MARTIN KAHNLE
Born: 1969│Lives and works in Kennesaw, Georgia

Martin Kahnle’s recent paintings were inspired by the beauty of living in the Blue Ridge of lower-Appalachia and executed outside Atlanta where the artist lives and works.

Kahnle explores the way that composition influences a visual narrative by conducting the viewer through the space of the painting, using a hyper-vibrant color palette and the action of the paint and brushwork, rivers flow, trees sway and plants come alive, reminding us that we are alone in our inner and external worlds but part of a universal whole.

Like nature itself, the paintings are simple and complex at the same time and offer a sense of peace, harmony, and quiet joy.

Education:

1991: Berry College (Rome, GA), Bachelor of Science (BS), Fine Arts
1990: University of Georgia (Cortona, Italy), Study Abroad

Exhibitions:

2022:
Peaceable Kingdom, TEW Galleries, Atlanta, GA
Lovescapes, Modfellows, Nashville, TN

2021: 
I Am Water, Houska Gallery, St. Louis, MO

2020: 
Recent Paintings, In the Hall Gallery, Nashville, TN

2019:
 Recent Paintings, University City Public Library, University City, MO

 Biosphere, James May Gallery, Algoma, WI

2018:
 Recent Paintings, In the Hall Gallery, Nashville, TN

2017: 
Recent Landscapes, Sechrest Art Gallery, High Point University, High Point, NC

2016:
 Recent Paintings, Abbey Leix Gallery, O’More College, Franklin, TN

 A Mental Landscape, Friday Studio Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2015:
 ABC Nashville, Pale Love appears on season 4

Alumni Invitational, Moon Gallery, Berry College, Rome, GA

2011:
 Small Works, Boltax Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY

 Recent Paintings, Ironworks Gallery, West Orange, NJ

 Every Ending is a New Beginning, 92 Lafayette Gallery, Suffern, NY

2010: 
Laughing at Talking Pictures with a Dead Goat, Moon Gallery, Berry College, Rome, GA

2008: Alumni Invitational, Moon Gallery, Berry College, Rome, GA

1993:
 Fall Group Show, Bella Museo, Atlanta, GA

 Rituals of the Blind, Moon Gallery, Berry College, Rome, GA

1992:
 Fall Group Show, Godzilla Gallery, Atlanta, GA

1990:
 All Things Good, Everything Evil, Moon Gallery, Berry College, Rome, GA

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