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.

Jim Kempner will inaugurate the fall season at his new gallery location in Chelsea with an exhibition of Jennifer Bartlett prints and drawings from the 70's through the 90's. The exhibition will feature seminal graphic works from her important series In the Garden, The Elements, The Seasons, and Rhapsody. The show will also include several drawings from In the Garden and her recent Earth series. The dates of the exhibition are September 11 through October 18. The gallery is now located in Chelsea, at 501 West 23 Street (entrance on 10th Avenue), New York City. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10-6; and Sunday from 12-5.

Drawing and printmaking have always been important facets of Bartlett's oeuvre, sharing a common imagery with her paintings. The works in this exhibition will exemplify the artist's mastery of all aspects of drawing and printmaking -etching, woodblock, lithography, silkscreen, aquatint , pastel and colored pencil.

Jennifer Bartlett has been acclaimed as one of the most important painters of her generation. Her work has been widely exhibited in this country and abroad, and is in the collections of such museums as The Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Dallas Museum of Art, among others. She is also the subject of four monographs, Rhapsody (1985), In the Garden (1982), and Air: 24 Hours (1994) by Harry N. Abrams, Inc.; and Jennifer Bartlett (1985) by Abbeville Press.

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.

For further information please contact the gallery.