Jenny Kemp works in acrylic on linen over panel, building paintings through the accumulation of hand-painted parallel lines whose color shifts in controlled gradations — generating movement, pressure, and a sense of organic life from what is, at its core, a rigorous formal system. Her source material is biological: cellular structure, botanical form, the visual logic of growth and boundary. Her paintings do not illustrate these systems; they operate according to the same principles, assembling complexity from repetition, precision, and the sustained tension between control and the free hand. Kemp takes the line as a metaphor for both continuum and boundary, building a visual language from patterned linear forms that generate movement within contained structures. The result is work that feels simultaneously inevitable and alive — as if the painting arrived at its own conclusion through a process the painter set in motion but did not fully determine. Kemp received her BS in Art from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her MFA in Painting from the University at Albany. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, with recent solo exhibitions at Duane Thomas Gallery in New York, KennaXu Gallery in Shenzhen, China, in collaboration with Chambers Fine Art, and Gold/Montclair in Montclair, New Jersey. Two-person exhibitions include presentations at Turley Gallery in Hudson, New York, and Transmitter in New York City. Recent group exhibitions include showings at JDJ, McKenzie Fine Art, 5-50 Gallery, and Kenise Barnes Gallery. Her work is included in 100 Painters of Tomorrow, published by Thames and Hudson, and has been featured in New American Paintings, The Huffington Post, Hyperallergic, and Chronogram. She is a 2015 NYFA Fellow in Painting. Kemp lives and works in New York.