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Summary
Art Biography
Renee
Kahn studied at the High School of Music & Art in New York
City and received her Bachelors and Masters degree in art
at the City College of New York. She continued her education
with post graduate work at Columbia University's School of
Architecture and Planning and also studied printmaking with
Antonio Frasconi at Pratt Graphics Center in New York.
Ms.
Kahn was an instructor in art and art history at the University
of Connecticut's Stamford Campus for close to twenty-five
years, retiring in 1998. She taught basic survey courses as
well as courses in Early Twentieth Century Art and American
Art. Kahn used her knowledge of American architecture to work
as a consultant in the field of historic preservation, primarily
the rehabilitation of inner city housing. Her book on the
American front porch, Preserving Porches, was published in
1990 by Henry Holt and sold well over 10,000 copies.
During
this period, Kahn persistently continued to create and exhibit
her own work. After leaving the Ward Nasse Gallery on Prince
Street in the late 1970s, she removed herself from the New
York City art scene, turning her experiences as a preservationist
in worn out industrial cities into art. A recent installation,
Box City, consisted of over 150 different sized cardboard
boxes filled with her interpretations of the panorama of urban
life. This wall sized construction was exhibited in 1996 at
the SOHO 20 Gallery on Greene Street in New York City.
Kahn
has shown her work in over forty group shows and in half a
dozen one man shows through the country. In recent years,
she has had large scale exhibitions of her work at the New
Hampshire Institute of Art in Manchester, N.H., the Hurlburt
Gallery in Greenwich and the William Benton Museum at the
University of Connecticut in Storrs. CT. She is a founding
member of the Loft Artists Association in Stamford, a group
of artists working at the former Yale & Towne Lock Factory
and has created several installation pieces for their annual
exhibits. Her most recent work was seen in 1999 at the Stamford
Museum in a show she created and curated entitled Vulcan's
Forge, artwork based on the use of salvaged metal. Her current
work is a series of small, satirical drawings in pen and ink
and watercolor.
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