7 DECADES | 42 ARTISTS IS A SORT OF HOMAGE TO THE RICH, REWARDING WORLD OF PRINTMAKING
Jim Kempner is pleased to announce "HueLess," an exhibition of black and white prints by Ellsworth Kelly, Brice Marden, Richard Serra, Lucian Freud, Cy Twombly, Howard Hodgkin, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol and others, from November 4 through December 2. Continuing in a long tradition in the history of print making when Durer first printed black ink on light colored paper, contemporary artists are still enthralled with the richness and varying tones of black contrasted with white. Focusing on shape, surface and line, the works in this exhibition will include, woodcuts, etchings, lithographs and silkscreens . The gallery is located at 501 West 23rd Street at Tenth Avenue (nearest subways are the C,E at 23rd and 8th Avenue). Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10-6, Sunday by appointment. Email: jkfa@interport.net. Website: www.artnet.com/jkfa.html.
Featured in the exhibition will be Brice Marden's 12 Views for Caroline Tatyana,1977-79, a stunning portfolio of etchings with aquatint inspired by ancient Greek architecture, which play with the contrasts between light and dark and solid and void, and Richard Serra's lushly textured Jump Start, 1996. Other highlights will include Rank, 1964, one of the early stone lithographs by Robert Rauschenberg that accompanied the Dante's Inferno portfolio; Andy Warhol's Shoes, 1980, a luxurious black and white screenprint with diamond dust; and a rare Twombly lithograph from 1971 with his signature mark making.
Jim Kempner Fine Art will present the exhibition, Now & Then, which will focus on the changes that have occured in the prints of a select group of contemporary artists who have, over the past 30 or 40 years, made printmaking an integral part of their artistic ouvre. This presentation will give the viewer an opportunity to compare and study an artist's initial explorations in a given print medium to his/her later work. Installed, side by side, will be an example of an early and recent editioned print by the following artists: Robert Rauschenberg, Brice Marden, Helen Frankenthaler, Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, Jim Dine, Jennifer Bartlett, Elizabeth Murray, Robert Motherwell and others.
An example of our selection can be found in the presentation of prints by Robert Rauschenberg. Front Roll, a beautiful two-color lithograph from stone, was published by ULAE in 1964. It was printed in two runs on white wove paper and measures 41 1/4 x 29 13/16", from an edition of 39. It will be installed with a current print from the same publisher titled Storyline, 1997, from the Ground Rules series, an intaglio,47 1/2 x 37 1/2", from an edition of 44.
The gallery is located at 501 West 23rd Street in Chelsea, northwest corner of Tenth Avenue. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10-6; and Sunday from 12-5.
Telephone: (212) 206-6872.
