The Boston Globe
Where Museumgoers Can Break with the Utopian Dream by Murray Whyte
“It’s telling, though, that the biggest footprints in the show belong to Kim Weston, who is part Mohawk, and Weston’s big, bright photo prints are radiant blurs, capturing powwow dancers in motion. They evoke 19th-century “spirit photography,” when light bleeds in negative processing lent a ghostly presence. Nearby, a mound of tiny red pouches stuffed with tobacco is on display, their sweet, acrid scent heavy in the air, making up “15,000 Missing Flowers, 15,000 Prayers,” a tribute to the missing and murdered Indigenous women whose numbers grow day
by day.”
The Arts Paper
Kim Weston Dances Into 2020 by Lucy Gellman
”Stand at the threshold of Kim Weston’s studio, and you'll notice that every square inch of space is occupied. On a large table, squat jars of paint are arranged neatly, a rainbow of color waiting to be unleashed. Printouts and photos surround her desk, a workspace by the window. Large photographs beckon from all walls: long exposures that look as if they are giving off sparks and rolling out bolts of dark satin. Only when one steps closer does that blue come across as the New England sky.
New York Times
What the Camera Sees, and Doesn’t See by Maurice Berger
“At first glance, Ms. Weston’s images appear candid, like mundane family snapshots. A closer look reveals their complexity. The power of “Seen, Unseen,” as its title suggests, resides in its ability to make visible not just what the camera sees but also the intangible things it usually cannot see, or the things society doesn’t want it to see.”
New Haven Independent
State Honors 2 New Haven Arts Heroes by Staff
Two New Haven “arts heroes” got their due Wednesday night — in the form of statewide recognition of their contributions to Connecticut culture. Lucy Gellman and Kim Weston received those honors during the latest annual Connecticut Arts Hero Awards, held in downtown Hartford at the Infinity Music Hall & Bistro on Front Street.
Gellman, who is the editor of the New Haven Arts Paper and the co-founder of the Youth Arts Journalism Initiative, was one of nine Connecticut residents to receive the 2020 Arts Hero award from the state Office of the Arts.
Weston, a photographer and teacher with a studio in Erector Square,
was one of eight to receive the 2021 award.
Daily Nutmeg
Set In Motion by Kathy Leonard Czepie
"At first, Weston says, she was taking National Geographic-style documentary photos of the powwows. Then her graduate school classmates challenged her to do something more, so she started experimenting with the shutter speed and aperture. “This motion really started to feel like a painting, and the blur was really exciting, and I got this groove with it and started seeing energies in it and seeing other beings in the work,” Weston says, adding that whatever she had tapped into scared her at first. “I knew I was onto something that had power to it and that expressed what many dancers feel in the circle, but I’ve caught it visually.”
New Haven Independent
Kehler Liddell Takes A Trip By Brian Slattery
“Kim Weston‘s photographs, meanwhile, take us on a journey of a different kind. In an artistic statement, she describes herself as “a fine art photographer whose diverse background has influenced her definition of art and its connectedness between people, objects, and ceremony. She questions how we perceive the world when illusions surround us. Art promotes presence and an opportunity to observe what’s true in our lives and the discrepancy in our everyday. These layered photographic ideas are not always clear or grounded in reality. But some images leave traces and are seen as abstractions of time and space.”