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KIPNZ is pleased to partner with established and emerging artists to offer limited edition prints:
FRÉDÉRIC TIFFET
Frédéric Tiffet (born 1991) is a process painter. His paintings suggest organic forms and topographies; at times in harmony and at times vibrating in discordance against one another. Over the course of several days he may build an entire system on the canvas, with deep structures and tones that advance and recede within the image. The next morning he will submerge everything in “ice”, but with a transparency that reveals what is underneath. He will repeat the process of laying on glazes, letting them dry, and painting again until he has found the proper “space” of the painting and it has taken on its own presence.
While Tiffet’s work may suggest lineage with abstraction in painting, they are not truly “abstract”: each painting contains a world, a real space that goes deep into the surface. And between them, the paintings form a network of worlds that have mutually shaped each other in the studio. As Tiffet remarked, “If I look at other canvases that are near the one I am working on, they may end up demanding to be transformed all over again. And that is the danger for me: to lose a painting by another that overwhelms it more and more; this is why it is perhaps better to let more embryonic spaces go out into the world, and thus multiply the nuances, so that the apparitions circulate.”
Frédéric Tiffet earned his Bachelor’s degree at Concordia University in Montréal, with a major in painting and drawing and a minor in philosophy. He lives in Montréal with his partner Stéphanie Séguin and their two young daughters.
B. WURTZ
Born 1948 in Pasadena, California, B. Wurtz is best known for his playful and compelling sculptures constructed from discarded materials like produce packaging, construction lumber, and plastic bags. His repurposing of everyday flotsam into joyous, humorous, and beautiful objects undermine grand artistic gesture while elevating the commonplace. The artist’s transformative amalgams of found materials have tended to coalesce around the subjects of “sleeping, eating, and keeping warm”—the foundational human needs named in his 1973 drawing Three Important Things, updated in 2022 with KIPNZ Editions and Garth Greenan Gallery.
Wurtz has been the subject of over 52 solo exhibitions at prestigious venues including: Feature Inc. (1987, 1991, 1992, 2001, 2003, 2006, New York); Gallery 400 (2000, Chicago); White Flag Projects (2012, St. Louis); Kunstverein (2015, Freiburg, Germany); and the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, (2015, Ridgefield, Connecticut).
KEVIN FORD
Kevin Ford is interested in intense looking. Using a combination of brushwork and airbrushing, he blends the languages of Spanish still lifes , symbolism, cartoons, and abstraction to bring a sense of historic urgency to overlooked, everyday objects.
Kevin received his BFA in Painting from Boston University and his MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale. His work has been included in solo exhibitions at 12.26 Gallery, Dallas, TX, Semiose Galerie, Paris, FR, Kate Werble Gallery, New York, NY, Tops Gallery, Memphis, TN, and at MARCH, New York, NY. Kevin's work has been exhibited in group exhibitions at The Center for Maine Contemporary Art, ME, Inman Gallery, TX, Reyes Finn, MI, Casey Kaplan, NY, The Islip Art Museum, NY, Tops Gallery, TN, and elsewhere. His work has been featured in V Magazine, included in the book Artists II, published by Steidl, and has been reviewed in Artforum, The New York Times, and other publications.
DAMIEN DAVIS
Damien Davis (b. 1984) is a Brooklyn-based artist whose work explores historical representations of blackness by unpacking the visual language cultures use to code and decode representations of race. Through design and digital modes of production Davis’ work draws on a vast store of Black iconography to create bold designs that invite viewer engagement.
In these textile works, Davis’ motifs are drawn from the ornamental Blackamoors sculptures ubiquitous throughout Italy. Shapes such as wine grapes, cowrie shells, and oversized lips are rendered by the artist in response to these ornamental objects; an ongoing catalogue of the ways race is coded by and within cultures.
Davis continually explores new ways to produce and present his projects, and has thus far completed bodies of work that employ digitally printed images, laser-cut plexiglass, digital embroidery, and woven tapestries all produced using digital vectors. Through new technology he is able to output his work in ever-changing methods, challenging the notion of drawing as merely a singular medium.
Davis’ work has been exhibited in New York and internationally and has been reviewed by The New York Times, Hyperallergic, The Guardian and Frieze, among others.
Davis was born in Crowley, Louisiana, raised in Phoenix, Arizona, and currently resides in Brooklyn, New York.