kim gordon

los angeles
art
kim gordon

interview by OLIVIER ZAHM
portrait by JASPER BRIGGS

All artworks copyright Kim Gordon and courtesy of Reena Spaulings Fine Art, NY/LA

After the end of Sonic Youth, Kim Gordon left the East Coast and returned to her native Los Angeles. She created a new life for herself sequestered in the beautiful hills of Los Feliz, which turned out to be the ideal place for her unique way of blending writing, music, and art.

OLIVIER ZAHM — When did you move back to Los Angeles from New York? Has it been a while?
KIM GORDON — I moved two-and-a-half years ago. Well, I was living in Northampton [Massachusetts]. I actually moved out of New York over 20 years ago.

OLIVIER ZAHM — Still, it was the East Coast.
KIM GORDON — Yeah. We had a place in New York, and we’d go back and forth.

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