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Artist Statement:
"Paintings that Change Lives":
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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:
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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Francine Kohn Biography:
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| Gender |
Female
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| Status |
Single
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| Children |
99
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| Religion |
Bewish |
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| Education |
Self Taught |
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| Hobbies / Interests |
music, movement, potential of individual, space, metaphysics, ocean, nature, walks |
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| Favorite Artistic Medium |
Painting Oil
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| Favorite Arthistory Movement |
Abstract Art - (1910 - )
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| Favorite Visual Artist |
Gerhard Richter
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| Favorite Work of Art |
Starry Night
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| Biggest Artistic Inspiration |
Vincent VanGogh, Gerhard Richter,Art Holman, Ali Akbar Khan, Zakir Hussain |
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| Why Did You Become An Artist |
Painting is my first language, color my first love. When I first picked up a brush, I felt I had come home.
I believe each of us is profoundly affected by viewing and/or making art. It opens us up to a part within otherwise not available to us; the part of us that is innately whole. To provide access to this holy place is my joy and my job. |
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| Your Personal Biography |
Raised near the beaches of Southern California, Francine Kohn has a love of bright colors, dynamic water, and vibrant energy. She explores the phenomena of sense perception as a vehicle to self-knowledge. Her paintings of visual symbols center on the nature of reality and universal, human experiences -- love, rage, the discovery of consciousness -- and computer programming. Their roots are in Western art, North Hindustani music, spiritual traditions, and technology.
Thousands of individuals have experienced her painting and creativity workshops, classes, and lectures assisting participants in getting to the place of creative flow and energy with ease.
Francine brings over 20 years of independent study, experience and practice in painting, metaphysics, and sacred geometry to her work as an artist and teacher. She provides a fun environment for the full development, power and expression of the individual.
Francine has been a painter for over 20 years. She studied the making of art for two years with Art Holman, renowned color-field painter/student of Hans Hofmann.
Her love of life, music and metaphysics led her to study North Indian classical vocal music with Dr. Ali Akbar Khan. She has been a participant to many alternative ways to discover the nature of ourselves, how we perceive and reality. Francine worked on the software development team for the $4.5 billion publisher of computer-aided design (CAD). These influences have shaped her work.
Exhibited nationally and collected internationally, Francine Kohn's original acrylic and oil paintings feature rhythmic layers of unique color harmonies with glazing techniques from the Masters. Images are revealed that become scenes appearing to move across the canvas. She creates dynamic environments of perception and power. They are designed to awe the viewer.
Today, she enjoys a growing list of admirers and collectors. Email Francine to learn more. Thanks for reading.
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