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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