Kent Fine Art was founded in 1985. Kent Fine Art, Inc. was founded in 1985 by Douglas Walla. Its first location was on the corner of Madison Avenue and 57th Street, in the historic Fuller Building.
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Along with representing contemporary artists such as Dennis Adams, Llyn Foulkes, Paul Laffoley, Antoni Muntadas, Irving Petlin, and Dorothea Tanning, the original Kent Fine Art presented a number of outstanding historical shows, including exhibitions of the work of Medardo Rosso, Francis Picabia, and John Heartfield. In total, Kent would publish over forty scholarly books and organize over two hundred exhibitions worldwide. Previous to opening Kent, Mr. Walla had been vice-president at Marlborough Gallery, where he mounted exhibitions and coordinated affairs for Francis Bacon, Larry Rivers, Alex Katz, Red Grooms, and the Estates of Jacques Lipchitz and Barbara Hepworth. Today, Kent Fine Art LLC is devoted to the careers of a select group of internationally known contemporary artists, organizing six exhibitions a year and publishing extensively in print as well as online.
Operating as usual
On Translation: Fear II
From the On Translation series.The artist explores how fear– a cultural /sociological construction based on politics and economics – is a translated emotion that appears
in very different ways.
Artist: Muntadas
In The Red (2012-16) is the title for a series of recent text-based works that foreground propositions and first person narratives about money, culture, history and journalism. These texts are over laid on found street posters, news photographs, book covers and film stills that push and pull against the visual and semantic readings of the texts. Adams adopts the American expression, In The Red, to mark the fragile link between the global financial recession of the last few years and more subjective accountings of loss. Originally overlaid on predominantly red colored backgrounds, Adams has more recently expanded his palette to a full range of hues, including the dark green used to paint over posters hung in the POST NO BILLS zones of New York.
Artist: Dennis Adams
The City Changes Your Life
I think what happened to me was a precognitive dream on the night before I headed for New York City was a was a precognitive dream brought on by extreme anxiety of being “grand juried” out of “the Harvard Graduate School of Design” for “conceptual deviance.”
As I think back over the 51 years since I did this painting, I cannot actually reconstruct the moment in time when I was motivated to paint this, and with such prophetic specificity. I believe the subject refers to the terrorist attack by plane on the New York’s “World Trade Center” building: (The Twin Towers) on September 11, 2001. That day is when Muslims state that Jesus was born. That date makes more sense to me than December 25th, [a date that was adjusted to Pagan winter solstice festivals in order to draw more people into the fold of forming Christianity]. September 11th in the Middle East would have been rather warm at the 31 ½ st North Latitude in Bethlehem [Bayt Lahm], and a pregnant couple could have stayed in a barn very comfortably.
- Excerpt from The Essential Paul Laffoley
Pat Steir
From the Wave Series, 1986
60 x 160 in. / 152.4 x 406.4 cm
2019
Kent Fine Art's cover photo
Featured Work: Marcel Broodthaers 🐄 -
Diptych, Two Colour lithographs on cream-colored Schoeller-Parole Cardboard 32.1 x 23.6 in. / 81.5 x 60 cm Signed and numbered by the artist No. 26 from the edition of 120 Publisher: Edition Staeck, HeidelbergLiteratureMarcel Broodthaers. Katalog der Editionen Graphik und Bucher. Hannover: Cantz Ve...
"Raise the Curtain" a group exhibition featuring Dennis Adams opens at in Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Lima collaboration with Galería Moisés Pérez de Albéniz in Madrid, Spain.
www.kentfineart.net/dennis-adams-news
Kent Fine Art is a Contemporary Art Gallery featuring Mid-Career to Established Artists based in New York founded in 1985.
Remembering Paul Laffoley -
Our friend, the Boston visionary artist and luminary died two years ago today after a long battle with congestive heart failure. His intelligence, dedication and sense of humor are missed. In the two years since his death, the important monograph THE ESSENTIAL PAUL LAFFOLEY was published by the U...
Antoni Muntadas Video Retrospective at OCAT Gallery, Shanghai
http://ca.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/2642527/antoni-muntadas-video-retrospective-at-ocat-gallery-shanghai
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On View: Irving Petlin at the National Arts Club -
Irving Petlin Opening Tonight from 6-8pm at the National Art Club in New York, NY.
"Tribute to Irving Petlin"
NOVEMBER 1, 2017 - JANUARY 4, 2018
The National Arts Club, New York, NY
Accompanying Catalogue Texts by Max Kozloff, Jon Hendricks,
and D.K. Walla
More Info: http://www.nationalartsclub.org/
MUNTADAS
NOVEMBER 7, 2017 - FEBRUARY 18, 2018
"Art Lessons"
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza
Madrid, Spain
More Info: https://www.museothyssen.org/en/exposiciones/art-lesson
Dennis Adams
NOVEMBER 7, 2017 — FEBRUARY 18, 2018
"Art Lesson"
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza
Madrid, Spain
More Info: https://www.museothyssen.org/en/exposiciones/art-lesson
Opening Tonight: Irving Petlin -
Irving Petlin Opening Tonight from 6-8pm at the National Art Club in New York, NY.
https://www.kentfineart.net/gallery-news/2017/9/8/heide-fasnacht-body-talk
Tracing connections from early to recently acquired objects, this presentation is the first in a series to explore the origins and thematic through lines in the Rose Art Museum’s collection. Beginning with the Surrealist-inspired paintings and collages of Joseph Cornell, André Masson, and Ma
Coinciding with the 100th anniversary of the October Revolution, opening today is "Optical Bronstein," a project by Pablo Helguera and Yevgeniy Fiks at the Museo casa de Leon Trotsky in Coyoacán. It will be on exhibition until November 5.
