October 21: PNCA Radio: What Can Make Portland A Good City For Emerging Artists?
From Modou Dieng of Worksound
(Pipeline interview & photo shoot here):
Plug-in to listen to Open Air our Talk Show
Wednesday October 21 at 4pm !
http://radio.pnca.edu/
I will be conversing with my Guest Arnold J Kemp About :
What Can Make Portland A Good City For Emerging Artists?
Art Spaces or Critical Voices or good press or/and Art Schools ?
Arnold Kemp is the new appointed Chair of the Master's of Fine Arts in Visual Studies program at PNCA
a Brooklyn-based artist, curator, writer, and educator, the core of Kemp's professional career lies with his 10-year post as Associate Visual Arts Curator at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco. At Yerba Buena, he curated solo exhibitions for prominent artists including Laylah Ali, Ellen Gallagher and Fred Wilson, as well as the renowned Bay Area Now series.
In addition to his curatorial and administrative experience, Kemp is an established artist with an MFA from Stanford University and has been a teacher and mentor to graduates at such schools as California College of the Arts, San Francisco; School of the Visual Arts, New York ; and Stanford University.
Arnold Solo show "This Quiet Dust, Ladies and Gentlemen" Opening on November 3 through November 28, 2009 at PDX Contemporary Art
it is an installation of his newest works.It will feature several paintings made with black glitter, black paint and doll's eyes on modestly sized linen supports as well as several photographic prints keyed to the tones of graphic drawings. The work carries something of the darker sides of nature while also harkening to Kemp's personal biography as a black man.
