oldSpeak: Interview with Daniel Kohn
As one of many visual artists who took part in World Views, a cultural program offering vacant office space in Tower One of the World Trade Center, Daniel Kohn painted several views of the New York landscape from his 91 st floor studio. Of course, on September 11, 2001 the landscape paintings that Kohn produced during his residency in 1998-99, which he says "embody the physical sensations of being up there in the Towers," took on a new significance.
Brooklyn Trio 1 - Horizon 26 - 2000 - oil on canvas - 89 x 18 in
Ute Stebich Gallery: Fragile Horizon
Garces y Velasquez Gallery: Conversation in the studio, Exhibition text
Painting is a place. The tension between the painting's actual surface and its metaphoric space creates a conflagration out of which meaning is born - or at least the potential for meaning. That is the specific place of painting.