Gary kaemmer biography

After working in the Denver commercial art industry for more than 30 years, Gary Kaemmer, BFA ’57, packed his bags and moved to Hope, Idaho, where he’s spent the past decade drawing, painting and sculpting.

Kaemmer had felt there was a lack of respect for artists in the advertising field.

Now that he can create art on his own terms, he hopes to leave something behind—work that might be framed and hung on a wall.

He began to draw at an early age and never doubted where he would end up. “As far as [art] goes, I’m doomed. It’s an obsession,” he says.

Gary Kaemmer - Artist, Sculptor - Bronze Sculpture - Hope, Idaho

“You have to be obsessed or you won’t be any good at it.”

Kaemmer especially enjoys creating representational figurative sculpture, small to life-size, some of which he casts in bronze. He also works with elements like oils, papier-mâché and watercolors, although he does not prefer any particular medium. “Who wants to eat meat and potatoes e Gary Kaemmer’s colorful obsession - University of Denver CISOF