Join us on Thursday, November 7th, 2024 from 6pm - 8pm for our opening reception Manuel Knapp | New Sculpture.
Join us on November 14th, 2024 from 6PM - 8PM for the opening of Charlie Hewitt’s solo exhibition, “New Paintings.”
We hope to see you there!
Join us and artist Dave Lefner for a demonstration of his reduction linocuts. Dave will share his process and explain the linoleum reduction technique, which was pioneered by Pablo Picasso. A multi-colored image is printed using only one linoleum block, this process is rarely employed by artists working today because of its difficulty and precision. This is a great opportunity to learn more about this fascinating printing process. We hope to see you there.
Jim Watt | Recent Paintings now up until October 20th in conjunction with the launch of his new book, “Paintings | 2021-2023.”
The book highlights all of his paintings from the Liminal, Modal, and Rome Series. In addition, it includes an interview of Jim Kempner & Jim Watt, as well as writings from several influential people to Jim Watt.
Stop by and check out our current exhibition of our fall selections!
Open Tuesday - Saturday from 10am - 6pm and Sunday 12pm - 5pm.
Join AHA Underground @ Jim Kempner Fine Art, May 16th, 2024 from 6PM - 8PM for the latest exhibition, KNOCKOUT. Featuring artists, Nancy Bruno, Vincent Dion, Rosanne Ebner, Akwasi Gyambibi, Denae Howard, Mary Tooley Parker, Susu Pianchupattana, Jeffrey Allen Price, Margaret Roleke, Nola Romano, Jesse Scaturro, & Floyd Strickland.
Jim Kempner Fine Art is pleased to announce an exhibition of new paintings by artist, Jessica Helfand.
The paintings imagine a diasporic community of Irish women; housekeepers and cooks, chambermaids and scullery maids, and laundresses who were employed, more than a century ago by a number of wealthy American families.
Combining research, photography, and speculative operations of artificial intelligence, their portraits reclaim -and reframe- a long-overlooked story of independence, perseverance, and selfhood.
AHA Underground is pleased to present Off the Grid: an exhibition featuring new and recent paintings, painting collages, sculptures, and mixed media works by Christopher Beane, Vincent Dion, Jay Kelly, Juan Miguel Palacios, Evan Venegas, Sandra Vucicevic and Jim Watt. The exhibition will be on view from April 11th through May 11th, with an opening reception on Thursday, April 11 from 6-8pm at AHA
Underground (lower level at Jim Kempner Fine Art), 501 West 23rd Street in Manhattan, New York City.
Featuring Helen Frankenthaler, Charlie Hewitt, Rashid Johnson, Jay Kelly, Christian Marclay, Pablo Picasso, James Siena, Kiki Smith, Jim Watt, and more!
Come join us for the IFPDA Print Fair at Park Ave Armory
February 15th - February 18th
Faces & Figures
Thursday, February 8th - Sunday, March 10th
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THE MADNESS OF ART AND JEWELRY
OPENING RECEPTION
November 14, 6pm-8pm
BREAKFAST WITH THE ARTISTS
November 17, 10-12pm
From November 14 - 19, we will collaborate with NYC Jewelry Week - https://nycjewelryweek.com/ - to celebrate the long, rich history of artists working across mediums and disciplines. We will put jewelry in dialogue with paintings, sculptures and works on paper made by renown modern and contemporary artists.
Like oil, graphite or marble, renown artists have often gravitated to jewelry as another medium to fully realize their creative expression. They showed as much vigor and experimentation in their jewelry design as they did in their monumental works.
Our installation will include the jewelry of artists Stephanie Dubsky, Heidi Abrahamson, Rocio Ines Marsyas, Jay Kelly and Boaz Vaadia in dialogue with art work from celebrated modern and contemporary artists such as Ed Ruscha, Wayne Thiebaud, Louise Nevelson, Boaz Vaadia, Louise Bourgeois and Robert Rauschenberg, Chris Beane, David Mitchell and Terry Winters.
November 14 - 19, T-Sat 10-6pm, Sun 12-5pm
Join us for our opening reception 6PM - 8PM, Thursday, November 2nd
With a musical performance from Johnny Nameless!
