking Artist in Residence opportunities to create the Hints of Happiness project. If you know of any that I should check out, let me know! Email me at Hello@StarlightArtConsultancy.com