Daniel Kohn

The role of the artist is to offer a point of view so that those looking at the work may better reflect on their ways of seeing.

Until 2003 the places I painted were physical - the farmhouse in France, the view from the World Trade Center - but I saw my relation to them as exploring manifestations of humanity. Places carry the ideas of the cultures that built them, the scattering of things are traces of the people who lived there. Paintings of place are representations of World Views.

In 2003 this interest in place and ideas has took me into an ongoing encounter with genomics and the space of science, a ten year involvement with the Broad Institute (a genomics research institute at MIT) and increasing engagement with the world of interdisciplinary collaborations. In this new body of work I am looking at Art and Science as interacting fields with which we construct meaning and structure our thoughts.

As an artist I am used to making leaps of intuition towards new spaces of artistic inquiry. The most recent of these leaps occured in November 2016 when I attended the NAS conference “Discovering the Deep Blue Sea” which brought together a diversity of scientists, technologist, artists and educators, to focus their attention on...

Solo Exhibitions and Large Scale Commissions:

2016
Network NE; Commissioned by Partner Healthcare, Somerville, MA.

2015
Networks, Maps and Territories; CYNTHIA-REEVES, North Adams, MA.
Painted Place; CYNTHIA-REEVE, Walpole, NH.

2014
Substrate of Nature; CYNTHIA-REEVE, Brattleboro, VT.

2013
Instance of a Dataset; Commissionned by the Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA.

2011
Dataset and 9 SubSets; Commissioned by Duke Energy Headquarters, Charlotte, NC.
DataSets; Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH.

2010
DataSets; Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA.

2009
Sets and States; Cynthia Reeves Gallery, New York, NY.
New Directions; 3 Column Gallery, Harvard, Cambridge, MA.

2007
Presence and Memory; Spheris Gallery, Hanover NH.

2006
Presence and Memory; Reeves Contemporary Gallery, New York, NY.

2005
SKH Gallery, Great Barrington, MA.

2004
Looking South; Commissioned by FTCI, Rockefeller Center, New York, NY.
InteriorPortraits; Reeves Contemporary, New York City, NY.
Spheris Gallery, Be...