The show will be up until January 3rd.
Featuring photographs of:
Bob Dylan, Fugees, Dave Grohl, Cypress Hill, Big L, Fleetwood Mac, Metallica, Nas, Naughty By Nature, Ol' Dirty Bastard, Tom Petty, Radiohead, Patti Smith, Bruce Springsteen, Michael Stipe, Tupac, Eddie Vedder, Tom Waits, Neil Young, & More!
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Christopher Beane, Louise Bourgeois, Charlie Hewitt, Jay Kelly, Don Kimes, Sol Lewitt, Rafa Macaron, Catherine Shuman Miller, Jerry Mischak, David Mitchell, Susan Oehme, Jacob Ouillette, Jenna Pirello, Fred Sandback, Chris Santa Maria, Frank Stella, Cy Twombly, Jim Watt, Stanley Whitney
KRAZY KEMPNER'S SUMMER SPECIALS
On View:
Tuesday, May 30th - Saturday, July 16th
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After 3 decades in a private collection we are please to present 9 of Jay Kelly’s photo-realist paintings from the 1980s.
Voices can be hushed, stifled, extinguished, ignored, persecuted, condemned, or falsified. Voices can also be liberating, therapeutic, powerful, paradigm shifting, life-saving, quieting.
This show is about the artistic voice, having a voice, finding a voice, specifically the voice of a group of female / femme artists the gallery has worked with or has been deeply affected by over the past 35 years.
May this show be a tiny addition to the great push forward to a more equal representation of artistic voices, in this gallery, and worldwide.*
*According to a recent Art Market report, women artists sell for less than men in every continent on earth but none worse than in North America where on average men sell their art for almost 50% more than women.
Featured Artists: Jennifer Bartlett, Louise Bourgeois, Cecily Brown, Lin Emery, Judy Chicago, Petah Coyne, Lesley Dill, Helen Frankenthaler, Carole Freeman, Ellen Gallagher, Marianne Garnier, Francoise Gilot, Deborah Kass, Suzanne Levesque, Barbara Kruger, Elizabeth Murray, Louise Nevelson, Alice Neel, Susan Oehme, Yoko Ono, Eva Petric, Howardena Pindell, Liliana Porter, Jenna Pirello, Christie Ann Reynolds, Alison Saar, Betye Saar, Paula Scher, Susan Schwalb, Kiki Smith, Betty Woodman, Shanlin Ye, Lisa Yuskavage
25 YEARS / 35 YEARS
This year, we celebrate 35 years in business and 25 years in Chelsea on the corner of 23rd and 10th. As I think back, I remember all the wonderful accidents that led us here, the paths chanced upon, the magical discoveries, the beautiful friendships, the art and artists, and the fascinating lives encountered, sometimes just for a fleeting moment. All of this has helped make JKFA the place it is today. It has been a lucky, exciting, endless thrill ride, and I want to thank everyone who has made this adventure possible.
We get one chance at life, which makes the twists and turns and unexpected connections so important. As Henry James put it in “The Middle Years”:
“We live in the dark. We do what we can.
We give what we have. Our doubt is our
passion, and our passion is our task.
The rest is the madness of art.”
Our little corner of the world continues to house “The Madness of Art” in all its many incarnation
For Charlie Hewitt's 13th solo exhibition with Jim Kempner Fine Art, we present a new body of work that includes large canvases, prints, light sculptures and drawings, all inspired by doodles Hewitt has unconsciously drawn on his daily calendar pages for years and years while conducting his daily business affairs. These pieces feel almost spring loaded, as pipes twist and time bombs threaten detonation, their elements about to burst from the walls.
What I like best about them is that they are funny. I think there is an element of humor that comes from my doodles. It is hard to find that in art, and it is a big part of what art is about, for me.
-Charlie Hewitt
This exhibition will also include Hewitt's Hopeful light sculpture and the works of art created around this piece - all the seeds for his inspiring Hopeful Project that is now expanding rapidly throughout the country.
