Jun
7
to Aug 31
May
8
to Jun 8
Losing Control: John Cage x Ilona Golovina
Join us on May 8th, 2025 from 6PM - 8PM for the opening of Losing Control: John Cage x Ilona Golovina
This exhibition is a celebration of uncertainty. While John Cage traces stones without imposing order, Ilona Golovina allows clay, fire, and gravity to shape her forms.
May
1
to Jun 1
Jessica Helfand: Character Studies
Join us on May 1st, 2025 from 6PM - 8PM for the opening of Jessica Helfand’s solo exhibition Character Studies
Character Studies is a project that reimagines the faces of some our most beloved fictional protagonists as a collaboration with the authors who once created them.
Apr
10
to May 4
A Delicate Balance
Join us on April 10th, 2025 from 6PM - 8PM for the opening of A Delicate Balance
Feb
5
to Feb 16
Valentine's Day Gift List
Love is a many splendored thing!
To celebrate we have put together a gift list of art for lovers starting at $75. Please reach out now to inquire about any work you see and so you can have in time for date night.
Dec
1
to Feb 2
Jim Watt | 100 Watercolors For The New Year
As we ring in 2025 Jim Watt will be completing 100 watercolors as a meditation on and celebration of the possibility of what's next. As paintings are completed they will become available for purchase. All paintings are 11x15", priced at $450 framed.
“The thing I love most about working with watercolors is that it requires getting comfortable with uncertainty. Intention, surprises and improvisation are happening all at once.”
Nov
24
to Dec 7
Nov
14
to Dec 15
Charlie Hewitt | New Paintings
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!
Nov
7
to Dec 1
MANUEL KNAPP | NEW SCULPTURE
Join us on Thursday, November 7th, 2024 from 6pm - 8pm for our opening reception Manuel Knapp | New Sculpture.
Oct
12
to Oct 13
Hand-carved Linoleum Reduction Process by Dave Lefner
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.
Sep
26
to Oct 20
Jim Watt | New Paintings
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.
Sep
5
to Sep 27
Selections from Inventory
Stop by and check out our current exhibition of our fall selections!
Open Tuesday - Saturday from 10am - 6pm and Sunday 12pm - 5pm.
Jul
11
to Aug 4
Slaughter on 10th Ave
Join us July 11th, from 6pm - 8pm for the opening reception of Slaughter on 10th Ave. An exhibition featuring artists, Tom Slaughter and Nell Jocelyn Slaughter!
Jun
21
to Aug 31
Jun
16
5:00 PM17:00
KNOCKOUT
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.
May
16
to Jun 23
Jessica Helfand | The Service Society
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.
Apr
11
to May 11
Off the Grid
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.
Mar
12
to Apr 14
Spring Group Show
SPRING GROUP SHOW
Featuring Helen Frankenthaler, Charlie Hewitt, Rashid Johnson, Jay Kelly, Christian Marclay, Pablo Picasso, James Siena, Kiki Smith, Jim Watt, and more!
Feb
15
to Feb 18
IFPDA 2024 | Park Ave Armory New York
Come join us for the IFPDA Print Fair at Park Ave Armory
February 15th - February 18th
Feb
8
to Mar 10
Faces & Figures
Faces & Figures
Thursday, February 8th - Sunday, March 10th
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Nov
14
to Nov 19
THE MADNESS OF ART AND JEWELRY
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
Nov
2
to Jan 3
STILL MOVING: Photography by Danny Clinch
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!
Oct
26
to Oct 29
Sep
28
to Oct 29
Mad Abstract
Opens Thursday, September, 28th
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
Jun
21
to Aug 18
May
30
to Jul 16
Christopher Beane: Baroquecoco Bodega
On View:
Tuesday, May 30th - Saturday, July 16th
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Snuff Box Magazine
Launching June 1st @ Jim Kempner Fine Art
Come & Get It!
$20 each
Apr
20
to May 25
Apr
20
to May 25
Jay Kelly | A Survey: 1980-Present
After 3 decades in a private collection we are please to present 9 of Jay Kelly’s photo-realist paintings from the 1980s.
Mar
16
to Apr 23
Roar!!!
ROAR!
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
Oct
25
to Dec 31
25 YEARS / 35 YEARS
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
May
19
to Jul 1
Charlie Hewitt: New Work
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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