Opening reception: Friday, April 13th | 6pm-8pm

Adrian Rosenfeld is pleased to announce Wyatt Kahn’s first exhibition in San Francisco. Kahn continues to conflate the boundaries between painting, sculpture, drawing and print-making in his latest body of work, which functions as a sort of musing on life in the studio and the weight of art history. Kahn constructs paintings from hand-cut panels individually wrapped in materials like raw linen and milled lead. He employs this process with a series of forms abstracted from the world around him, while simultaneously narrowing in on a group of figurative elements – a pair of glasses, a telephone, a hand, a foot, a tube of paint – that relate to his studio practice. These symbols have appeared in relief paintings as well as silver gelatin prints made in 2016. Kahn has developed a distinct vocabulary, the full range of which is seen here, most notably in his first combination pictures that merge representation and abstraction, often times with an anthropomorphic and humorous gesture.

Wyatt Kahn (b. 1983) lives and works in New York. Recent solo exhibitions were held at Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto; Trento (2016) and at the Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, MO (2015). His work is included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Dallas Museum of Art; MCA, Chicago; and Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo. He is currently included in the exhibition Jay DeFeo: The Ripple Effect at Le Consortium in Dijon, on view through May 20th, which will travel to the Aspen Art Museum this summer (June 29-October 28, 2018). He is represented by Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich and Xavier Hufkens, Brussels.