Kohn Gallery announces representation of Nir Hod
Nir Hod. Courtesy of the artist.
LOS ANGELES, CA
.-Kohn Gallery announced the representation of New York-based artist Nir Hod. Over the last 20 years the artist has exhibited internationally in Europe, Asia, Israel and the United States, and has established a reputation for intrinsically beautiful works, from figuration to abstraction, that belie a deeper, fundamental meaning. Last July, Kohn Gallery debuted Hods first West Coast solo exhibition of paintings and sculpture titled The Life We Left Behind.
Known for his reflective, abstract paintings, Hod often begins his process with heavily-labored gradient beneath paintings adding a chroming technique first developed by the U.S. Navy in 1939, then degrading this finish application via water, ammonia, air pressure and various acids to create a surface tension between newfangled industrial applications and age-old oil technique. His canvases are heavily laden with paint and chrome, and the result is a perfect, nuanced balance between surface elegance and painterly depth.