Jim Kempner Fine Art will present Changing Faces, an exhibition of contemporary portraits by Chuck Close, Jim Dine, Lucian Freud, Elizabeth Peyton, Jonathan Santlofer, Cindy Sherman, Andy Warhol, Brenda Zlamany, and others. The show, which opens June 12 and runs through July 24, will include prints, drawings, photographs and paintings. The gallery is located at 501 West 23rd Street. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10-6; and Sundays in June from 12-5. In a recent article about contemporary portraiture in Art on Paper, Terrie Sultan, curator of contemporary art at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, states:

"The triangulation of perception in a portrait is essential to its expressive force. Balanced among subject, artist, and viewer is the external and internal identity of a portrait. How we understand the portrait depends on how our gaze has been defined, refined, and informed by our own experience and social milieu.... In the most effective portraits, artists have factored in this ambiguous position, opening their subjects to a range of meanings even as they fix them in a specific time and place."

Through a selection of artists with diverse styles, the exhibition will explore the changing face of the traditional artistic terrain of the directed gaze in the late 20th Century. Highlights will include Large Head, the powerful etching of Leigh Bowery by Lucian Freud; and Self-Portrait I and Self-Portrait II, two new, deeply embossed relief prints on hand made paper, made with a special hydraulic press. Other artists in the exhibition include Deborah Barrett, John Currin, Andrew Ehrenwerth, Jessica Gandolf, Gianfranco Gorgoni, Alex Katz, and William Kentridge.

For further information, please contact the gallery at 212-206-6872

Parts I & II

January 6 - March 1, 1997

JIM KEMPNER FINE ART presents a group exhibition of master prints at his Chelsea gallery from January 6 - March 1, 1997. The exhibit will include many striking examples of contemporary American printmaking by the following artists: JOHN BALDESSARI, JENNIFER BARTLETT, ROSS BLECKNER, LOUISE BOURGEOIS, CHUCK CLOSE, JIM DINE, SAM FRANCIS, HELEN FRANKENTHALER, DAVID HOCKNEY, HOWARD HODGKIN, ROY LICHTENSTEIN, BRICE MARDEN, ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG, ED RUSCHA, FRANK STELLA, and ANDY WARHOL.

The exhibition will be held in two parts. Part I will be installed for the month of January and Part II for the month of February. The print media presented will include: color lithography, silkscreen, etching, woodcut, photogravure and multiples of a variety of media. This exhibition offers our viewers an opportunity to view a strong selection of American printmaking from the 1960s-1990s. During this period of American contemporary art there occurred a literal leap in the technological processes in printmaking. Artists and printers began to establish a different kind of working relationship, making the print project a collaboration. Their efforts pushed the limits of traditional methods of making prints. By the mid 1980s, print publishers such as Tyler Graphics, ULAE, Graphicstudio and Gemini were outfitting their print shops with state-of-the-art equipment to produce large, more multiple process editions. Our exhibition will include work made in this span of four decades, from the more established shops as well as editions made by other lesser known publishers.

Our gallery hours are: Tuesdays - Saturdays, 10-6 and Sundays 12-5.

For further information please contact the gallery.