Miles McInerney, New York, October 30 to Dec 20 2025
The Wolf Kahn exhibition reads like a clear, late chapter for an artist who made color carry far. Curated by M. Rachael Arauz, the show gathered oils and pastels with chromatic abandon. Acid greens press against smoky violets. Barns and tree belts hold the field. The result was a concise survey of how Kahn fused observation with Color Field thinking, replacing topography with sensation.
Wolf Kahn was born in Stuttgart in 1927 and immigrated to the United States in 1940. He studied with Hans Hofmann and moved fluidly between New York and a farm in West Brattleboro, Vermont. The blend of realist structure and luminous color became his signature across oil and pastel. Kahn died in 2020.