Apocryphal Now
2014
Jim Kempner's "Apocryphal Now" from 2014 exemplifies the artist's ongoing investigation into the intersection of contemporary media and historical narrative. This work, numbered 78 of 80 in the edition, demonstrates Kempner's characteristic approach to printmaking, where traditional techniques serve his conceptual explorations of truth and documentation in our digital age. At over a meter in height, the piece commands attention while maintaining the intimate quality that has made Kempner's work increasingly sought after by collectors focused on contemporary American printmaking.
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Christopher Wool
American · b. 1955
Wool creates large format black and white screenprints that foreground typography and text as visual and conceptual elements, interrogating language and meaning in ways that closely parallel Kempner's monochromatic, text driven conceptual printmaking.
Barbara Kruger
American · b. 1945
Kruger combines bold black and white graphic design with provocative typography to interrogate media, truth, and power structures, sharing Kempner's conceptual use of monochrome screenprint and text to critique contemporary information and documentation.
Glenn Ligon
American · b. 1960
Ligon produces large scale conceptual text based works using screenprint and stencil techniques in black and white, using typography as both visual material and vehicle for examining historical narrative and contested truth, closely mirroring Kempner's thematic and formal approach.
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