Arnold J. Kemp

More recently, he was chair of the MFA in Visual Studies at Pacific Northwest College of Art PNCA in Portland, Oregon.

He also served as Painting and Printmaking Chair & Associate Professor at the School of the Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University.

[1] Currently he is Dean of Graduate studies at School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Professor of Painting and Drawing.

Their depths appear to collapse time and space, imbuing the works with an indescribable sense of traumatic duration.

In this form, they fill their frames such that the only edges we see become dark orifices, signaling that we are in the presence of an object with an unspecified relation to a body, or disembodied spirit.