About the Exhibition

THROUGH DECEMBER 31, 2023

LongHouse Reserve is excited to present Wyatt Kahn: Life in the Abstract. Over the past ten years, Kahn has examined the spatial relationship between painting and sculpture to construct a visual vocabulary of representational and abstract forms that integrate formal concerns with materials from everyday life. His new works are playful narrative compositions with oversized figurative icons taken from domestic life. For instance, in Parade, a foot is about to crush a lightbulb. Each sculpture comprises numerous sections of steel that have been welded together into block-like forms, their front and back mirroring each other to create an illusion of drawing in space. The deep, rusted red tone of the sculptures is a result of the natural weathering process of Cor-Ten steel, contrasting with the lush green foliage the LongHouse garden.