The Last Time We Spoke
Opening Reception: April 5th, 2024, 5-8pm
Two-Person Show
Miriam Omura + John Paul Kesling
Gadsden Museum of Art
Gadsden, Alabama
Opening Reception: April 5th, 2024, 5-8pm
Two-Person Show
Miriam Omura + John Paul Kesling
Gadsden Museum of Art
Gadsden, Alabama
Group Exhibition.
Opening reception: Friday, April 5th, 2024, 8pm
Celebrate 10 years of Brave New Art with a festive evening featuring more than two dozen artists and performers who helped make OZ Arts’ first decade unforgettable.
Selected kinetic sculptures by Alex Lockwood, originally featured at his Shake event in 2015, receive an encore showing in our creative warehouse. Immerse yourself in a sampling of “MAPS – Modular Art Pods,” open-source collaborative art tunnels initiated by circuit-bending legend Tony Youngblood and presented by OZ in 2016. This new mini-installation is curated by Madeleine Hicks and includes pods by Beth Reitmeyer, Marlos E’van, Dycee Wildman, and Youngblood himself.
In conjunction with the 10th Anniversary Bash, OZ will premiere a new visual art exhibit featuring selected artists from the first decade of exhibitions. View paintings by OZ founder Cano Ozgener alongside works by Lauren Gregory, John Paul Kesling, Alex Lockwood, Marcus Maddox, Joseph Patrick, Vadis Turner, and more.
I Will Tell You Mine
Tyger Tyger Gallery
Works on paper group exhibition
Opening Reception: Friday, April 19 from 6 - 8pm
Exhibition Dates: April 19 - May 26, 2024
RIVERVIEW STATION
191 LYMAN STREET SUITE 144
ASHEVILLE, NC 28801
YOON NAM
TARO TAKIZAWA
SUE CRAWFORD
SARABETH NOGGLE
PETEY BROWN
SUZANNE DITTENBER
PETER ROUX
PAUL ACEVEDO GOMEZ
MOLLY SAWYER
MELISSA MOTE GLOSUP
LAURA SNYDER
KIMMY TOLBERT
KAYSHA SIEMENS
ERIN NEEL NEWTON
JOHN PAUL KESLING
JESSIE SHINN
JANE TINGLE BRODERICK
JACQUELYN STRYCKER
GABRIELLE ROSHELLI
ERIN KEANE
DANIELLE RANTE
CHRISTOPHER BURK
BOB BARNETT
ANNA PIETRZAK
AMY SACKSTEDER
NAVI NAISANG
MELANIE NORRIS
Ground Floor Contemporary
Group Exhibition
Opening Reception: April 6th, 2024
Volunteer State Community College
Gallatin, TN
Guest Curated by Lain York, Gallery Director, Zeitgeist (Nashville, TN)
Group Exhibition
This exhibition round includes works provided by Ground Floor Contemporary which will be on view in the North Floor Gallery from October 4 – November 19, 2023. Lowe Mill A&E invites patrons and art lovers to join us for Open Studio Night, a building-wide experience when our over 150 studios will be open to the public. The evening also includes receptions for all seven of our gallery spaces. This series gives the public a chance to meet and interact with visiting artists and discuss their work as it is on display and available for purchase. Come out, enjoy a pleasant evening, and maybe you’ll find that special piece of art that speaks to you! The Open Studio Night reception is Saturday, November 19 from 5-7 pm.
About the exhibit:
Make —> Forward asks us to define where we would like to go, but it necessitates knowing where we are now and where we have been. This scope can be individual, or infinitely collective. The tension of the present, informed by the past and influenced by the future speaks to the human challenge of simple existence. Make is the action that weaves this trichotomy into a unity that creates space for healing and decisiveness. These works all engage with this trichotomy in some fashion—some swim into the murky past, others raise their eyes towards the lofty future, and still others ground themselves in the earthy present.
To make is an act of process; it necessitates the dialogue with the generative, creative force in even the smallest, most mundane of actions. To make is to conjoin and weave together disparate ideas and objects into dialogue; it creates order, it creates unity. Conversely, to make can also mean to disassemble, to dissect, to fracture, to reduce to individual parts. This is the spirit in which our works for Make —> Forward come together.
