JENNY KEMP
Tribeca, NY – Duane Thomas Gallery is thrilled to announce its first collaboration with American artist Jenny Kemp, and its upcoming solo exhibition titled “Midsection” featuring recent paintings. The exhibition will open on November 22, 2024, at the gallery’s Tribeca location with a reception 6/8pm.
Jenny Kemp’s “Midsection” provides an in-depth look into this young artist innovative foray into abstraction. Working with a highly personal and intuitive approach, Kemp creates compositions that evoke a distinctly feminine and fluid space. Often working from a revelatory grid of pathways that forms the background of her compositions, she blurs the lines between figurative and hard edged abstract sensibilities.
She cites as Influences early modernism and the work of the Chicago Imagists. In her paintings Kemp bands together shapes that may be interpreted as tubes, paths, or organs, and owns up to a tradition that is distinctly American, and championed by Women Artists since Georgia O’Keefe, to hold a spiritual light to the inner workings of a Woman’s body and a Woman’s mind.
The work without inching towards the political expresses with precision and subtlety a feminist sensibility evoked in the concept of Miriam Shapiro and Judy Chicago’s “Central Core,” whereby a feminine aesthetic can be expressed not as an opposition to the masculine, but as a singular force that holds its own complexities and subtleties.
Jenny Kemp received her BS in Art from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her MFA in Painting from the University at Albany. Her work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally, most recently in solo exhibitions in Shenzhen, China, at KennaXu Gallery (in collaboration with Chambers Fine Art), Gold/Montclair in Montclair, NJ, as well as a two-person exhibitions at Turley Gallery in Hudson and Transmitter in New York City. Recent group exhibitions include shows at JDJ, McKenzie Fine Art, 5-50 Gallery, and Kenise Barnes Gallery. Featured publications include 100 Painters of Tomorrow, published by Thames and Hudson, New American Paintings, The Huffington Post, Seattle’s City
Arts, and Chronogram. She is a 2015 NYFA Fellowship recipient in painting.
Join us for the opening reception of Jenny Kemp “Midsection” on November 22nd, 2024. The exhibition will be on view through December 20th, 2024.
For more information about the exhibition and to learn more about Jenny Kemp, contact us [email protected]
Contact:
Duane Thomas Gallery
, Tribeca, NY