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Including artists, Christiane Baumgartner, Christopher Beane, Mel Bochner, Long-Bin Chen, Jeff Chyatte, Lin Emery, Rinaldo Frattolillo, Charlie Hewitt, Jasper Johns, Jay Kelly, Manuel Knapp, Suzanne Levesque, Jerry Mischak, David Mitchell, Jacob Ouillette, Robert Petersen, Jenna Pirello, Robert Rauschenberg, Kevin Scott, Boaz Vaadia, Jim Watt, Stanley Whitney and more!
Jenna Pirello received her MFA in Painting from Yale University in 2014 and her BFA from Boston University in 2011. For her newest body of work, “Inside Out” and “Operator”, Pirello transitions between acrylic paint, gouache and silkscreen to meditate on the concept of “home” and on what it is to be grounded in a foundation. The intimate practice of making and viewing - this includes the importance of the lyrics, the rhythms, the sounds she listens to while creating - continue to play a big role in Pirello’s creative process. In this new work, all created during this past year, she grounded her practice in repeated compositions, focusing on color relationships and tonal shifts. This was a deep dive into the process of image making. Also new to this body of work is Pirello’s self-made frames. These frames expand the surface on which she can play with material, color and mood. This carefully crafted element can also be said to contain the work, as barriers - whether a tarp or sheetrock - might create the walls that make up a home or a grouping of rocks might make up a foundation. Each piece in the exhibit dates from this past chaotic year.
7 DECADES | 42 ARTISTS IS A SORT OF HOMAGE TO THE RICH, REWARDING WORLD OF PRINTMAKING
Jim Kempner Fine Art is pleased to announce an exhibition of recent drawings and paintings by gallery artist Jay Kelly. Jay Kelly celebrates clean and fundamentally abstract forms, with a minimalist sensibility. This will be Kelly’s first show of abstract paintings, having worked in small scale sculpture and drawing for many years. Applying oil on linen stretched over 8 x 8” and 11 x 8” irregularly-shaped wood frames, Kelly creates rich, hazy-colored fields and translucent layers bisected by crisp abstract shapes. His recent sculptures, made of wire, nickel silver, wood, gesso, acrylic, and Japanese paper, are no larger than 10” tall. Loosely inspired by Modernist design, these works possess a quiet grace. Structural woven metal shapes, diaphanous Japanese paper nets, and smooth, nonreferential forms are aged with a patina which reflects Kelly’s love for weathered surfaces.
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Jim Kempner Fine Art is pleased to announce an exhibition of artist/architect, Jim Watt’s 20 newest paintings.
Spring has always been about new beginnings, the smell of magnolias and lilacs, migrating birds, optimism, love, hope, youth and, of course, baseball. This spring, however, as the lilacs and magnolias gloriously bloom and the beautiful birds migrate north, we seem to desperately cling to love and hope and optimism, fearful of the unknown while socially distanced and isolated. And, there is no baseball.
The artist Jim Watt has taken his own optimism and is creating a visual record of our present time replete with love, hope and possibilities. This Spring, throughout the quarantine, as a kind of ritualistic exercise he is painting 100 dreamy, meditative watercolors as his contribution to our new collective psyche. Let these be a small but rich addition to the slow, steady return of our lives. The final painting will be completed on June 19th, the last official day of spring.
As Watt fills his studio walls with his 9 x 12" paintings, they will become available for sale. Each painting is $350 framed.
"Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night." –Rainer Maria Rilke
Jim Kempner Fine Art is pleased to present an exhibition of recent prints by Charlie Hewitt. These relief prints - blends of woodcut and linocut - are a colorful celebration of the regional geography of the coast of Maine, where Hewitt grew up and now lives. Since the resurgence of the woodcut in the 1980's, Hewitt has cut and gouged his way into the very soul of the medium. The physicality of this body of work reflects Hewitt’s emotional connection to the regional landscape, as well as his appreciation for the tactility of the medium. Recognizable shapes of buoys, waves, and lighthouses create a narrative throughout the show. This imagery is part of Hewitt’s personal iconography and references some of the New England industry Hewitt remembers from his childhood. The prints were printed by master printer David Wolfe, of David Wolfe Editions.
All prints in this show are priced for challenging times. Each is available for $800.
