Scott Kahn is a painter based in Connecticut and New York. Kahn creates landscapes, still-life and portraits that comprise a combination of detailed yet slightly gestural brushstrokes while utilizing sharp, juxtaposing perspectives, creating dream-like overtones. For the artist, painting is a visual diary. These colorfully riveting, foreshortened environments serve as lyrical metaphors for what one sees.

Lunar EclipseII (2008) is a pastoral landscape that features a grove of red trees that extend to the horizon line and stretch toward a star-filled sky, pierced by an orange tinted moon. Colors swirl throughout Frozen Pond (2011), a painting of barren land, trees and sky whereas Autumn Moon (2010) portrays a myriad of iridescent, gold leaf trees beneath a moon that appears ensconced in a dark blue sky. Portrait of Alberta Cifolelli (2017) frames the sitter before a spectrum of detailed foliage that includes a lush green landscape, divided by a stream that crosses throughout the background, below a thin strip of white clouds that layer across a blue sky.

Kahn has had seven one-man shows in New York and in 2004 a retrospective at the Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. From 1975 to 1977 Scott Kahn was an artist-in-residence at the Albee Foundation in Montauk, New York. In 1986 he received a grant from The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and then another in 1995. In 2008 Kahn won Honorable Mention for the Artful Home Portfolio Competition. Beginning in 2006, Berkshire Nightscape hung in the American Embassy in Moscow for three years as part of the Art In Embassies Program.

The artist’s work has appeared in dozens of group shows throughout Connecticut, New York, Illinois. His work recently appeared in I Can See the Moon, a group show that took place at the Milavec Hakimi Gallery in New York City on January 2012. From February 25th to April 8th, 2012 the artist had a solo show at the Alexey von Schlippe Gallery at the University of Connecticut in Groton, Connecticut. Scott Kahn will present a giclée print of Lunar Eclipse II in Real Time on February 8th at 526 West 26th Street #523 and from March 8th to March 10th, 2013 he will participate in the Fountain Art Fair in New York.