“I want to explore that tension between the surface quality - the material quality of the canvas itself, including the oil paint on the canvas - and the representation of space that pulls you through the canvas. That tension oscillates between an implied spatial depth and a complete lack of space in the sense of the twodimensional material thing that sits on the face of the canvas.
-Jim Watt
501 West 23 rd Street
New York, NY 10011 (212) 206-6872
info@jimkempner.com
www.jimkempnerfineart.com
Clave 1, 2024, Oil on canvas, 40 x 30 inches (2)
Clave 2, 2024, Oil on canvas, 48 x 60 inches
Clave 3, 2024, Oil on canvas, 60 x 72 inches
Miles in Paris 3, 2024, Oil on canvas, 24 x 18 inches
Miles in Paris 6, 2024, Oil on canvas, 24 x 30 inches
Miles in Paris 8, 2024, Oil on canvas, 48 x 60 inches
Miles in Paris 9, 2024, Oil on canvas, 48 x 60 inches
Renanthera 4, 2024, Oil on canvas, 72 x 60 inches
Renanthera 5, 2024, Oil on canvas, 24 x 18 inches
Renanthera 6, 2024, Oil on canvas, 60 x 72 inches
JIM KEMPNER FINE ART
Jim Kempner Fine Art specializes in contemporary paintings, sculpture, photography, and works on paper, with a special emphasis on contemporary master prints and outdoor sculpture. Our inventory appeals to the established as well as beginning collector. We work closely with art advisors, designers, corporations and museums to expand and enrich their varied collections.
Located in the heart of Chelsea, the gallery’s three story modernist-inspired structure designed by architects Smith & Thompson boasts one of the few outdoor sculpture gardens in New York City, and is included in a number of books about contemporary architecture. Our inventory includes work by Donald Baechler, John Baldessari, Louise Bourgeois, Christo, Chuck Close, Richard Diebenkorn, Jim Dine, Sam Francis, Helen Frankenthaler, Spencer Finch, Jane Hammond, David Hockney, Howard Hodgkin, Jasper Johns, Deborah Kass, Alex Katz, Ellsworth Kelly, William Kentridge, Jeff Koons, Robert Mangold, Robert Motherwell (Jim Kempner Fine Art represents the Dedalus Foundation, Robert Motherwell’s print archive, in New York), Sol Lewitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Longo, Elizabeth Peyton, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist, Ed Ruscha, Paula Scher, Sean Scully, Frank Stella, Donald Sultan, Wayne Thiebaud, Andy Warhol and others.
Among the contemporary artists whose work we represent are Robert Attanasio, Christopher Beane, Long-Bin Chen, Jeff Chyatte, Lin Emery, Rinaldo Frattolillo, Carole Freeman, Gianfranco Gorgoni, John Henry, Charlie Hewitt, Jay Kelly, Manuel Knapp, Nora Ligorano and Marshall Reese, Jerry Mischak, David Mitchell, Jacob Ouillette, Greg Parker, Robert Petersen, Jenna Pirello, Randy Regier, Paula Scher, Henry Schiowitz, Tom Slaughter, Pal Svensson, Boaz Vaadia, Bernar Venet, and Jim Watt.
Jim Kempner Fine Art at its present location in the fall of 1997. Jim Kempner has published prints by Rinaldo Frattolillo, Charlie Hewitt, Robert Indiana, Paula Scher, Bernar Venet, in addition to Gianfranco Gorgoni’s photographs of Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty. Other publications include Ligorano/Reese’s Line Up portfolio, Untitled 2001 silkscreen, and the DEMOCRACY lightbox, made in collaboration with former gallery director Dru Arstark, under the name Madness of Art Editions. Jim has also published a number of his own prints, beginning with Apocryphal Now, in 2014.
