Jim Kempner Fine Art is pleased to announce Jim Dine: Years Ago & Now, an exhibition which celebrates the illustrious career of one of the most influential Post-War American artists. The exhibition will feature five of the artist’s most recent editions, a significant painted bronze Venus sculpture, and a selection of prints and unique work from the 1960s and 1970s. The exhibition will be on view from February 11th– March 29th, 2016. An opening reception for the public will be held on Thursday, February 11th, from 5– 7 pm.

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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.

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Jim Kempner Fine Art is pleased to announce an exhibition of prints by Jim Dine from the 70's through the 90's from April 22 through May 30th.

The show will include a selection of the artist's signature images including hearts, robes, tools, Venuses and flowers. Dine uses - and frequently combines- intaglio, lithography, woodcut and screenprint. The exhibition will feature several of his hand-colored prints. The gallery is located at 501 West 23rd Street at Tenth Avenue. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10-6; and Sundays from 12-5.

Jim Dine is recognized as one of the most important and innovative printmakers of our time. Since the early 60's, he has consistently acknowledged his robes, hearts and tools as the stand-ins of autobiography: the robe as self-portrait, the heart as a "cleaved, full object" associated with the emotions, tools as the utilitarian artifacts of his grandfather's hardware store in Cincinnati. These remain in the Dine iconography, treated as sensual physical objects or dematerialized as the symbols of Dine's private life. In the association of these themes with male and female roles, the robes, hearts and tools are the prototypes for Dine's expanded vocabulary of subjects, still characterized by their sexual references but now frequently paired or given a landscape context: trees, plants, flowers, and shells.

Jim Dine is recognized as one of the most important and innovative printmakers of our time. There will also be several of his hand-colored prints in the show.

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.

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.

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