Jim Kempner is pleased to announce "HueLess," an exhibition of black and white prints by Ellsworth Kelly, Brice Marden, Richard Serra, Lucian Freud, Cy Twombly, Howard Hodgkin, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol and others, from November 4 through December 2. Continuing in a long tradition in the history of print making when Durer first printed black ink on light colored paper, contemporary artists are still enthralled with the richness and varying tones of black contrasted with white. Focusing on shape, surface and line, the works in this exhibition will include, woodcuts, etchings, lithographs and silkscreens . The gallery is located at 501 West 23rd Street at Tenth Avenue (nearest subways are the C,E at 23rd and 8th Avenue). Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10-6, Sunday by appointment. Email: [email protected]. Website: www.artnet.com/jkfa.html.

Featured in the exhibition will be Brice Marden's 12 Views for Caroline Tatyana,1977-79, a stunning portfolio of etchings with aquatint inspired by ancient Greek architecture, which play with the contrasts between light and dark and solid and void, and Richard Serra's lushly textured Jump Start, 1996. Other highlights will include Rank, 1964, one of the early stone lithographs by Robert Rauschenberg that accompanied the Dante's Inferno portfolio; Andy Warhol's Shoes, 1980, a luxurious black and white screenprint with diamond dust; and a rare Twombly lithograph from 1971 with his signature mark making.

Jim Kempner Fine Art is pleased to announce an exhibition of Andy Warhol, from September 14 through October 31, 2000. The exhibition will include a selection of prints and unique pieces from the 60's through the 80's. The gallery is located at 501 West 23rd Street at Tenth Avenue. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10-6, Sunday by appointment. Nearest subway is the C,E at 23rd and 8th Avenue.

Highlights of the show will include Warhol's Shoes from1980, a portfolio of five screenprints with diamond dust; Campbell Soup Cans from 1969; and Mao prints from the early 1970's. In addition, unique works on paper will be featured, such as a Multiple Marilyn, 1978. Representing some of his early works will be the multiple object Kiss from 1966, a screenprint on plexiglass with a plexiglass mount.

Warhol stands out as the foremost figure in the Pop Art movement and a major influence on the contemporary art world. Along with Robert Rauschenberg, he was the first artist to use commercial screenprinting in his paintings as well as his prints.

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Jim Kempner Fine Art is pleased to announce an exhibition of recent drawings by Jay Kelly from March 11 through April 16. Executed in pastel and graphite on vellum, these small, seductive minimalist works are subtle distillations of pure geometric forms. This will be the artist's first solo show at the gallery. Jim Kempner Fine Art is located at 501 West 23rd Street (entrance at Tenth Avenue). Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10-6; and Sunday from 12-5.

Known as a photorealist painter of industrial landscapes, in his recent abstract work, Kelly pares down the fundamental visual elements in architecture and landscape to their purest essence of color and shape. The drawings, which measure from 3 x 6" to 5 x 5," are subtle in coloration, have a soft, diffuse, serene quality, and emanate light and depth. From a review of a recent show in San Francisco, one critic writes:

..Some patterns bring to mind the striations we have learned to associate with forensic DNA testing. Others suggest fence posts against a field of snow...

The art of Kelly's drawings is in activating a very small working space without giving scale to what happens within it. Though Kelly's pieces have not a trace of turbulence, the eye is always at sea in them....

Jay Kelly has exhibited at Graystone Gallery in San Francisco and at O.K. Harris in New York. Examples of his new work have recently been acquired by The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Jim Kempner Fine Art is pleased to announce an exhibition of works on paper by Sam Francis, from February 10 through March 4, 2000. The exhibition will include a selection of prints and drawings from the 60's through the 90's. Several of the prints in the show were made at the Litho Shop, Sam Francis's own print shop which he established in 1970. The gallery is located at 501 West 23rd Street at Tenth Avenue. Hours are Tuesday through Friday from 10-6.

Sam Francis's hightly personal style of spontaneous, immediate application of paint to canvas and paper gave rise to a new French term which was soon internationalized: tachisme, in essence, the art of spots and stains. Regardless of the medium, Francis reveals a consummate unity with process. Remarkably, he has been able to transfer the same combination of spontaneous gesture and signature abstract forms to the graphic media, which appear to be as intuitive and direct as his painting.

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