Reviews:

...With four pieces in the show, A. Kimberlin Blackburn clearly caught the juror's eye, and for good reason. Blackburn's densely beaded, witty 3-D constructions depict women and men, often lovers, in tropical settings. The beadwork creates glittering, wavy patterns, as in "Mother and Child," in which a resplendent woman holding an infant stands before a stream of sparkling blue beads. The figures in these pieces unite with their natural settings to speak of fertility and joy. Virginia Wageman, Honolulu Advertiser Art Critic , 8/27/00, Art Kauai Juried Exhibition

...The boldness of her 3-dimensional work imbues her paintings with a solids uncommon in such highly patterned, symbolic imagery. The female triangle, the male pyramid, the heart of emotion, the serpents of eternity - these images have been freighted with meaning throughout human history. In pattern and design they have spoken for eons. We can only hope that A.Kimberlin's vision holds within it the substance of prophecy.Evelyn de Buhr, Kauai Magazine ,'91

A.Kimberlin Blackburn makes wonderful constructions of wood covered with exuberant beadwork.Virginia Wageman, Honolulu Advertiser Art Critic, 4/11/99

Blackburn takes her distinctive iconography of wildly waving palm trees and winged triangle faces into the third dimension with a shrine thickly coated with colorful acrylic paint and encrusted with sparkling beads.
Deb Aoki, Honolulu Advertiser Art Critic, 9/21/97

Brilliantly colored... Blackburn's tropical landscapes are transformed into a dreamlike fantasy worlds. ...(her) vivid and bold images, with their delicately detailed and jewel-like surfaces invite the viewer into a world in which all is beauty and harmony. Jay Jensen, The Contemporary Museum Curator, for The Garden Island Newspaper , 3/26/93

Contemporary primitive work...Well disciplined funkiness...Touch on another dimension,... balances fantasy and charm with a darker message.
Joan Rose, Honolulu Advertiser Art Critic, 12/10/95, 8/2/92, 3/21/93.

Blackburn's beings are rich in color and message.
Kenne Brittain, for The Garden Island Newspaper , GI 6/20/90

Images with a mystic edge...Strong visual fantasy, generating a repertoire or personal language of symbol-shapes...Blackburn's vision is so personal and her sense of detail so lovingly sensitive.
Marcia Morse, Honolulu Advertiser Art Critic, 5/21/89, 6/29/86

The triangle she uses for women's faces refers to the trinity in goddess worship being the Virgin, the Mother, the Crone... surfing helps her to understand the nature of ebb and flow and surviving the ups and downs, all of which are translated into her art.Kauai Beach Press, 10/11/88

Blackburn's fascinating cross-cultural blend of symbols and images express both the inner journey and the outer world...
Suzie Collins, for The Garden Island Newspaper, HI, 9/11/88

These brightly colored, mythical fantasy works have a refreshing tribal quality not normally found in our crowded industrialized urban zone.
Emanuel Haller, Courier News, Art Critic, NJ, 1987

Brilliantly colored, highly detailed, her paintings show gods and goddesses, spirits of mountain, sea, and sky. Her sculptures attract light and give it back.
Bernice Paglia, Plainfield Today, Art Critic, NJ, 12/25/86

"In the Pink"... Curator, A.Kimberlin Blackburn has gathered a wonderfully eclectic selection whose theme is the color pink or the state of mind being "In the Pink". What's important here is respect for the artist's vision.
Bernice Paglia, Plainfield Today, Art Critic, NJ, 8/23/84

Still, two of the most interesting sculptures are by A. Kimberlin Blackburn. The larger, called ''When a Woman Enters a Man's Heart,'' has both tribal and Pop overtones. It consists of a triangular ''head'' in Styrofoam that has been painted black, ornamented with plastic beads and a stream of colored ribbons and then suspended between arching shapes made of wicker-like material painted black. The other sculpture is an odd little tropical landscape carved from green Styrofoam in which a black and yellow shape that presumably symbolizes a woman stands among palm trees.

Blackburn's humor suffuses all of her works.
Deborah Cannonie, Quo Vadis, NJ, 3/30/83