Midsection

Duane Thomas Gallery is excited to present its inaugural collaboration with American artist Jenny Kemp, featuring the solo exhibition titled Midsection, which will showcase her recent paintings. Jenny Kemp’s Midsection offers an in-depth exploration of her innovative approach to abstraction. With a highly personal and intuitive style, Kemp's compositions evoke a distinctly feminine and fluid space. Often starting from a grid of pathways that form the backdrop of her work, she skillfully blurs the boundaries between figurative and geometric abstraction. Kemp draws inspiration from early modernism and the Chicago Imagists. Her paintings feature shapes that can be interpreted as tubes, paths, or organs. She embraces a distinctly American tradition championed by women artists since Georgia O’Keeffe, illuminating the spiritual dimensions of a woman's body and mind. Jenny Kemp holds a BS in Art from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an MFA in Painting from the University at Albany. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, with recent solo exhibitions at KennaXu Gallery in Shenzhen, China (in collaboration with Chambers Fine Art), Gold/Montclair in Montclair, NJ, and two-person exhibitions at Turley Gallery in Hudson and Transmitter in New York City. Recent group shows include exhibitions at JDJ, McKenzie Fine Art, 5-50 Gallery, and Kenise Barnes Gallery. Her work has been featured in notable publications, including 100 Painters of Tomorrow (Thames and Hudson), New American Paintings, The Huffington Post, Seattle’s City Arts, and Chronogram. She is also a recipient of the 2015 NYFA Fellowship in painting.