Research Catalog

Title

Wyatt Kahn : object paintings / [foreword by Lisa Melandri ; text by Robert Slifkin ; interview by Jeffrey Uslip]

Author

Kahn, Wyatt, 1983-

Publication

• St. Louis : Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis [2016]
• ©2016

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Melandri, Lisa
• Slifkin, Robert
• Uslip, Jeffrey
• Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, host institution

Description

132 pages (6 folded) : illustrations (chiefly color); 30 cm

Summary

Hovering in the space between sculpture and painting, the work of New York-based Wyatt Kahn (born 1983) reinvigorates the legacy of minimalism. His large-scale paintings collapse figuration and abstraction, encapsulate dynamic energy into geometric form and embrace imperfections and raw surfaces in an entirely human way. 'Wyatt Kahn: Object Paintings' features work from Kahn's first solo museum exhibition at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. With an essay by scholar Robert Slifkin, the book also includes an interview between the artist and exhibition curator Jeffrey Uslip. Slifkin places Kahn in a 'vitalist tradition of modernism' that includes Ad Reinhardt, Frank Stella and Donald Judd. But in contrast to those more pristine artists, Kahn allows imperfection in his work. 'Every part of my work is made by my hand, which is a flawed hand,' he tells Uslip, 'I embrace my natural flaws, and that vulnerability becomes empowerment.'

Alternative Title

Object paintings

Subject

• Kahn, Wyatt, 1983- > Exhibitions
• Art, Modern > Exhibitions

Note

• Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name, held at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, September 11 - December 27, 2015.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Call Number

JQF 17-2216

ISBN

• 9780988997042
• 0988997045

OCLC

990411240

Author

Kahn, Wyatt, 1983- artist.

Title

Wyatt Kahn : object paintings / [foreword by Lisa Melandri ; text by Robert Slifkin ; interview by Jeffrey Uslip]

Publisher

St. Louis : Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis [2016]

Copyright Date

©2016

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

still image

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Melandri, Lisa, writer of foreword.

Slifkin, Robert, writer of supplementary textual content.

Uslip, Jeffrey, interviewer.

Kahn, Wyatt, 1983- Works. Selections.

Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, host institution.

Research Call Number

JQF 17-2216