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Artist Statement:
"Paintings that Change Lives": Web: href=http://afonline.artistsspa ce.org/view_artist.php?aid=936" >http://afonline.artistsspace.o rg/view_artist.php?aid=936
E-mail: francine_kohn@yahoo.com or
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...
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Exhibitions for Francine Kohn:
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California & Washington Exhibitions:
2001 Falkirk Cultural Center, Annual Juried Exhibition of Marin Artists, Juror:
Ruth Braunstein of Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Rafael, CA
2001 Palm Springs Desert Museum, Artists Council 32nd Annual National Juried Show, Juror:Ann Philbin, Director of the UCLA/Hammer, Palm Springs, 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 (solo)
May - June 1997 New Leaf, Larkspur (solo)
August 1996 - May 2001 Autodesk Executive Briefing Center, San Rafael
February - March 1995 Cosumnes River College, El Dorado Center Library,
Placerville (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
October - November 1991
The Michael Thompson Gallery,Group Show,
San Francisco
March 1991 Breakout Art Gallery, Group Show,
Sonoma
May 1990 Marin Community Foundation,Larkspur
May 1982 Fort Mason, Group Show,San Francisco
May 1981 Central California Art League, 28th Annual Spring Show, Modesto
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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