Nir hod butterfly painting acrylic

Medium: acrylic and mixed media on canvas; Size: 176 x 240 cm.

  • Medium: acrylic and mixed media on canvas; Size: 176 x 240 cm.
  • Hod began his artistic career in figuration, where he provoked his viewers by painting androgynous self-portraits and cigarette-smoking children.
  • Hod is best known for constantly challenging the medium of painting itself.
  • Butterfly (I Miss U), 2006.
  • After long conservative Israeli painting tradition, Hod's art emerged in the 1990s and was refreshing and sought after.

    • Hod is best known for constantly challenging the medium of painting itself.!

     

    It doesn’t matter if the story is precisely true…it’s about you telling the story.

    It’s almost like going to a rock concert where the audience sings along with the performer. I want the viewer’s experiences to be echoed in the work as they are reflected back in the canvases.

    — Nir Hod

    Kohn Gallery is delighted to announce its second solo exhibition of Israeli-born New York-based artist Nir Hod.

    In 100 Years Is Not Enough, Hod’s artistic practice draws upon personal memory and traumatic historical events to elicit subtle tensions between the viewer’s expectations and the material reality of the painting surface.

    The title of the exhibition, 100 Years Is Not Enough, is taken from Hod’s naturalistic group of floral landscapes which employ similar elements from his distinct chromed, abstract canvases.

    These new works present a masterful play between the profoundly illusionistic depth of the chromed, mirror-like surface that reflects the viewer and th