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Title of Piece: Transcendent Veil - detail
Date of Creation: in progress
Location: St. Anne Catholic Church, Pleasant Prairie, WI
Brief Description: This window is meant to draw the viewer into a state of transcendence, the window depicts one phase of a liturgical journey narrated within the architecture of the sanctuary. Phase I was installed October 2004. 24’ x 56’. Blown glass, leaded.
Artist Info: Guy Kemper, Versailles, KY
Photographer Info: Guy Kemper, Versailles, KY

Title of Piece: Rise
Date of Creation: 2005
Location: The Catholic Memorial at Ground Zero, St. Joseph’s Chapel, NY, NY
Brief Description: This blown glass and laminated window suggests a flower growing from the ashes of its destruction. Architecturally, the window resolves two difficult issues: the low ceiling, and uniting the disparate window openings around the main entrance.
Artist Info: Guy Kemper, Versailles, KY
Photographer Info: Guy Kemper, Versailles, KY

Title of Piece: Rise - detail
Date of Creation: 2005
Location: The Catholic Memorial at Ground Zero, St. Joseph’s Chapel, NY, NY
Brief Description: This blown glass and laminated window suggests a flower growing from the ashes of its destruction. Architecturally, the window resolves two difficult issues: the low ceiling, and uniting the disparate window openings around the main entrance.
Artist Info: Guy Kemper, Versailles, KY
Photographer Info: Guy Kemper, Versailles, KY

Title of Piece: Head of Christ - detail of a Passion Window
Date of Creation: 2007
Location: Passionist Community of Chicago, IL
Brief Description: This Passion window measures 51” by 44”. It is made of blown glass and is leaded.
Artist Info: Guy Kemper, Versailles, KY
Photographer Info: Guy Kemper, Versailles, KY

Title of Piece: Hallway transoms
Date of Creation: 2002
Location: Congregation of St Agnes, Fond du Lac, WI.
Brief Description: These windows in the hallway to the chapel are an invitation into the chapel.
Artist Info: Guy Kemper, Versailles, KY
Photographer Info: Guy Kemper, Versailles, KY

Title of Piece: "Sources" - North west view of the chapel windows
Date of Creation: 2002
Location: Congregation of St Agnes, Fond du Lac, WI.
Brief Description: This small circular chapel is built over the springs that brought the pioneering sisters to Fond du Lac to build their convent in the mid-19th century. The windows, called "Sources" measure 21’ x 9 ½’and are made of Blown glass.
Artist Info: Guy Kemper, Versailles, KY
Photographer Info: Guy Kemper, Versailles, KY

Title of Piece: Resurrection Window
Date of Creation: 2001
Location: Our Lady in the Woods Chapel, Bellarmine University, Louisville, KY
Brief Description: This blown glass, leaded window (6‘ x 17‘) responds to the theme, the architecture, and the exterior as well. A thrusting Heavenward with tension and release.
Artist Info: Guy Kemper, Versailles, KY
Photographer Info: Guy Kemper, Versailles, KY

Title of Piece: Heaven Window
Date of Creation: 2001
Location: Our Lady in the Woods Chapel, Bellarmine University, Louisville, KY
Brief Description: This blown glass and leaded window is architecturally remote and visually impossible to see in its entirety, hence its theme and composition.
Architect Info: Guy Kemper, Versailles, KY
Photographer Info: Guy Kemper, Versailles, KY

Title of Piece: Into the Sun
Date of Creation: 2005
Location: Village cemetery chapel, Engenhahn, Germany
Brief Description: Into the Sun is created with blown glass which was laminated in three layers. The leaded crystal prisms cast rainbows onto the walls and casket during morning services.
Artist Info: Guy Kemper, Versailles, KY
Photographer Info: Guy Kemper, Versailles, KY

Title of Piece: Into the Sun - detail
Date of Creation: 2005
Location: Village cemetery chapel, Engenhahn, Germany
Brief Description: "Into the Sun" is made of blown glass which was laminated in three layers. This shows the richness of the etched blown glass. The leaded crystal prisms cast rainbows onto the walls and casket during morning services.
Artist Info: Guy Kemper, Versailles, Ky
Photographer Info: Guy Kemper, Versailles, Ky

Title of Piece: Chaos and Order Window
Date of Creation: 2008
Location: St. Peter auf dem Berg, Bleidenstadt, Germany
Brief Description: This 53“ x 124“ window called "Chaos and Order" showa the chaotic earth below, and the Heavenly Order above. The red path full of twists and turns winds its way up, casting rainbows from its prisms onto the opposite wall. These tie in with the theme of the adjacent window, Noah’s Ark, done by another artist
Artist Info: Guy Kemper, Versailles, KY
Photographer Info: Guy Kemper, Versailles, KY

Title of Piece: Bleidenstadt window - detail
Date of Creation: 2008
Location: St. Peter auf dem Berg, Bleidenstadt, Germany
Brief Description: Detail of the border with prims which cast rainbows onto the opposite wall.
Artist Info: Guy Kemper, Versailles, KY
Photographer Info: Guy Kemper, Versailles, KY

Title of Piece: Light reflections
Date of Creation: 2008
Location: St. Peter auf dem Berg, Bleidenstadt, Germany
Brief Description: The chaotic earth is below, the Heavenly Order above, and the red path full of twists and turns winds its way up, casting rainbows from its prisms onto the opposite wall. These tie in with the theme of the adjacent window, Noah’s Ark, done by another artist.
Artist Info: Guy Kemper, Versailles, KY
Photographer Info: Guy Kemper, Versailles, KY

Title of Piece: Rose Window
Date of Creation: 2007
Location: St. Mary’s Catholic Church, Richmond, VA
Brief Description: This window, which is one of several gothic rose windows done for this new church is 68” diameter.
Artist Info: Guy Kemper, Versailles, KY
Photographer Info: Guy Kemper, Versailles, KY