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Laredo Morning Times - July 12, 2008

Artist Finds Heat in Laredo

by Christina Rosales

"Jimmy Kuehnle strides the streets of downtown Laredo.
He's been working for less than half an hour, but sweat drenches his T-shirt and his forehead is 25 minutes past glistening.
It's dripping." ...

Article about Jimmy Kuehnle in the Laredo Morning Times by Christina Rosales.

LMT ¿Que Pasa? - July 11, 2008

'Big Red' to wreak havoc on perceptions

Special to the Times

"Performance artist Jimmy Kuehnle will crash back into the Texas art world in a big puff of cold air today at the Laredo Center for the Arts, when an opening reception for his art exhibition will be held from 6 to 8 p.m." ...

Preview teaser article about an inflatable suit performance in the Laredo Morning TImes Que Pasa.

Chunichi Shinbun - June 14, 2008

Friendships Through Art

by Chiaki Ashihara

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Article in the Chunichi Shinbun in Kyoto, Japan by Chiaki Ashihara.

Houston Press - February 22, 2007

Good Budd

by Keith Plocek

"Paired with Budd in the main gallery space is fellow San Antonian Jimmy Kuehnle. Their works have been clumped together under the title, 'Waiting to Explode', and although that phrase aptly describes both their projects, the artists seem bound together more by friendship than shared artistic practices." ...

Article about Richie Budd and Jimmy Kuehnle in the Houston Press by Kieth Plocek.

Houston Press - January 25, 2007

Anything but Pedestrian

by Lisa Ray

"Heads up, museum district residents. This afternoon, a man in a huge, green, inflatable suit will be running frantically through your neighborhood." ...

Lisa Ray writes a blurb about Jimmy Kuehnle's Kiss the Sky performance in Houston.

San Antonio Current - July 15, 2006

The fabulous Ks

by Catherine Walworth

"It's hard to miss them, the new power couple on the art scene these days. He's loud, tall, and over-the-top. She's cool, uiet, and sharp as a tack." ...

Interview of Jimmy Kuehnl and Mimi Kato by Catherine Walworth.

San Antonio Express News - July 06, 2006

Art off the beaten path has interesting offerings

by Dan Goddard

"UTSA graduate Jimmy Kuehnle, who rode to fame on his First Friday art bike tours, has de-constructed corporate logos, reducing them to the binary codes required for them to appear on computer screens." ...

Review by Dad Goddard of Jimmy Kuehnle's show at C-Art Sudio.

San Antonio Current - April 19, 2006

Smokin' Hot Culture

by Elaine Wolff

"In the end, though, it's the images that stay with me and make my heart beat faster as I think about the future of art in San Antonio: Ken Little smiling as he rode Jimmy Kuehnle's art-making bike at the UTSA Satellite Space,..."

Article about art in San Antonio by Elaine Wolff.

San Antonio Current - April 19, 2006

Best Public Objects Rising to the Level of Art

by Catherine Walworth

"First, Jimmy Kuehnle is nothing if not all the way out there for us. He arrived in town ready to produce art bikes and matching suits - a medium he had been experimenting with in Japan." ...

List of public artworks in San Antonio by Catherin Walworth.

Wenatchee World: go! magazine - March 30, 2006

Jimmy Kuehnle: Art to move you

by Jefferson Robbins

"Jimmy Kuehnle makes art you can use to ride to work, dip your chips or observe your progress through life." ...

Review of Jimmy Kuehnle in Gallery 76 by Jefferson Robbins.

ARTL!ES - Winter 2006

Round 23: Project Row Houses

by Jeff M. Ward

"The multiple television sets in Jimmy Kuehnle's installation, though quantitatively less than Golden's keys, seem mor varied. Here, the difference between a wood-paneled box and a contemporary white, plastic thirteen-inch model adds a textured postapocalyptic junkyard feel to Kuehnle's unfolding narrative." ...

Review in Artlies by Jeff M. Ward about Round 23 at the Project Row Houses in Houston, Texas.

the egalitarian - February 8, 2006

Mesmerized by art

"The multiple television sets in Jimmy Kuehnle's installation, though quantitatively less than Golden's keys, seem mor varied. Here, the difference between a wood-paneled box and a contemporary white, plastic thirteen-inch model adds a textured postapocalyptic junkyard feel to Kuehnle's unfolding narrative." ...

