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Audible Currents of Connectivity

2005
Audible Currents of Connectivity

Art South Africa  Clive Kellner
Kim Lieberman is a painter of seductive surfaces and evocative content. She shows a predilection for rich textures, strong colour or absent colour, and obsessively random, spontaneous marks and patterns – used primarily to convey meaning.
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Every Interaction Interrupts the Future

2003
Every Interaction Interrupts the Future

Art South Africa
 Kathryn Smith
Kim Lieberman's exhibition Every Interaction Interrupts the Future revels in life's patterns - both planned and serendipitous, but which offer the opportunity to change the course of events.
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She's Got Mail

2001
She's Got Mail

Elle Magazine
 Corinne Lamoral
In this age of high-tech communication Kim Lieberman has made an art out of the interconnectedness of messages given and received through the mail, creating a new art medium she calls "post art".
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The Web of Tradition

2001
The Web of Tradition

FNB Vita Catalogue  Clive Kellner
"A boundary is not that at which something stops but, as the Greeks recognized, the boundary is that from which something begins its presencing." - Martin Heidegger
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Combining Sensual with Conceptual

2000
Combining Sensual with Conceptual

SA Jewish Report   Robyn Sassen
Is it always necessary to reveal secrets? This was a question which immediately struck me on confronting the profound aesthetic of Kim Lieberman's recent work. The exhibition opened on November 1 by Rabbi Michael Katz of Chabad, Illovo, in the name of gematria and kabbalah and their role in Lieberman's work.
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The David Exhibition

2005
The David Exhibition

Catalogue
 Curated by Liza Essers
"Much is made of an incident that happened in biblical times - the encounter between David and Goliath. What took only a moment has resonated through time, across cultures and continues to do so. Yet, what of all the numerous incidents that occur throughout time that impact silently?"
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The Threads That Bind Us

2001
The Threads That Bind Us

Embroidery Magazine
 Robyn Sassen
"Only connect", were the immortal words of E. M. Forster. How comfortably and ubiquitously it fits the work of Kim Lieberman, a Johannesburg-based contemporary South African artist.
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Dispatch - Sophisticated fortune cookies

1998
Dispatch - Sophisticated fortune cookies

Epic Culture Magazine  Justine Meagher
Kim Lieberman is in a continual posting frenzy with herself, her past, her psychological state and her travel itinerary.
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Postal Art

2001
Postal Art

Elle Decor  Tanya Kovarsky
Made from silk thread that has been woven and stitched through perforated blank postage stamp paper, Kim Lieberman's "postal art", which was recently exhibited at Camouflage gallery and is to be an exhibition in New York from April, records the situation they were sewn in.
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Kim Lieberman

2006
Kim Lieberman

Art South Africa  Robyn Sassen
Once I saw and heard a man singing liturgical song. He was physically unrefined, yet he did it with such sincerity that the sounds emitting from his mouth seemed to be lines of colour that melded and intertwined, forming beautiful tendrils. For me, this man and his song evoke ‘Influence’, a work central to Kim Lieberman’s ‘Human Matters.’
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