"The Key" Carlos Kemm

"The Key" Carlos Kemm.  Dimensional painted collage. 31 1/4" x 56" x 5 1/2". Framed

I believe the collage medium is a largely misunderstood, yet incredible visual tool to stimulate imaginative awakenings. After 36 years I still find the collage medium fresh and innovative. I find its ability to communicate metaphorical language of man’s inner spiritual search ~ limitless.

Allied to visionary and mystical pathways, my work feeds my questing need to make sense of life’s purpose. It is my heartfelt desire to give visual dialogue to those levels beyond personal symbols that will speak of the complexities of modern life in an age of incomprehensible madness.

Having begun my artistic career painting and drawing, in the late 70's I began experimenting with the medium of collage. My early work began with simple, small flat collages. Over time, the technical demands have challenged me to evolve and refine unique techniques to communicate that visual language. Some works have required several years of single-minded effort to bring to completion.

I welcome this opportunity to share the fruits of many years. May your own imagination be sumptuously fed!

"Carlos Quinto Kemm is a contemporary master living and working in Las Vegas (NM), qualitatively on a par with the best contemporary artists in the United States and worldwide" –Fred R. Kline

Awards & Grants:

Artist teaching Residency, Omega Institute, Rhinebeck, NY

"Award of Merit",, "New Mexico '93 Juried Exhibition", Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM

"First Place Award/Two Dimensional Category," "Hispanic Artists Invitational," The Millicent Rogers Museum, Taos, NM

"Purchase Prize", "New Mexico '87 Fine Arts Competition," The Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM

Selected Collections 

 AMoCA (Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art), Roswell, NM

State Capitol Arts Collection, Santa Fe, NM

The Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM

The Albuquerque Museum of Art, Albuquerque, NM

 Examples of my work—may be seen http://www.quintokemm.com/

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