The arrow, as an extension of the eye, articulates our fundamental experience as conscious beings—it communicates what is most important to us. The arrow communicates what we aspire to, what we currently ruminate on. It means that in the act of making, we are moving forward. It is an indication of value. “Here! Let us move this way—let us push a path from here to there.” It speaks of causality—to make is to move forward in time, in space, or in the psyche.
Within these infinitely broad but infinitesimally personal scopes, we have assembled Make —> Forward. These pieces ask the viewer to consider how they also Make —> Forward, whether externally or internally. Life is beautiful even when it looks a mess. If you are open to hope, you can find it in the changing of the seasons, in the nod of a passerby, or in a perfectly round squirt of ketchup next to your fries.
Ground Floor Contemporary (GFC) is an artist-run, artist-supported cooperative gallery started in 2016.
Art Of Resilience
Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery
Cohen Memorial Building
Group Exhibition
Opening Reception 09/23/23
Celebrating Ten Years
Ash Atterberry + Wayne White + Samuel Dunson + Josh Black + Noah Saterstrom + Louisa Glenn + Kevin Guthrie + Jon Langford + Brett Douglas Hunter + Nuveen Barwari + Delia Seigenthaler + Brooke Gillon + Elizabeth Williams + Becca Jane Koehler + John Paul Kesling + R. Ellis Orrall + Benjy Russell + Josh Elrod + Alex Lockwood + Rachel Briggs + Jodi Hays + Beizer Abdi + Harry Underwood + Dan Melchior + Megan Kimber + Emily Holt + Andrew Combs + Julia Martin
It is official… It has been a decade, and we are celebrating with nearly thirty of our favorite artists, bringing you a truly epic anniversary exhibition, including an 8 foot Wayne White puppet show!? I know, I can’t believe it either… much less ten years.
To kick it up even more we’re shutting down the street and invite you to settle in for a little festival of music featuring William Tyler, HR Lexy, Username Password, Styrofoam Winos, BCKHND, Dim Watts… so bring your favorite chair or blanket and settle in. We kick off around 3:00. Our Martin brethren over at Martin’s BBQ are setting us up with the most delicious BBQ and fixins in the world, Bearded Iris Brewing is hooking up the Homestyle, We’re whipping up some extra special custom merch, and I’m sure I’m forgetting something, but you know we’ll have plenty of champagne! All we require is your beautiful presence.
We cannot wait to celebrate with you and show our gratitude for all your support over the last ten years. Thank you, we love you. -JM
Opening Celebration: September 2nd, 3:00 - 9:00pm
Show Dates: September 2nd - October 28th, 2023
MOCAN (Museum of Contemporary Art Nashville)
Merritt Mansion, Nashville, TN
Group Exhibition
This was the second of a series of pop-up contemporary art exhibitions designed to engage the community, build awareness, and demonstrate the market need for a permanent contemporary art museum in Nashville. 'Up in Arms' was co-curated by Evan Brown and Clarence Edward and took place at the Historic Merritt Mansion in Wedgewood Houston.
Featured local and national artists include: Alex Lockwood, Andrés Bustamante, Andrew Morrison, Bill Nickels, Chrimmons, Donald Lipski, Edie Ottestad, Elise Drake & Thew Jones, Herb Williams, John Paul Kesling, K. Baergen, Lance Scruggs, Lanie Gannon, LeXander Bryant, Rima Day, Sarah Sudhoff, Sharon J. Harms, and Trixie Pitts.
New York City
CURATOR
Victoria Gildersleeve
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Inspired by the spirited energy that defines the changing seasons, And We’re Back! is a representation of how the city springs to life after months of contemplative gray. Vibrant and verdant, the atmosphere feels a little lighter, our lives more effervescent. And in this energizing curation, vivid colors create an energy and vitality that lovingly celebrate this cherished time of year.
Brief Encounter
Three-person show at Ground Floor Contemporary, Birmingham, Alabama.
John Paul Kesling, Misty Bennett, Sarah West
May 6th - May 20th, 2023
London Paint Club
Group Show
Online and in print.
March 15th-April 15th, 2023
Bobby Hotel
January 8th, 2023 - March 31st, 2023
Opening Reception : Thursday, January 12th, 2023
A group exhibition about flowers.
Curated by Joshua Edward Bennett in collaboration with Tinney Contemporary, Nashville, TN.
