Artist Information:
Francine Kohn
Napa, CA
United States
Member Since: Oct 2000
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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...
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Artist Exhibitions:
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, ...
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Artist Reviews:
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Collections:
Tecta Architects, San
Francisco CA
AUL Corporation, Napa, CA
John Hersey, San Anselmo, CA
Joni Yacoe, Napa, CA
Roger Jeanson, Esq., San
Francisco, CA
John B. Hess, Paradigm Tax
Group, Washington, DC Metro
Area...
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Commissions:
Coming Soon!
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Francine Kohn's Free Artist Portfolio
Welcome to Francine Kohn's Portfolio.
"Paintings that Change Lives": Web: http://local-artists.org/users/francine-kohn
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... |
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