Kent Fine Art is an art gallery in New York City founded in 1985 by Douglas Walla.
Kent Fine Art was incorporated in 1985 and opened its first location at the corner of Madison & 57th Street in the Fuller Building, New York. Since this first location in midtown, the gallery has maintained galleries in Soho, and presently in Chelsea on 25th Street.
With a keen interest in contexualizing it’s artists and exhibitions, Kent has maintained a rigorous program of research, archiving and publishing. Artists and exhibitions presented have ranged from Surrealism, Symbolism and Dada, to more current artists of conscience, and institutional critique as well as conceptual rigor. Kent Fine Art attempts to provide economic value to collectors by providing thoughtful basis regarding decisions about art rather than financial engineering or gaming the system.
Dennis Adams, John Brill, Llyn Foulkes, Pablo Helguera, Paul Laffoley, Irving Petlin, Dorothea Tanning, Judith Shea, Antoni Muntadas, Kyle Staver, Yulia Pinkusevich, and Annette Lemieux
Yulia Pinkusevich: The Recollections of Stones Unturned
Kyle Staver
Paul Laffoley: The Force Structure of the Mystical Experience
Dennis Adams: In the Red/Walking on Wolves
Varujan Boghosian: Master Bricoleur
The Still Open Case of Irving Petlin
Judith Shea
Pablo Helguera: Strange Oasis
Annette Lemieux: Everybody wants to be a catchy tune
John Brill: Every Boy’s Dream
Muntadas: Eleven
Publications and exhibition catalogues
ALTERED STATES curated by Rosetta Brooks and selected texts (1989)
AMERICAN MYTHS (1987)
ARTSCHWAGER/SHAPIRO/BYARS (1988)
ASSEMBLAGE (1987)
DENNIS ADAMS: THE ARCHITECTURE OF AMNESIA text by Mary Anne Staniszewski (1989)
DENNIS ADAMS: DOUBLE FEATURE (2008)
DENNIS ADAMS: MALRAUX’S SHOES (2012)
HERBERT BAYER: BAUHAUS AND BEYOND text by D K Walla
VARUJAN BOGHOSIAN: BASTER BRICOLEUR text notes by Katrina Neumann (2015)
THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF JOHN BRILL text by Leah Ollman
EUGENE CARRIERE: THE SYMBOL OF CREATION text by Robert Rosenblum & Robert Bantens (1989)
MIKE COCKRILL: AWAKENING text by Anthon Hayden-Guest (2011)
MIKE COCKRILL: EXISTENTIAL MAN (2013)
MATTHEW CUSICK: THE MAP PAINTINGS (2004)
ENTRE ET CHIEN ET LOUP curated by D.K. Walla (2008)
LEANDRO ERLICH: TURISMO with Judy Werthein
HEIDE FASNACHT: DRAWN TO SUBLIME text by Nancy Princenthal
HEIDE FASNACHT: LOOT (2012)
FICTIONS curated and text by Douglas Blau (1987)
IMPORTANT AFRICAN & MODERN MASTERWORKS (1992)
LLYN FOULKES: THE SIXTIES text by Peter Selz (1987)
LLYN FOULKES: SCRAPBOOK 1957 – 2005 (2007)
LLYN FOULKES: BLOODY HEADS (2011)
JULIO GONALEZ: DRAWN FROM THE STUDIO 1876-1942 (2007)
JOHN HEARTFIELD: AIZ/VI 1930-1938 text by David Evans (1992)
JERRY KEARNS: RISKY BUSINESS text by Lucy R. Lippard (1987)
PAUL LAFFOLEY: THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF REVELATION (1989)
PAUL LAFFOLEY: THE BOSTON VISIONARY CELL (2013)
PAUL LAFFOLEY: PREMONITIONS OF THE BAUHAROQUE with the Henry Art Gallery (2013)
PAUL LAFFOLEY: TIME PHASE X (2005)
PAUL LAFFOLEY: THE FORCE STRUCTURE OF THE MYSTICAL EXPERIENCE (2015)
THE ESSENTIAL PAUL LAFFOLEY with the University of Chicago Press (2016)
MIND THE GAP curated by D.K. Walla (2012)
HENRY MOORE: FROM MODEL TO MONUMENT (1987)
BEVERLY McIVER: INVISIBLE ME text by Irving Sandler
METAPHOR: STOUT,TUTTLE, WENTWORTH, KNOWLTON curated by Susan Harris (1987)
MUNTADAS: ELEVEN (2012)
OF ABSENCE AND PRESENCE curated by D. K. Walla (1987)
MERET OPPENHEIM text by Bice Curiger (1988)
PASTE UP (1995)
IRVING PETLIN: WEISSWALD text by Edward Fry (1987)
IRVING PETLIN: PASTELS 1961-1987 text by Paul Cummings (1990)
IRVING PETLIN: AN ARTIST OF CONSCIENCE (2009)
FRANCIS PICABIA: ACCOMODATIONS OF DESIRE text by Sarah Wilson (1988)
RICHARD PRINCE: INSIDE WORLD curated by Thea Westreich (1989)
REALITY REMADE curated by D. K. Walla (1986)
REVISITING HISTORIES text notes by J M Wasilik (2014)
MEDARDO ROSSO: IMPRESSIONS IN WAX AND BRONZE text by Luciano Caramel (1988)
JUDITH SHEA photo essay by Elyse Harary text notes by J M Wasilik (2014)
MYRON STOUT with Richard Bellamy (1990)
DOROTHEA TANNING: ON PAPER text by Donald Kuspit (1987)
DOROTHEA TANNING: ELEVEN PAINTINGS text by Pontius Hulten (1988)
DOROTHEA TANNING: INSOMNIAS 1954-1965 text by Charles Stuckey (2005)
DOROTHEA TANNING AND FRIENDS curated with Tanning (2009)
THE TIMES, THE CHRONICLE & THE OBSERVER curated by Douglas Blau (1990)
VISIONARIES curated by D. K. Walla with photo essay by David Finn (1987)