Review of Jimmy Kuehnle's solo Show at the Houston Community College.

San Antonio Express News - January 22, 2006

Gallery Stroll

by Dan Goddard

"By comparison, Kuehnle's video works from a recent show at Project Row Houses in Houston seem almost tame. Although you don't really want to look into the lap of the 'Naked Man Chair,' a chair you can sit in made with a pair of video screens forming the seat and back" ...

Review of Nacho Volcano by Dan Goddard.

Houston Press - November 17, 2005

"Round" Here

by Keith Plocek

"Jimmy Kuehnle has been getting a lot of buzz lately with his art bikes, crazy, rolling contraptions that either paint or film while he pedals, but his installation at PRH is a little more subdued." ...

Review of Nacho Volcano by Dan Goddard.

San Antonio Express News - July 11, 2005

Strange plastics unifying element for trio

by Dan Goddard

"Kuehnle's bikes aren't quite the same without the presence of the tall, lanky artist, who doesn't shy from media attention." ...

Review of Siamese Triplets by Dan Goddard.

San Antonio Current - July 18, 2005

if you can't beat the young (p.s. you can't), join them

by Catherine Walworth

"Kuehnle exhibits bicycles he creates and rides for performances -'Fuck Bike' and 'The Bike that Draws' - as well as spacey costumes. Whatever you think of his performances, you have to respect his arty verve."

Review of Siamese Triplets by Dan Goddard.

San Antonio Express News - July 2, 2005

An artist's vision

by Kin Man Hui

"Artist jimmy Kuehnle and his brother-in-law Josh Thomas haul Kuehnle's art piece, what he calls a commentary on surveillance in society." ...

Photo by Kin Man Hui of Jimmy Kuehnle performing Big Jimmy is Watching.

San Antonio Express News - June 26, 2005

Top Tickets

by Dan Goddard

"Certainly one of the most unusual spectacles of the past year has been bike-riding performance aritist Jimmy Kuehnle's expeditions from UTSA to the Blue Star Arts Complex for First Friday in Southtown." ...

Event blurb in the San Antonio Express News about performance art by Dan Goddard.

ARTL!ES - Spring 2005

The Texas Biennial 2005

by Rebecca S. Cohen

"...and the very weird Fuck Bike (2004) by Jimmy Kuehnle.."

Review of the Texas Biennial ARTL!ES.

Glasstire - Spring 2005

The Texas Biennial

by JR Compton

"Lombardi was where a guy who"d been riding around on his bike all day in the guise of The Invisible Bicycle - clear plastic shirt and pants over white underwear briefs - fit right in with Mari Omon's haunting tea-bag cloud, though the installation overall was terribly cluttered; Rosalyn Bodycomb's somber grayscale paintings; Jimmy Kuehnle's Invisible Bike, which he rides every First Friday in San Antonio"...

Review of the Texas Biennial on Glasstire.com.

San Antonio Current - March 3, 2005

Bike Me!

by Elaine Wolff

"UTSA graduate art student Jimmy Kuehnle - who is becoming know around town as the 'art bike guy' for his mobile, wheeled sculptures that he rides to the city's cultural institutions of First Fridays - was recently warned by a faculty member that he should ease up on his PR or he might become a pest." ...

Article with photo by Elaine Wolff in the San Antonio Current.

San Antonio Express News Weekender - February 4, 2005

Pedal and paint on way to First Friday

by Dan Goddard

"First Friday in Southtown gets and early start as artist Jimmy Kuehnle plans to begin his cross-city 'Bicycle That Draws' tour at 10 a.m. at UTSA with stops at the museums and other art institutions during the day." ...

Intro by Dan Goddard about performance art in San Antonio.

San Antonio Current - February 3, 2005

Easy Rider

by Aaron Block and Elaine Wolff

"For San Antonio's Phileas Fogg participation is the name of the game." ...

Event summary by Aaron Block and Elaine Wolff about a performance art piece.

Kobe Newspaper - September 2003

Article about Jimmy Kuehnle's 'Japan Bike' in the Kobe Newspaper.

The Commercial Appeal - May 13, 2002

Free-wheeler

by Jim Weber

"Self-proclaimed bike artist Jimmy Kuehnle cruises North Parkway Sunday on a 7-foot cycyle he calls High Feaver." ...

Photo in the Memphis Commercial Appeal about a tall bike.