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Scott Kahn’s Intensely ‘Unique Voice’ Haunts Manhattan

Although there is a great variety of subject, his work changes little in its basic vibe or its look. It does not lose for this steadiness, always containing simmering drama.

Detail of Scott Kahn‘s ‘The Barn,’ 1982. The New York Sun/Dana Gordon
DANA GORDON
DANA GORDON

Scott Kahn’s paintings are both haunting and hauntingly good. You can see his important vision at New York City’s Almine Rech Gallery through June 14.  

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DANA GORDON
DANA GORDON

Mr. Gordon is a painter and a writer, and once-upon-a-time avant-garde filmmaker who has been based mainly in New York City since the 1960s. His artwork has been shown in solo shows at the Museum of Modern Art and many galleries in New York City, the U.S., and Europe and his writing on art has been published in the Wall Street Journal, the New Criterion, Commentary, Art Critical, Painters Table, and other journals.

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