Jim Watt Presents 100 Watercolors for Spring

Spring has always been about new beginnings; the smell of magnolias and lilacs, migrating birds, optimism, love, hope, youth and of course, baseball. This spring however as the lilacs and magnolias gloriously bloomed and the beautiful birds migrated North, we seem to desperately cling to love and hope and optimism, fearful of the unknown while socially distanced and isolated. And there is no baseball.

Jim Watt has taken his own optimism and created a visual record of our time replete with love, hope and possibilities. This spring, throughout the quarantine, as a kind of ritualistic exercise he is creating 100 dreamy meditative watercolors as his contribution to our new collective psyche. Let these be a small but rich addition to the slow, steady return of our lives. The last painting will be completed on June 19th, the last official day of Spring.

As Watt fills his studio walls with his 9 x 12” paintings they will become available for sale. Each painting is $350 framed. Email info@jimkempner.com to inquire about any available paintings.

Stay tuned as Jim Watt’s studio wall fills up!

Jim Kempner Fine Art specializes in contemporary paintings, sculpture, photography, and works on paper, with a special emphasis on contemporary master prints and outdoor sculpture. Our inventory appeals to the established as well as beginning collector. We work closely with art advisors, designers, corporations and museums to expand and enrich their varied collections.

Located in the heart of Chelsea, the gallery’s three story modernist-inspired structure designed by architects Smith & Thompson boasts one of the few outdoor sculpture gardens in New York City, and is included in a number of books about contemporary architecture. Our inventory includes work by Donald Baechler, John Baldessari, Louise Bourgeois, Christo, Chuck Close, Richard Diebenkorn, Jim Dine, Sam Francis, Helen Frankenthaler, Spencer Finch, Jane Hammond, David Hockney, Howard Hodgkin, Jasper Johns, Deborah Kass, Alex Katz, Ellsworth Kelly, William Kentridge, Jeff Koons, Robert Mangold, Robert Motherwell (Jim Kempner Fine Art represents the Dedalus Foundation, Robert Motherwell’s print archive, in New York), Sol Lewitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Longo, Elizabeth Peyton, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist, Ed Ruscha, Paula Scher, Sean Scully, Frank Stella, Donald Sultan, Wayne Thiebaud, Andy Warhol and others.

Among the contemporary artists whose work we represent are Robert Attanasio, Christopher Beane, Long Bin Chen, Jeff Chyatte, Lin Emery, Rinaldo Frattolillo, Carole Freeman, Gianfranco Gorgoni, John Henry, Charlie Hewitt, Jay Kelly, Manuel Knapp, Nora Ligorano and Marshall Reese, Jerry Mischak, David Mitchell, Craig Norton, Jacob Ouillette, Greg Parker, Robert Petersen, Jenna Pirello, Randy Regier, Paula Scher, Henry Schiowitz, Tom Slaughter, Pal Svensson, Boaz Vaadia, Bernar Venet, Jim Watt, Shanlin Ye.

Formerly a private dealer, Jim Kempner opened his gallery, Jim Kempner Fine Art, at its present location in the fall of 1997. Jim Kempner has published prints by Rinaldo Frattolillo, Charlie Hewitt, Robert Indiana, Paula Scher, Bernar Venet, in addition to Gianfranco Gorgoni’s photographs of Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty. Other publications include Ligorano/Reese’s Line Up portfolio, Untitled 2001 silkscreen, and the DEMOCRACY lightbox, made in collaboration with former gallery director Dru Arstark, under the name Madness of Art Editions. Additionally, he has published his first editioned print, Apocryphal Now, in 2014.

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