Kemar Keanu Wynter

Klaus von Nichtssagend is pleased to present Pairings, Kemar Keanu Wynter’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. For the show, Wynter has created works on paper, made with oil pastel and graphite; each titled after food dishes and installed hanging from aluminum restaurant ticket holders.The works’ compositions are gleaned from the concrete street markers the artist observed on a trip to Havana, Cuba, acting as a formalist system of demarcating a location. Wynter inquisitively employs his recurrent double X form in an ongoing excursion through notions of reminiscence, vernacular and cookery.

"Each of these works is an exercise in cataloguing a life living”

—K.K.W.

Kemar Keanu Wynter (b. 1995 Brooklyn, NY) holds a BFA from the SUNY Purchase School of Art and Design. His work was the focus of a recent solo exhibition titled Portions (Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Queens, 2021) and he has previously exhibited in several group exhibitions including Shining in the Low Tide (Unclebrother, Hancock, 2021), I Saw it Hang Down There (Bode Projects, Berlin, 2021) and Flavor Profile (Border Patrol, Portland, 2019). Wynter is currently on consecutive residencies with the ARoS Kunstmuseum in Aarhus, Denmark and AQB in Budapest, Hungary facilitated by Flux Factory, New York.