NYAB Event - Cecily Kahn "Balancing Acts"

Cecily Kahn "Balancing Acts"

Able Fine Art NY Gallery

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As a daughter and granddaughter of artists, Cecily Kahn produces abstract paintings that reflect her individual vision and a developed and inherent sense of contemporary precedent. Her tradition of abstraction is reflected in the plane of her paintings as she invites the observer to participate and venture on a grand experience ranging from “emotional musicality to a dream-like luminosity."

Kahn’s artistic language is developed from a world of dynamic oppositions. Kahn has stated “I like working with opposites: flat and receding space, thin and thick paint, hard edge and ephemeral veils, and drips in all directions.” Her work is both spontaneous and controlled. Her juxtaposed compositions are an example of abstraction’s postmodern potential in that she is “investigating ‘its nature by its parts.’”

In her most recent work, she has begun to break free from the constraints of traditional early American abstract painting. Kahn experiments with exploring outside the formal structure of composition and plays with introducing new elements into her paintings such as her application of paint: cross hatching, stippling, ripping, patterning or mark making. The shapes and forms she creates vary in shape, proportion, and location thus developing rich and interesting planes. In addition to form and application technique, Kahn is sensible to color. She creates saturated hues that seem transparent against the opaque adjacent colors. The colors in her work can be viewed as harmonious or discordant. As a result, the experience of viewing her work is dynamic and invigorating and has the ability to reach into the unconscious.