Kim Carlino is an artist and independent curator living and working in Easthampton, Massachusetts. Carlino is interested in the contrasts of opposing forces in her work: rigidity and fluidity, structure and chaos, static and activated. Carlino received her BFA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She also studied at the New School and Drawing Room in NYC. Carlino was a member on the team of artists that installed the 25 year Drawing Retrospective of Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawings. She is a recipient of the Gordon Scholarship for Fine Art, Vice Chancellor’s Purchase Award and a 2011 Art Grant from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Carlino recently won a solo competition at the Bromfield Gallery in Boston juried by Al Miner, curator of Contemporary Art at the MFA Boston. Carlino has work currently on view at the University Museum of Contemporary Art @ Umass Amherst till March 9th as part of the Dialogue with a Collection Series.