FEATURED ARTIST: Wyatt Kahn 

Wyatt Kahn’s works consist of forms and gaps. He creates his paintings
by fastening together shaped MDF panels covered with raw canvas or
linen. His color paintings feature two “coats” of fabric; he layers
raw canvas or linen over colored canvas on each form. Assembled and
bolted together, the three-dimensional panel-forms visually flatten
out and become the compositional elements of a two-dimensional picture
plane. The gaps between the forms subsequently appear as lines within
a pictorial composition. Kahn’s paintings thoroughly integrate
pictorial space with that of the object. Each shape within the
composition is the shape it is, but it also depicts the shape it is.
Each finished abstract work acts simultaneously as a relief object and
an image.    

Recent solo and two person exhibitions of his work have been featured at T293, Rome; ReMap 4, Athens; and Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York. 

Wyatt Kahn, Fat, 2012. Canvas on panel. 71 x 76 inches. Courtesy of the artist. Photo by Genevieve Hanson.