Scott KAHN: My environment influences my painting. When I travel my paintings have external interest. This landscape was inspired by a drive through the Delaware Water Gap in wintertime.
Scott KAHN: Shadow Dance is a study in contrasts. In Jungian psychology the shadow is our nemesis--the dark side of our psyche always waiting to trip us up. So, this painting is a study of humanity and bestiality, interior and exterior, day and night.
Scott KAHN: My 1995 paintings are among the last where I became obsessed with specifics such as blades of grass--never again. I've decided it is just not necessary to paint in such detail. I use varnish to bring out the surface density of my paintings. I wait one year for the oil paint to dry. I have a notebook and use it to keep track of technical procedures. I did begin my academic career studying to be a dentist; I'm very methodical.
Scott KAHN: You can learn to remember and to develop your imagination. I used to paint from life, but I rely on my memory now. I worked on Message and the self portrait at the same time. It was about the time of the Bonnard show. I admired his sense of freedom.
Scott KAHN: My value is as a poet. Poetry is a distillation of experience; poetry reduces experience to an essence. If I have a strength as a painter, it's the poetry of the painting.
Awards to Scott Kahn
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grants--1985, 1995
Change, Inc.--1992
Collections--abbreviated list:
AT&T (NJ &IL)
Dow Jones & Co., Inc.
Sherman & Sterling (NYC)
Davis, Polk & Wardell (NYC)
Marriott Marquis Hotel (NYC)
Security Pacific Bank (CA)
American Management Systems (DC)
Chase Manhattan Bank (NYC)
Allied Bank of Texas
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (NYC)
University of Pennsylvania
Bristol-Myers Squibb (NYC)
Philip Morris Corporation (NYC)
Decor Heytens, S.A. (Belgium)
Scott Kahn Reviews--abbreviated list:
The New York Review of Art--Summer 1994
The New York Times--July 17, 1994
BIDDINGTON'S CREATIVE PROCESS Archives:
Sigmund Abeles Expressive Realist Painter
Javier Astorga Figurative Metal Sculpture
Nancy Azara Sculptor
Tova Beck-Friedman Sculptor & Mixed-Media Artist
Todd Bellanca Abstract Painter
Carol Bruns Bronze Figurative Sculptor
James Burnett Non-Objective Painter
Cynthia Capriata Peruvian Painter & Printmaker
Catalina Chervin Argentine Surrealist Artist
Diane Churchill Expressionist Painter
John Clem Clarke Pop Artist
Lisa Dinhofer Illusionist Painter
Michael Eastman Faux-Primitive Painter
Lynne Frehm New York Abstract Painter
Betsey Garand Minimalist Painter & Fine Art Printmaker
Mary Teresa Giancoli Personal Documentary Photographer
Debora Gilbert-Ryan New Image Painter
Janet Goldner African-Influenced Steel Sculpture
Harry Gordon Monumental Sculpture
Marilyn Greenberg Narrative Abstract Painter
Patricia Hansen Portrait and Still Life Painter
Richard Heinrich Welded Steel Sculpture
Charles Hewitt Painter & Monotype Printmaker
Diane Holland Intermedia Collage Artist
GH Hovagimyan Pop/Conceptual Artist
LA Hughes Pop Artist
Frances Jetter Bronze Sculptor & Editorial Illustrator
Scott Kahn Fantasy Painter
Susan Kaprov Digital Printmaker and Abstract Painter
Babette Katz Narrative Printmaker and Book Artist
Richard Mock Abstract Painter & Linocut Printmaker
Bill Murphy Contemporary Realist Painter
Jim Napierala Abstract Painter
Frances Pellegrini New York City & Fashion Photographer
Eolo Pons Argentine Master
Joseph Reeder Cross Media Artist Paintings & Ceramics
Laura Shechter Contemporary Realist Painter
Annemarie Slipper Figurative Ceramic Sculpture
Gary Slipper Fantasy Painter
Margaret Speer Landscape & Travel Paintings
Serena Tallarigo Marble Sculptor
Rein Triefeldt Kinetic Sculpture
Vivian Tsao Painter of Light
Nancy Van Deren Contemporary Painter
Joan Berg Victor Drawings from Nature
Edward Walsh Figurative Sculpture in Bronze, Marble & Steel
Kate Wattson Contemporary Colorist Painter
Betty Winkler Organic Minimalist Painter & Printmaker