The Kyle Kauffman Gallery is pleased to announce Marlene Dumas: Prints + Multiples running from December 16, 2008 to February 28, 2009. Marlene Dumas: Prints + Multiples is the Kyle Kauffman Gallery’s inaugural show in its new location. After 18 months of exhibitions at our initial 39th street space, we are happy to announce that we are moving to a newly renovated, larger space at 150 West 25th Street in Chelsea, New York’s contemporary art center.

This exhibition represents the most comprehensive survey of Dumas’ prints and editioned works to date. It is planned to run concurrently with Dumas’ retrospective of paintings and drawings at The Museum of Modern Art, Marlene Dumas: Measuring Your Own Grave, running December 14, 2008 to February 16, 2009. On view at the Gallery will be over half of the editions the artist has produced so far. The works range from her earliest prints dating to the early 1980’s to her most recent 2007 work: The Fog of War, a set of 4 images and one accompanying text, the latest in a series of images of dead heads and bodies commenting on the nature of death, loss, identity and war.

Marlene Dumas was born in South Africa, and currently lives and works in Amsterdam. Her work has received wide critical acclaim as well as broad commercial success. Dumas was the first female artist whose work attained the level of $ 1 million at auction, and she currently holds the record for the highest price paid for a work by a living female artist, $6.34 million, sold in July 2008 at Sotheby’s in London. Her work appears in some of the most important international collections – MoMA, the Tate Modern in London, and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. Her paintings, drawings and prints all share a common subject – the human figure. Her subjects range from strippers and prostitutes to babies and children to terrorists and corpses, all captured in her signature painterly style. While her work is figurative and representational – in a contemporary art market that tends more towards the abstract and conceptual – her oeuvre always reflects larger worldly concerns, centering on themes of love and sex, death and war, religion and power, race and gender.