Jim Kempner Fine Art is pleased to announce its upcoming exhibition, Minimalennialism, a large group show of 21st Century Minimalist paintings, drawings, prints and sculpture by over 15 artists, including Ellsworth Kelly, Jay Kelly, Sol Lewitt, Julia Mangold, Robert Mangold, Brice Marden, Wes Mills, Greg Parker, Carole Seborovski and others. The dates of the show are March 31 through May 5, 2001. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, March 31 from 6-8 pm. The gallery is located at 501 West 23rd Street (entrance on Tenth Avenue). Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10-6, and Sunday by appointment.

Throughout the 1960's and 1970's, formally reductive abstraction was employed by a range of artists who worked with similar vocabularies, but to radically different ends. Many artists working today continue the exploration of simplified form and color, the repetition of elements, objectifying the painting as object, and the universal "purity" of spirit of the minimalist esthetic.

Highlights by younger artists include the small, seductive minimalist drawings by Jay Kelly executed in pastel and graphite on vellum; the more austere grid and geometric form paintings by Greg Parker done in oil, pigment and graphite; the spare, poetic paintings and drawings by Wes Mills; and the severe steel sculptures by Greg Corn and Julia Mangold.

Featured works among the "minimalist masters" are Ellsworth Kelly's recent prints of boldly colored simplified curves published by Gemini; a set of seven small woodcuts by Robert Mangold, which accompany his recently editioned catalogue raisonne published by Parasol Press; and a charcoal grey and orange curvilinear drawing by Sol Lewitt.