NYC Crit Club Winter 2023 Plum Lime Residency Finalists Exhibition
Curated by MEPAINTSME.
Online
Online group show
https://www.florencecontemporary.com/nowadays
Savannah College of Art and Design
Small Works Exhibition
Gutstein Gallery
Online
I Like Your Work Podcast Winter 2022 Group Exhibition
Curated by Eric Hibit (co-director of Ortega Y Gasset Projects)
https://www.ilikeyourworkpodcast.com/online-exhibition
Group show in celebration of Pride Month!
June 2nd - July 31st, 2022
Opening Night: June 4th, 2022
Culture Lab LIC at the Plaxall Gallery
5-25 46th Avenue, Long Island City, NY 11101
Group Exhibition marking The Red Arrow’s 8 year Anniversary.
Featuring 24 Red Arrow Artists.
Opening Reception: Thursday, March 3rd, 2022, 6-8pm
Nashville Parthenon
2500 West End Ave, Nashville, TN 37203
Red Arrow Gallery Presents:
A Solo Online Exhibition Of New Paintings.
Online only.
Opens February 25th, 2022.
Solo Exhibition
Wheelhouse Art
2650 Frankfort Ave., Louisville, KY 40206
January 28th-March 12th, 2022
Opening reception: Friday, January 28th, 2022, 6-8pm
Rise
To rise is to elevate, to levitate, to ascend and grow. As artists—and as humans—we desire growth, to rise again and again. And rising can feel good, but by no means is it easy. We often rise in order to depart from a place that we desire to get out of, whether it be a situation, a state of mind, or a physical place. This process requires us to take action and overcome—and we’ve had a lot to overcome recently. Some may have to rise up and overcome fear and doubt in order to create their artwork, while others may use their art as a way to work through things internally, building themselves up in the process.
For this virtual exhibition, artists have created works that relish in the satisfaction of overcoming, that sit with the emotions of this process, and explore what it often takes to get there.
By Christina Nafziger
Curated by Hilary Doyle.
On September 3 we will be opening our incredible fall exhibition and release brings our first episode of Season 4! Meet up with us at Piano Craft Gallery in SoWa Boston where we will have amazing art, drinks, music, I Like Your Work catalogs and more! We would love to see you there!
The opening is from 6-8 PM and Erika B. Hess, the Host and Founder of I Like Your Work will be giving a talk about the show and about community at 5:45!
Opening reception: 5:45pm-8:00pm
Piano Craft Gallery Boston,
793 Tremont St, Boston, MA 02118, USA
Flat Rate Contemporary Open Call 10
(online only)
https://flatratecontemporary.com/
August 15th-September 15th
Group Show: Galactic Panther
E.S.P.
1303 KING ST. OLD TOWN
Alexandria, VA
I Like Your Work Podcast
Curated by Catherine Haggerty
Kesling’s painting “Girl With Dog” was selected to be included in this online show and accompanying catalogue.
The Red Arrow Gallery
This is Kesling’s second solo exhibition at The Red Arrow Gallery.
Opening Reception: May 1st, 2021
6-9pm
Wassau Museum of Contemporary Art
Juror David Hummer, Director of the WMOCA
Kesling’s “Van Hunt” portrait was accepted into this in-person portrait show.
Kesling’s “Long-Neck Meg” portrait was accepted for this week-long event in Lake City, SC.
Annual National Juried Show 2020,July 7-25 2020 held at Prince Street Gallery . For artists working in 2 dimensional mediums of painting, drawing, printmaking, collage and mixed media only. Susan Lichtman is the juror
EDIT: Covid-19 reschedule. Online July 1st-31st, 2020. Possible brick-and-mortar show in December 2020.
Online Auction
Space 776 Brooklyn, NY
hosting via Liveauctioneers.com
Lot 776 BROOKLYN : 2020 Spring Contemporary Art Auction
Bidding: March 31st, 2020, 7pm CDT
https://www.liveauctioneers.com/catalog/161903_2020-spring-contemporary-art-sale/
JPK will have (5) works available.
PONY DADDY
Solo show at Tim Faulkner Gallery (Louisville, KY).
Opening reception: Friday, February 7th, 2020, 6pm-11:30pm
FieldDaze Monthly Pop-Up Show
Opening event: 12/15/19, 3pm-9pm