– Via Julietta Gonzalez, Artistic Director at Fundación Jumex Arte Contemporáneo
"Pablo Helguera Defines the Notion of "Play" in “Strange Oasis”
Blouin ArtInfo, February 2015, Wendy Vogel
http://bcove.me/717ye8bj
Pablo Helguera, interdisciplinary artist, sits down with ArtInfo to talk about his new installation with Kent Fine Art, Strange Oasis.
Kyle Staver chats with David Campbell, Jay Walker, and Alison Stigora for PCA&D - Pennsylvania College of Art & Design
Video by ArtPneuma
https://youtu.be/KP5OQX5-A5U
http://kylestaver.com Filmed by: Sunny Miller (http://sunnymillerphoto.com/) Interviewd by: David Campbell (http://davidcampbellart.com/) Jay Walker (http://...
"Tribute to Irving Petlin"
NOVEMBER 1, 2017 - JANUARY 4, 2018
The National Arts Club, New York, NY
Texts by Max Kozloff, Jon Hendricks,
and D.K. Walla
More Info: http://www.nationalartsclub.org
Save the Date!
Pablo Helguera will be showing in Paris with Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie
Eric Shiner, senior vice president of contemporary art at Sotheby’s:
"Pablo Helguera’s "The School of Panamerican Unrest" (2005). A multi-months-long performance that unfolded between Alaska and Argentina, "The School of Panamerican Unrest" saw artist Pablo Helguera drive through the Americas with a portable schoolhouse and lecture podium as he conducted think tanks, lectures, and artist statements throughout North, Central, and South America. It stands, for me, as one of the most important durational artworks of this century, and its message of unity, dialogue, and collaboration is more important now than ever before."
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/iconic-artworks-21st-century-1092800
How do you choose the most iconic artwork of the 21st century? Some of the art world's leading figures take their best shot.
Irving Petlin
NOVEMBER 1, 2017 - JANUARY 4, 2018
"Tribute to Irving Petlin"
National Arts Club
New York, NY
Texts by Max Kozloff, Jon Hendricks,
and D.K. Walla
More Info: http://www.nationalartsclub.org/Default.aspx?p=DynamicModule&PageId=399835&ssid=323191&vnf=1
A la Paul Laffoley
The pavilion calls attention to its potential to combat a number of issues around the world like malnutrition and climate change.
Heide Fasnacht talks about her project, "Suspect Terrain," from two years ago at Socrates Sculpture Park.
https://vimeo.com/137628175
This short film documents an interview with artist Heide Fasnacht during which she answers questions about Suspect Terrain, her sculptural interpretation of a sinkhole.…
Trained as both an artist and a fashion designer, Judith Shea’s earliest works in the 1970s explored minimalist interventions in clothing items, like the pan...
Pablo Helguera : "The Schoolhouse and The Bus: Mobility, Pedagogy, and Engagement, Two Projects by Pablo Helguera and Suzanne Lacy / Pilar Riaño-Alcalá"
AD&A Museum
UC Santa Barbara
On view September 27, 2017 – December 8, 2017
deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum
This gloomy, gray weather is making us even more excited for the bright colors in "Cool Medium: Art, Television & Psychedelia, 1960-1980," opening October 6! Learn more about this entrancing exhibition at decordova.org/coolmedium.
Image: Paul Laffoley, "The Ultimate Quest," 1968, oil, acrylic and hand applied vinyl lettering on canvas, 50 x 50 inches, Gift of the Estate of Paul Laffoley.
Irving Petlin
SEPTEMBER 15, 2017-APRIL 8, 2018
"L'art du Pastel de Degas á Redón"
Petit Palais, musée des Beaux-arts de la Ville de Paris
Paris, France
More Info: http://www.petitpalais.paris.fr/en/expositions/art-pastel-degas-redon
Paul Laffoley
OCTOBER 7, 2017 - SEPTEMBER 7, 2018
The Great Mystery Show
American Visionary Art Museum
Baltimore, Maryland
More Info: http://www.avam.org/exhibitions/current-exhibitions.shtml
Paul Laffoley currently on view at The deCordova Museum in Massachusetts
Paul Laffoley, "The Ultimate Quest," 1968
Oil, acrylic and hand applied vinyl lettering on canvas
50 x 50 inches
Gift of the Estate of Paul Laffoley
More images at decordova.org/coolmedium
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Muntadas: Asian Protocols at 3331 Arts Chiyoda [kr] March 20 – April 17th 3331 Arts Chiyoda presents a major exhibition "Muntadas: Asian Protocols" from March 20th to April 17th. The exhibition title “Asian Protocols” refers to various conventions related to certain official and private matters either in society generally or in people’s personal lives. When used in different situations, the word “protocol” can have a variety of meanings, such as a diplomatic procedure, an agreement and/or a document stipulating such an agreement, a system of customs and rules operating in society, the rules and methods regulating a scientific or artistic field, or the procedural methods and rules governing computer-based telecommunications, etc. These protocols encompass a great variety of procedures, and according to #Muntadas, they have the power to define and control society and to influence it in many kinds of ways. More Information: http://am.3331.jp/index_en.html
Czech Art Brut and More/ Cavin-Morris
210 11th Ave, Ste 201
American Friends of the Louvre
575 Fifth Avenue 18th Floor
Museum of Women's Resistance (MoWRe)
279 Empire Blvd
Geographicus Rare Antique Maps
923 Putnam Ave