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Kim Maria Bartz was a self-taught assemblage and collage artist born in Buffalo, NY. Her intimate works are uniquely fashioned from a thoughtful selection of found objects, antique relics, tin-type photographs, plaster, bones, insects and organic materials. Kim intrigues her viewers with figurative works that are like whispers from the past imbued with the delicate decay of time.

Her work often looks like an exhumed relic from an alien planet- strangely familiar yet mysterious and provocative. Drawing upon various influences including classical art, music, films, pop culture, and religion, Kim’s original works are saturated in a veneer of mystical beauty.

Maria exhibited her work in galleries including La Luz de Jesus Gallery, in Los Angeles, G2 Gallery in Arizona, CPOP Galleriy in Detroit, Varnish Fine Art in San Francisco, Limbo Fine Art in San Diego and Anno Domini in San Jose.

Kim's unusual brand of artwork is in the collections of actors Gedde Watanabe and Kirsten Dunst, as well as director Michael Lindsay-Hogg, , music producer Craig Fruin, writer Jerry Stahl and appeared in the 2002 Universal Pictures feature film Big Fat Liar (courtesy Film Art LA).

After a struggle with Multiple Myeloma and Plasma Cell Leukemia Kim died on June 27 th, 2008.

Copyright 1999- 2006 Kim Maria,. All rights reserved. Reproduction is prohibited in any form

without written permission given by the artist.