Arnold J. Kemp: On view at The Drawing Center, July 15, 2016 - September 02, 2016

Open Sessions 7: Hibernating Plan is a group exhibition that considers drawing in relationship to the sense of suspended time inherent in planning. Featuring artists Sheree Hovsepian, Rafael Kelman, Arnold Kemp, Thessia Machado, Sun Moqing, Sara Chang Yan, and Tuguldur Yondonjamts, the exhibition explores the notion of the “sketch” in relation to the instinct to hibernate, intuit, and mull over. Including works that feature light, sound, drawing, sculpture, and moving image, Hibernating Plan suggests that drawing exists alongside other forms of knowledge that cannot be exclusively acquired by observation, reason, or experience.

July 15, 2016 - September 02, 2016

Arnold Kemp:

Drawing is a central part of my process and often the end result. I also produce print, sculpture, text and performance. My work takes advantage of an impure aesthetic, incorporating high and low culture, while foregrounding practices that probe collective fictions of person and personality. In this I am concerned with representations of blacks, blackness, or (the color) black within a stealthy fugitive movement that breaks normalizing enclosures.