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Corridor Conversations with Wyatt Kahn & Daniel S. Palmer
/// October 30 @ 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
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Join Poydras Corridor Sculpture Exhibition artist Wyatt Kahn and Daniel S. Palmer, Chief Curator of Savannah College of Art and Design Museum of Art, as they explore public art, discuss private studio practice and share insight into the art and ideas along the Poydras Corridor presented by The Helis Foundation.
This free conversation will be moderated by William Pittman Andrews, The Helis Foundation Executive Director of Ogden Museum of Southern Art.
Free to attend, but pre-registration is requested.
RegisterDoors at 5:30 p.m. and conversation at 6 p.m. Please note that seating is limited and first come first served.
About Wyatt Kahn
Wyatt Kahn (b. 1983) lives and works in New York. He is primarily known for his investigations into the visual and spatial relationship between painting and sculpture. Kahn assembles complex wall-mounted works in which the gaps between the individual canvases give rise to abstract or pictorial compositions. Rather than tracing the lines and shapes directly onto the canvas itself, he turns them into physical components of the artwork. Referencing the tradition of minimalist abstraction, Wyatt Kahn’s monochrome multi-panel ‘paintings’ are informed by a desire to explore non-illusory forms of representation. In essence, their subject becomes the interplay between two and three dimensions, as experienced via shifts in surface, structure and depth. In Kahn’s work, the wall upon which the work is hung becomes an integral part of the composition. Interested in a painting’s potential to function as the very embodiment of the object it depicts, Kahn has also developed works in which the shaped stretchers combine to create the form of an actual object, while a synthesis of hand-drawn motifs and words epitomise its essential qualities.
Kahn’s work is included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; MOCA, Los Angeles; Dallas Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; and Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, among others.
About Daniel S. Palmer
Daniel S. Palmer is chief curator at the SCAD Museum of Art in Savannah, Georgia. Previously, he was curator at Public Art Fund, New York, where he organized twenty exhibitions, including Wyatt Kahn: Life in the Abstract (2022). He has also served as the Leon Levy Assistant Curator at the Jewish Museum and Curatorial Research Assistant at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Palmer has curated numerous exhibitions independently and has contributed writing to many artist monographs, publications and journals. He holds a Ph.D. and M.Phil in art history from the CUNY Graduate Center and a B.A. from Rutgers University.
About Poydras Corridor Sculpture Exhibition
The Poydras Corridor Sculpture Exhibition presented by The Helis Foundation (PCSE) is the South’s leading outdoor, rotating public sculpture exhibition located in the heart of downtown New Orleans spanning Poydras Street between Convention Center Boulevard and North Galvez Street. Since 2013, PCSE has featured over 40 sculptures along the Poydras Corridor, showcasing the work of renowned local, regional and international artists. The vision of PCSE is to increase accessibility to interesting and inspiring sculpture for the residents of and visitors to one of New Orleans’ most highly trafficked thoroughfares.
PCSE is a collaboration between The Helis Foundation, Ogden Museum of Southern Art and the City of New Orleans Department of Parks and Parkways. The Helis Foundation is the exhibition’s sole funder.
As the South’s largest rotating public sculpture exhibition, with fourteen installations currently on view, Poydras Corridor Sculpture Exhibition presented by The Helis Foundation reinforces New Orleans’ status as a leading international destination for the visual arts; creates economic and programming opportunities for a diversity of artists; and beautifies and provides visual interest to the heavily-trafficked vehicular and pedestrian artery connecting the Arts District, Central Business District and historic French Quarter.
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