Artist
Kurt Kemp (American, born 1957)American, born 1957
CultureAmerican
Titles
- Portrait of a Friend
Date2001
MediumGouache on newsprint
DimensionsSheet: 26 3/16 × 20 in. (66.5 × 50.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Renée and Stanford Wallace
Object number2023.93
Not on view
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Exhibition HistoryHouston, Hooks-Epstein Gallery, “Kurt Kemp: I want to be James Ensor,” 2000.
Houston, Hooks-Epstein Gallery, “Kurt Kemp: My Constellations,” October 27-December 1, 2001
Kurt Kemp: recent Work, Udinotti Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ 2011
No Room to Breathe, Kurt Kemp and Chris Jehly, Lower Haters, San Francisco, CA 2011
Pin Up, Kurt Kemp and Mark Perlman Collaborations, Aurobora Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2011
Living Wall, Kurt Kemp and Mark Perlman, Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, Sonoma, CA 2010-11
When a Black Heart Bleeds, Portland Community College, Sylvania Campus, Portland, OR 2009
Kurt Kemp, Ten Year Survey, Center for the Print Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY 2009
Dear Eliesa, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, TX 2008
Sad Circus (Where's My Twenty?), Collaborative Print Exhibition with Mark Perlman, Aurobora Press, San Francisco, CA 2007
Irony and Allegory, Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, TN 2005 The Personal Politics, Davidson Gallery, Seattle, WA 2007
Intuitive Response, Clark Hall Gallery, Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, LA 2004
The Hen House Drawings, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, TX 2003
Frogman Press & Gallery in conjunction with workshop and print made at University of South Dakota, Beresford, SD 2003
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Recto: Signed in graphite, right bottom edge: Kurt Kemp [cursive]
Frame verso: Inscribed in graphite, top left corner: Portrait / 2001 / Gouache / 27 1/2 x 25 1/2 [print]
Frame verso: Inscribed in graphite, top left corner: Portrait / 2001 / Gouache / 27 1/2 x 25 1/2 [print]
Recto: Signed in graphite, right bottom edge: Kurt Kemp [cursive]
Recto: [none]
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