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Artist Statement:
"Paintings that Change Lives":
Web: href="http://local-artists.org/
users/francine-kohn">http://loc
al-artists.org/users/francine-k
ohn
E-mail: francine underscore
kohn at yahoo.
Color and painting are my
first love, my first language.
My passion for painting is
coupled with a curiosity and
an intense drive to discover
new realities and to reveal
discovered truths as energy
patterns on canvas. I create
art that shapes consciousness.
My work is not about
something, it is something.
The paintings reaffirm the
magic and the power of art to
influence perception and
understanding. These dynamic
and compelling paintings
create a symphony of wholeness
which invite you to become one
with the cosmos.
Images can expand
understanding and move people.
My surfaces of shimmering
translucency with sculptural
presence weave a magic through
acrylic and oil glazes and
painterly techniques which
couch the impact of the work.
While some paintings show a
fluidity of brilliant colors
which reveal a methodical flow
of paint, structured by lines
and building patterns of
shifting forms, others build
and build on the impastoed
surfaces until an amazing
amount of tension is reached
between the surface, scale and
implied space. The shimmering
pointillist surfaces...
Further Information
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Artist Reviews:
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Collections:
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Commissions:
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Exhibitions for Francine Kohn:
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2012, Bluestone Fine Art Gallery, “Group Show”, Philadelphia, PA
2009, Beringer, Wine, Art & Cheese Show, St. Helena, CA
2008, Mumm Napa, “Group Show”, St. Helena, CA
2006 ASUC Art Gallery, "Pins & Needles", UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
2006-2004 Visual AIDS, 7th & 8th Annual "Postcards From the Edge Benefit", New York, NY
2005 Gallery One, "Opening Show", San Francisco, CA
2003 Falkirk Cultural Center,"Abstraction '03 Group Show", San Rafael, CA
2001 Palm Springs Desert Museum, Artists Council 32nd Annual National Juried Show, Juror:Ann Philbin, Director of the UCLA/Hammer Museum, Palm Springs, CA
2001 Falkirk Cultural Center, Annual Juried Exhibition of Marin Artists, Juror: Ruth Braunstein of Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Rafael, CA
2001 Arts Council of San Mateo County,
Manor House, "Revealing the Unseen", Belmont, CA (solo)[July 2-30)
2001 The Artists Space Gallery*, "Passion for Life", Monroe, WA (September 1-30)
March - May 1999 Acme, San Francisco, CA (solo)
May - June 1997 New Leaf, Larkspur, CA (solo)
August 1996 - May 2001 Autodesk Executive Briefing Center, San Rafael, CA
February - March 1995 Cosumnes River College, El Dorado Center Library, Placerville, CA (solo)
October - November 1994 Varitel Video, One Union Street, San Francisco (solo)
September - November 1992, Brenda's Gallery, "Bringing the Future to Life", San Francisco, CA
October - November 1991, The Michael Thompson Gallery,Group Show,
San Francisco, CA
March 1991 Breakout Art Gallery, Group Show, Sonoma, CA
May 1990 Marin Community Foundation,Larkspur, CA
May 1982 Fort Mason, Group Show, San Francisco, CA
May 1981 Central California Art League, 28th Annual Spring Show, Modesto, CA
Online Exhibitions:
February - March 2000
Living Arts Gallery
"Edge of My Subconscious" http://www.livingartistgallery.com
Ongoing:
Art Future http://www.artfuture.com/Mystic.html
Art Network
http://www.art4net.com/
Art Seek http://www.artseek.com/medias/oils/K.html
Art Site Guide
http://www artsiteguide.com
Artstar.com http://www.artstar.com/
Digital Consciousness http://digitalconsciousness.com/artists/kohn/index.html
James Baird Online Gallery: http://www.jamesbaird.com/
Find Me An Artist
http://www.findmeanartist.com
Art Is Life com, Inc. http://www.ArtIsLife.com
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