25 | mars | 2014 | VITRINART.

Donna KUHN visual and video art USA ( Taos)

Biography:

Donna Kuhn is a multi-media artist and author working in visual and video art, dance, poetry and sound. She has exhibited her fine art and crafts at Circus Terminal Worldwide Tour, Amsterdam Outsider Art Gallery, Fort Collins Museum of Contemporary Arts (CO), Wilder Nightingale Gallery, (Taos, NM)Taos Digital Art Show, Taos Art in Town Hall Exhibit, The Question Mark Gallery (CA), Mudra Gallery (CA), The Santa Cruz Art League, Santa Cruz Mountain Arts Center, First and Second Annual Santa Cruz Digital Arts Festival, Indies Art Cafe (FL),The Mill Gallery (CA), Santa Cruz Mask Festival, Walnut Avenue Women’s Center (CA), Crafters by the Sea and the Santa Cruz Office of County Education. She lives in Taos, New Mexico.

Donna has studied art at The University of Maryland, Sonoma State University, Santa Rosa Junior College and Cabrillo College is a past member of The Santa Cruz Art League, The Northern California Association of Art Therapists and The International Expressive Therapy Institute. In addition, she has an adult education credential and has taught art, poetry and movement to seniors in nursing homes and retirement centers. She received an award for outstanding work for a graphic medium by a regional women’s journal, Women’s Voices.

Her visual art includes drawing, painting, mask making, doll making, wearable art, jewelry, collage, monoprinting and altered books. In addition, her art and visual poetry have been published widely in print and online literary magazines, art magazines and as illustrations and covers of a few of her poetry books.

She maintains a blog on poetry, visual, video and digital art at digitalaardvarks.blogspot.com and another on poetry/art pictures and animated gifs at picassogirl.tumblr.com

Influences include Picasso, Dubuffet, Klee and outsider art.

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Critiques:

« American artist Donna Kuhn delivers riveting portraits imbued with a radicalized vulnerability, at times violent strokes and colours, contrasted with a soft, soulful gaze. » Louise Pharand, Pharand Art, Toronto

« We are absolutely thrilled to be working with Donna Kuhn. Her paintings, collages, altered books and jewelry are really great. They combine the obsessiveness of an outsider with the composition and palette of a trained artist. Very art brut. » Parker Lanier, High Lonesome Gallery, Texas

Statement:

I make art because that is the only way life makes sense to me. A recurrent theme in my work is the face: semi-abstract, colorful and emotional. I don’t choose to draw these faces. Their forms just come to me. They jump off the page and stare at you. Dare to stare back. I have tried to choose between media. I cannot. I feel fully engaged and alive when I’m creating. I’m a maker of images more than a storyteller. My work is about being a woman and an outsider. It has been described as playful, haunting, bold, whimsical, colorist, sad, poetic, mysterious and tense.

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