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Artist Exhibitions:
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 ...
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Artist Statement for Francine Kohn
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"Paintings that Change Lives": Web: http://afonline.artistsspace.org/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 surfaces produce surprisingly different effects at different viewing distances. These dots and lines, sometimes barely noticeably at first glance, create movement and subtle shifts of light and shadow.
My interest in quantum mechanics and metaphysics are transferred to paint in these intensely focused works. Closer inspection of my luminous, compelling canvases reveal light forms and patterned matrices springing forth from fields of intricately woven, tangles of fascinating color detail - detail of microscopic, cosmic matter. The visual intensity and detail imply infinite space and time. The paintings are original, hypnotic, energetic, and dynamic. Science reaffirmed what metaphysics and religion and the cave art makers knew was true: intention creates reality.
In my art the greatest influences are the action of creation and painting, metaphysics and these artists:
· Vermeer, whose magic turns light into life;
· Kandinsky, who made spirituality an accepted painting genre;
· Van Gogh, for his unique and delightful use of color; and
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