Kimia Ferdowsi Kline is a painter and sculptor who splits her time between Nashville and New York. She also curates the private collection at Wythe Hotel in Brooklyn. We talk about the challenge of not trying too hard, how pregnancy and motherhood has changed the work, the genius of Ali Wong, the metaphoric potential of her new materials, resisting the pressure to make work solely about identity politics, the difficulties of working during the pandemic, the practice of play in using salvaged wood, meditation as a creative tool, and art as a spiritual practice and way of healing.

https://www.kimiakline.com/

https://www.turngallerynyc.com/artists/kimia-ferdowsi-kline

https://www.instagram.com/alkeemi/

https://www.departures.com/lifestyle/art-culture/kimia-ferdowsi-kline-paintings

Ali Wong: Baby Cobra
https://www.netflix.com/title/80101493

Ali Wong: Hard Knock Wife
https://www.netflix.com/title/80186940

The Artist’s Way
https://juliacameronlive.com/books-by-julia/the-artists-way-a-spiritual-path-to-higher-creativity/

The 4Fs: A Trauma Typology
http://pete-walker.com/fourFs_TraumaTypologyComplexPTSD.htm

Louise Bourgeois: An Unfolding Portrait
https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/3661

Always on Sunday (Louise Bourgeois’ salon)
https://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/18/magazine/always-on-sunday.html

Tau Lewis
http://www.taulewis.com/

Simone Leigh
https://www.hauserwirth.com/artists/28363-simone-leigh

Alma Allen
https://www.blumandpoe.com/artists/alma_allen

Chris Ofili
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/chris-ofili-2543

SENSATION: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection, Brooklyn Museum
https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/exhibitions/683

Agnes Martin: Her Life and Art
https://www.amazon.com/Agnes-Martin-Her-Life-Art/dp/0500093903

https://www.bahai.org/

Art as Therapy by Alain de Botton
https://www.alaindebotton.com/art/