Work samples

  • MGVM: Million Gun Victims March
    My artistic career begun only a few years ago when I started the community art project, Million Gun Victim March. The goal this project is to put faces to the statistics behind gun violence. The first of these goals is to bring the paintings home to the families. In order to do this, we have commissioned a local print lab to scan and print copies of the portraits. The second goal is to have a permanent space for these prints to live in Baltimore and for it to become a memorial for the victims. Baltimore has a memorial to soldiers fallen abroad but not to the people who fell in their own city. The third goal is to connect with and recruit other artists, trained or untrained; to have them join our mission by either helping out with the organization or by collaborating by making portraits.

About Kimberly

Baltimore City
Born in upstate New York in 1960, I moved to Baltimore with my then fiance and lifelong mentor even after death, my husband George in 1984. I finally started teaching myself oil painting in 1990. I have been working on my present project, the Million Gun Victims March since April of 2013.

Too Young to Vote: Teenagers

A lot of the work around this project is to reach out to the younger generation and hopefully give a sense of empathy. Each portrait is a careful study of the victim, their families, and presents them as they might have been today if that final bullet did not pierce through them. What would these young people have been able to acheive if only they had been allowed to live. If only... 
  • Desean Mcelveen 1999-2017
    Desean Mcelveen 1999-2017
  • Andre Galloway 2001-2018
    Andre Galloway 2001-2018
  • Tyrik Adams 1998-2015
    Tyrik Adams 1998-2015
  • Dashanae Woodson 1999-2017
    Dashanae Woodson 1999-2017
  • Malik Fuller 1998-2015
    Malik Fuller 1998-2015
  • Desean Jones 1998-2013
    Desean Jones 1998-2013
  • Najee Thomas 1999-2014
    Najee Thomas 1999-2014
  • Iyanna Watkins 2003-2017
    Iyanna Watkins 2003-2017

Young Fathers

Being a parent is hard. Being a child without a parent is harder still. Oftentimes, being a father is a complex role to fill with many expextations, naunces, and sterotypes to battle. However, the sterotype of the absentee father is not performed by choice by any of these younger victims.  What would they have taught their children they left behind? 
  • Sean Antonio Wood 1990-2017
    Sean Antonio Wood 1990-2017
  • Justin Mensuphu Bey 1992-2015
    Justin Mensuphu Bey 1992-2015
  • Timothy DAWKINS-EL 1988-2013
    Timothy DAWKINS-EL 1988-2013
  • Robert Laney Jr 1979-2012
    Robert Laney Jr 1979-2012
  • Lerrell McBride 1978-2013
    Lerrell McBride 1978-2013
  • Brian Powell 1991-2013
    Brian Powell 1991-2013
  • Aaron Palmese 1995-2018
    Aaron Palmese 1995-2018

Young Mothers

A mother is the one parent we are often told that needs to take care of the children and home. What happens when they are taken away not by choice but by force? Being a young mother is never easy and yet these mothers have paid the ultimate price anyone person could ever pay. Each stroke and each color is performative; like a mother stroking a child's hair. 
  • Tyreka Martin 1992-2013
    Tyreka Martin 1992-2013
  • Victoria Glover 1988-2014
    Victoria Glover 1988-2014
  • Kishawna Pinder 1992-2013
    Kishawna Pinder 1992-2013
  • Charmaine Wilson 1980-2017
    Charmaine Wilson 1980-2017

Most Precious Among Us: Children

Orphan; the loss of ones parents.

Widow; the loss of ones spouse. 

However, there is no word in English that applies to parents who have lost children. Perhaps it is because the very idea of losing ones children is so horrible that we have never wanted to create such a terribly wounded word. 

Children are the hardest for me to paint, to imagine, especially the children whose own parents decided to remove them from this world; their rights to that title, of a parent, seem wrong and distrubing. 
  • Isaiah Deloatch 2011-2016
    Isaiah Deloatch 2011-2016
  • McKenzie Elliot 2011-2014
    McKenzie Elliot 2011-2014
  • Carter Scott 2012-2013
    Carter Scott 2012-2013
  • Taylor Hayes 2011-2018
    Taylor Hayes 2011-2018

Loving Couples

These couples found wonder and beauty within each other. Some people sought to destroy their bonds, either knowingly or unknowingly; a bullet cannot tell the difference. 
  • Shantese Evans 1986-2013 and Maurice Barfield 1979-2013
    Shantese Evans 1986-2013 and Maurice Barfield 1979-2013
  • Makia Dyer 1989-2018 and Sean Dyer 1983-2018
    Makia Dyer 1989-2018 and Sean Dyer 1983-2018
  • Angel Crespo 1990-2017 and Edgardo Estremera 1987-2017
    Angel Crespo 1990-2017 and Edgardo Estremera 1987-2017
  • Rona Bland 1963-2018 and Clyde Burrell 1951-2018
    Rona Bland 1963-2018 and Clyde Burrell 1951-2018

