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Wyatt Kahn
Paintings and Sculptures


Editor(s)	Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Xavier Hufkens
Author(s)	Makenna Goodman, Daniel S. Palmer, Lloyd Wise
Design	Book Book, Berlin
Cover	Softcover
Size	25 x 29 cm
Pages	144
Illustrations	120
Language(s)	English
ISBN	978-3-96912-094-1

Wyatt Kahn’s (b. New York, 1983; lives and works in New York) work hovers between two and three dimensions, reviving aspects of American 1960s Minimal Art. In the tradition of minimalist abstraction, his multipart paintings seem devoid of content, but their construction is a sophisticated choreography of geometric shapes. Instead of delineating them on the canvas itself, he transforms them into physical elements composed of canvas stretched over strips of wood that he mounts on the wall as reliefs, making the latter an integral part of the composition. Working on the interface between painting and sculpture, the artist also references Ellsworth Kelly’s single and multiple shaped canvases.

Wyatt Kahn’s works are held by major collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Centre Pompidou, Paris; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Dallas Museum of Art; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo.