7 DECADES | 42 ARTISTS IS A SORT OF HOMAGE TO THE RICH, REWARDING WORLD OF PRINTMAKING
Jim Kempner Fine Art is pleased to announce Making Tracks: The Complete Tracks and Made in Tampa Clay Pieces. The exhibition will show the Tracks series in its entirety for the first time in the United States (last shown in Basel 1976). It will also include all five of the Made in Tampa Clay Pieces. The exhibition, which brings together works from both private collections and public institutions, is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalog with an essay by Rauschenberg scholar Robert S. Mattison (author of Robert Rauschenberg: Breaking Boundaries) and an interview with Rauschenberg’s collaborator Alan Eaker.
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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.
Jim Kempner Fine Art will present an exhibition of Robert Rauschenberg's prints, drawings and objects from the 60's through the 90's from November 1 through December 14. The show will feature early prints from ULAE, Gemini Cardbird constructions from the early 70's, Bellini prints from the 80's, and Opal Gospel, a rare multiple included in Rauschenberg's 1976 retrospective at the National Gallery in Washington. The gallery is located at 501 West 23rd Street at Tenth Avenue. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10-6; and Sunday from 10-5.
Currently, Rauschenberg's work is the subject of a major retrospective at both the uptown and downtown branches of the Guggenheim.
For further information, please contact the gallery.
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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