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Arnold Joseph Kemp: I would survive. I could survive. I should survive.

Arnold Joseph Kemp:
I would survive. I could survive. I should survive.

June 3–November 12, 2021
Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art
UC Davis

The exhibition’s title, taken from a snapshot of a note in the artist’s studio, references interdisciplinary artist Arnold J. Kemp’s unflinching commitment to a politics embedded within a language of abstraction. His work asks us to consider the sensorial gestures that form the self and a people, the personal and the political, the historical and the present. Kemp stages encounters that invite the viewer into the artist’s aesthetic considerations of himself and the world that makes him. It is within this space that we are able to join him in considering how we are made and how we make ourselves.

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• Arnold Joseph Kemp: I would survive. I could survive. I should survive.