Artists

Many victims turn out to be artists themselves. From muscians, painters, singers, and many others, these artistic sould were taken way before their time. 
  • Reverend James Forrester 1974-2017 with Felix Pappalardi 1939-1983
    Reverend James Forrester 1974-2017 with Felix Pappalardi 1939-1983
  • Aaron Palmese 1995-2018
    Aaron Palmese 1995-2018
  • Douglas "Swipey" Brooks 1997-2016
    Douglas "Swipey" Brooks 1997-2016
  • Marcus Downer 1992-2015
    Marcus Downer 1992-2015
  • Haing S Ngor 1940-1996
    Haing S Ngor 1940-1996
  • Victorious Swift 1998-2017 with Antoine "Twizzle" Johnson 1989-2015
    Victorious Swift 1998-2017 with Antoine "Twizzle" Johnson 1989-2015

Across the Generations

The greatest pain that a community can feel is not only losing perhaps a few of its members but whole families either at the same time or watching them slowly getting picked off. These victims represent the reality of what we are living and the way these outsider weapons kill communities. 
  • Jennifer Jeffry Browne 1984-2015 and Kester Browne 2007-2015
    Jennifer Jeffry Browne 1984-2015 and Kester Browne 2007-2015
  • Travis Hiatt 1966-2015 and granddaughters Jayden Hiatt and Kayden Hiatt June -November 2015
    Travis Hiatt 1966-2015 and granddaughters Jayden Hiatt and Kayden Hiatt June -November 2015
  • Linda Hutton 1962-2016, Emily McDonald 1994-2016, Teagan Hutton October -November 2016
    Linda Hutton 1962-2016, Emily McDonald 1994-2016, Teagan Hutton October -November 2016
  • Chanette Neal 1975-2018, Justice Allen 1997-2018, and son Name Unknown
    Chanette Neal 1975-2018, Justice Allen 1997-2018, and son Name Unknown
  • Rhoden Family
    Rhoden Family
    Hannah Gilley 1996-2016 Christopher Rhoden Jr. 1999-2016 Christopher Rhoden Sr. 1975-2016 Dana Rhoden 1978-2016 Frankie Rhoden 1995-2016 Gary Rhoden 1977-2016 Hannah Rhoden 1997-2016 Kenneth Rhoden 1972-2016
  • Frank Turner 1965-2014 and son Anthony Turner 1992-2014
    Frank Turner 1965-2014 and son Anthony Turner 1992-2014
  • Matthew Woods Jr. 1973-2016 and Kimani Johnson
    Matthew Woods Jr. 1973-2016 and Kimani Johnson

Brothers and Sisters

The thought of losing a child is unimaginable; the thought of losing more is utterly destroying. These victims represent the heartbreaking reality of many families, especially in Baltimore. 
  • Karl Berrain 1983-2013 Kurt Berrain 1988-2013
    Karl Berrain 1983-2013 Kurt Berrain 1988-2013
  • Linton McFadden 1985-2005, Randolph McFadden 1986-200,5 Reginald McFadden 1987-2005
    Linton McFadden 1985-2005, Randolph McFadden 1986-200,5 Reginald McFadden 1987-2005
  •  Julian Rory 2002-2015, Ian Roary 2005-2015
    Julian Rory 2002-2015, Ian Roary 2005-2015
  • Madison Sheats 1998-2016, Taylor Sheats 1994-2016
    Madison Sheats 1998-2016, Taylor Sheats 1994-2016

Wisdom of Ages

One of the great things about growing older is knowing many things about life, living, and hopefully, happiness. This group illustrates the huge loss of wisdom that these victims could have passed on to their communities and their families either verbally or through their actions. Although they had more time on this earth than some of the other victims, they too were taken before they should have gone. 
  • Charles Bowman 1937-2010
    Charles Bowman 1937-2010
  • Brenda Brewington 1953-2012
    Brenda Brewington 1953-2012
  • Silas Bridge Sr. 1927-1981
    Silas Bridge Sr. 1927-1981
  • James Gaylord 1944-2015
    James Gaylord 1944-2015
  • Paramjit Kaur 1971-2012, Prakash Singh 1972-2012, Sita Singh 1970-2012, Ranjit Singh 1961-2012, Satwant Singh Kaleka 1947-2012, Suveg Singh Khattra 1928-2012.jpg
    Paramjit Kaur 1971-2012, Prakash Singh 1972-2012, Sita Singh 1970-2012, Ranjit Singh 1961-2012, Satwant Singh Kaleka 1947-2012, Suveg Singh Khattra 1928-2012.jpg
  • Yogesh Seth 1965-2015
    Yogesh Seth 1965-2015

They Served Their Country and Were Murdered Here

These brave veterans survived the horrors of war only to come home and be shot in their own city. The victims here illustrate that perhaps the streets of Baltimore are more deadly and dangerous than those found abroad. 
  • Lawrence Peterson 1956-2014
    Lawrence Peterson 1956-2014
  • Officer Mark Logsdon 1972-2016 and Officer Patrick Dailey 1963-2016
    Officer Mark Logsdon 1972-2016 and Officer Patrick Dailey 1963-2016
  • Silas Bridge Sr. 1927-1981
    Silas Bridge Sr. 1927-1981
  • Christopher Robinson 1976-2013
    Christopher Robinson 1976-2013
  • Sgt.Tyrone Brown 1977-2010
    Sgt.Tyrone Brown 1977-2010