# Event Details - **Event Name**: "Arnold J. Kemp: Not One Thing" Community Reception - **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 24 Sep, 2026 at 06:00 pm – Thu, 24 Sep, 2026 at 08:00 pm (-04:00) - **Event Description**: Join us to celebrate "Arnold J. Kemp: Not One Thing" with a community-wide reception!About this EventArnold J. Kemp: Not One Thing is the first institutional survey of work by the Chicago-based artist Arnold J. Kemp (b. 1968, Boston). The exhibition focuses on Kemp’s performative and material traditions of masking, traced throughout his sculpture, painting, printmaking, photography, and plays. Critically, the artist refuses the singularity of essentialized identities, instead grappling with legacies of conceptualism, Black and diasporic experiences, queer relationalities, and resistive modes of being.Arnold J. Kemp: Not One Thing is organized by Interim co-Director and Chief Curator Laurel V. McLaughlin with research support from TUAG Curatorial Interns Avery Davis (BA/BFA ’26), Jordan Hoban (MFA ’27), and Rylan Nguyen (BA/BFA ’26).Arnold J. Kemp (American, b. 1968 in Boston) lives and works in Chicago. Recent exhibitions of the artist’s work include To Whom Keeps A Record (2024) at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, ME; Arnold J. Kemp: Three Plays (2024), Human Resources, Los Angeles; Stage (2023), Martos Gallery, New York; Less Like an Object and More Like the Weather (2022), The Neubauer Collegium, University of Chicago; False Hydras (2021), JOAN, Los Angeles; and I Could Survive, I Would Survive, I Should Survive (2021), Manetti Shrem Art Museum, the University of California, Davis. Kemp’s works are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, the Portland Art Museum, the Schneider Museum of Art, the Tacoma Art Museum, The Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, and the Hammer Art Museum. He has received awards from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, Ellis-Beauregard Foundation, the Joan Mitchell Foundation, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, and an Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant in 2021.Professor Kemp teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2024, he was the Holt Visiting Artist in the Department of Art and Art History at Stanford University. He also holds an MFA (2025) from Stanford University.Image: Arnold J. Kemp, Mr. Kemp: Yellowing, Drying, Scorching, 2020. Courtesy the artist and Martos Gallery, New York. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/medford/arnold-j-kemp-not-one-thing-community-reception/100001988561898168 - **Event Categories**: art, fine-arts, exhibitions, literary-art, entertainment - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 - **Event Highlights**: - Duration: 2 hours - Location: Aidekman Arts Center - Languages: English ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Medford - **state**: MA - **country**: United States - **location**: Aidekman Arts Center - **lat**: 42.4044944 - **long**: -71.11917249999999 - **full address**: Aidekman Arts Center, 40 Talbot Avenue, Medford, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: "Arnold J. Kemp: Not One Thing" Community Reception - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events6/banners/9a29f8ca123447d699eb4bdea8064111241e765a578e87ce8219e6b6768debed-rimg-w1200-h703-dcd7d8d7-gmir.jpg?v=1777770131 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is "Arnold J. Kemp: Not One Thing" Community Reception being held? - **A:** "Arnold J. Kemp: Not One Thing" Community Reception takes place on Thu, 24 Sep, 2026 at 06:00 pm to Thu, 24 Sep, 2026 at 08:00 pm at Aidekman Arts Center, 40 Talbot Avenue, Medford, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing "Arnold J. Kemp: Not One Thing" Community Reception? - **A:** "Arnold J. Kemp: Not One Thing" Community Reception is organized by Tufts University Art Galleries. - **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me? - **A:** "Arnold J. Kemp: Not One Thing" Community Reception is ideal for art lovers, trade professionals, collectors, and exhibition enthusiasts exploring the latest in their field. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Medford, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. If "Arnold J. Kemp: Not One Thing" Community Reception sounds like your kind of event, don't wait - spots fill up fast. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": ""Arnold J. 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