Jim Kempner Fine Art is pleased to announce an exhibition of recent drawings by Jonathan Santlofer from September 12 through October 19. Concurrently, there will be an exhibition of prints and unique works by Andy Warhol. The gallery is located at 501 West 23 Street (corner 10th Avenue and 23rd Street). Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10-6.
In this new series of graphite drawings, Jonathan Santlofer continues his long-standing fascination with illusion and reality as well as his exploration of artists and icons. Issues of truth are pushed to the extreme: trompe l’oeil painted tape, meticulously rendered rips and tears all telegraph to the viewer that what he or she is looking at is “real.” The drawings hover somewhere between photography and documentation while playing with and challenging both of those mediums.
In these mock ‘photographs’ artists such as Man Ray, Duchamp, Robert Mapplethorpe, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Andy Warhol intrude upon their most famous images: Mapplethorpe poses between his gorgeous study of an eggplant and his notorious Man In the Polyester Suit; Warhol bears witness to Jackie and Marilyn meeting in his studio; Duchamp kisses Andy Warhol’s gun shot wounds.
At once mechanical and hand-made in appearance, these ambitious, often ambiguous works on paper are equally witty and deadpan. They invite the viewer into a conversation not only with the artists depicted in each drawing, but with a much larger dialogue on the nature of image-making, narrative, truth and illusion.
A separate exhibition of works by Andy Warhol will feature some of the artist’s best his silkscreen prints including Marilyn #30, 1967, Rebel Without a Cause (James Dean), 1985, and Shoes, a silkscreen with diamond dust from 1980. All eleven images from the Flash, November 22, 1968 portfoilio of images related to the John F. Kennedy assassination will be on view, as well as rare, early ink-blot drawings of children from a private collection.
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