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Celebrate the opening of the artist's first museum retrospective exhibition.

Virginia Jaramillo: Principle of Equivalence Opening Celebration

Join the artist to celebrate Virginia Jaramillo: Principle of Equivalence, the first comprehensive exhibition that looks at the nearly seven-decades-long career of Virginia Jaramillo. At 6 p.m., Jaramillo will join Director of Curatorial Affairs Erin Dziedzic for a public conversation on the exhibition and her practice. 

This summer, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art will present the first exhibition by New York-based artist Virginia Jaramillo (Mexican American, born 1939) that traces the breadth of her nearly 60-year career. Jaramillo has been at the heart of influential movements in American post-war abstraction for decades. She was born in El Paso, TX, raised in Los Angeles, CA, and moved in New York City in the 1966 after a year in Paris. When she settled in Soho at 109 Spring Street in the late-1960s, Jaramillo’s neighbors were artists Frederick James Brown, Mark di Suvero, Donald Judd, and Joan Semmel, alongside other influential New York artists, musicians, and writers.

Throughout her career, Jaramillo has explored earthly and metaphysical realms through abstract paintings and handmade paper works with such diverse interests as physics, the cosmos, mythology, ancient cultures, and modernist design philosophies. This exhibition presents more than 70 exceptional paintings and handmade paper works, including her breakthrough Curvilinear series and large-scale linen fiber work, Anonymous Site #1-603 (1990) from Kemper Museum’s Permanent Collection.
She has been exhibiting her work in Kansas City since the 1970s. 

The significance of Jaramillo’s work has been affirmed in recent groundbreaking group exhibitions including Now Dig This!: Art and Black Los Angeles 1960–1980 (Hammer Museum, 2011); We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85 (Brooklyn Museum, 2017); and Women in Abstraction (Centre Pompidou, 2021); yet there has not been a comprehensive presentation of the 84-year-old artist’s practice and impact before Principle of Equivalence.

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Image Credit: Virginia Jaramillo in front of Quanta, 2022. Courtesy Virginia Jaramillo and Hales, London and New York. Photo by JSP Art Photography.

5:00 p.m. Bar Opens
6:00 p.m. Virginia Jaramillo in Conversation with Erin Dziedzic
7:00 p.m. Opening Reception

Virginia Jaramillo: Principle of Equivalence

Public programs are always FREE for everyone, thanks to support from members and other donors. Join today to support free access to contemporary art. 

Time	5:00 p.m. Bar Opens
	6:00 p.m. Virginia Jaramillo in Conversation with Erin Dziedzic