Azarian McCullough Art Gallery Presents Rachel Kohn: Ground Gradation

Rachel Kohn creates physical, meditative landscapes that offer a space for the viewer to explore cycles of growth and decay. Her work focuses on nature, but is also inspired by human fragility and cycles of life and death. Her paintings investigate a shifting of energy, finding light from darkness, control from chaos, and balance from the unbalanced. These cavernous landscapes explore patterns within the natural world and are influenced by deterioration, fragility, devastation, and renewal.

Each piece hovers on the boundary between painting and sculpture. Kohn builds up a surface using wax,plaster and foam and then carves the materials back to reveal what has been covered. The work becomes both abstraction and landscape and references layers of earth or flesh as the surface is gouged away. Kohn has a B.A. from Skidmore College in Art and Mathematics, and an M.F.A. from Hunter College in painting. Her work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, and London.Currently she is an adjunct instructor at the College of New Rochelle, and an instructor at Brooklyn Art Space.

Rachel Kohn: Ground Gradation runs through November 2.

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