Five on the First

June 2025
Jenny Kemp

“I explore the possibilities of abstraction in painting through a personal logic that balances fluidity and structure via chromatic and patterned relationships. Operating within a visual language that emerges from motifs formed through tensions such as warm and cool, soft and sharp, floral and grid-like, I aim to mimic a sensation of stillness in motion, evoking various states of embodiment, memory, and mood.

Compositions begin with a revelatory moment, a gesture that encourages an echo, which in turn unfolds a charted course of traversing and shifting movement through subtle hue progressions. In the act of their assembly, biomorphic and geometric connotations allude to forms such as microscopic and anatomical shapes, ornamental patterns, and animated motion. These references bring a symbolic presence which can touch on connections to feminine, mythic and art historical associations. However, a liminal state of ambiguity persists, resisting fixed identities and opting for a morphology of continual transformation.”

CV