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Brendon Edward Kahn

Southwest US

Artist Statement

Today’s reality is guided by competition alongside the fierce longing to ascend into what many call paradise. What lies in this pursuit are strangely manufactured channels of both sincerity and unsettling moments that make us question our ultimate wishes. These uncomfortable forms of excess, desire, and hope to live forever, tie us together but also create further separation than ever before in this consummate dance to the finish line.

The Baby Tooth Isn't Loose delves into an estranged exploration of the fault lines in human nature where uncanny disruptions defamiliarize our experiences with the ordinary. This mirage makes sharp turns to emotionally probe both the viewer with surreal moments that raise questions around our notions of certainty and visual faith.

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Brendon Edward Kahn's Portfolio

Brendon Edward Kahn, Sliding Hope, Archival Pigment Print (120 Color Negative Film), 32x40 in, 2017
Brendon Edward Kahn, 24k, Archival Pigment Print (120 Color Negative Film), 40x32 in, 2018
Brendon Edward Kahn
Brendon Edward Kahn
Brendon Edward Kahn, Rainbow Selife, Archival Pigment Print, 32x40 in, 2018
Brendon Edward Kahn, The Meeting, Archival Pigment Print (120 Color Negative Film), 22x26 in, 2018
Brendon Edward Kahn, Rise, Chromogenic Print (120 Color Negative Film), 70x57 in, 2017
Brendon Edward Kahn
Brendon Edward Kahn, Neighborhood Watch, Archival Pigment Print (120 Color Negative Film), 55x44 in, 2018
Brendon Edward Kahn, Finding Neverland, Archival Pigment Print (120 Color Negative Film), 32x40 in, 2017

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Artist Biography

Southwest United States based visual artist Brendon Kahn’s work explores today’s reality where the approach to photography is navigated by a mirage in the vicinity of contrast and unsettling moments where uncanny disruptions defamiliarize our experiences with the ordinary. Guided by competition and paved by modernity’s fierce push for perfection, these strangely manufactured channels of both sincerity and surreal moments raise questions around our notions of certainty and visual faith. Using bold, sensual colors within gripping environments Kahn configures a mysterious and at times destabilizing reality for the viewer. Kahn astutely focuses in on the enigmatic perspectives he discovers, thereby revealing the subtleties and strange beauty in the visible world. With concentrated focus, he creates highly charged and psychologically captivating images of great resonance. Recently completing his BFA at California College of the Arts, he continues to make lens based work and won the PDNedu Grandprize for Landscape as well being a finalist for Miami Photo, HeadOn, Lenzburg Foto, shortlisted for the Lucie Foundation x Chromalux Fine Art Scholarship, winner of the Photography Award for the Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize, and one of the Lensculture 2019 Emerging Artist winners.

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