Spotlight: Nanci Kahn

TRUST

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About The Show

TRUST. This has become my mantra in the Covid-19 era. I think about it any time I leave home. Can we really trust a person always wears their mask and washes their hands? Can we really trust what the government is saying? And why don’t some trust the science?

This work has layers of disease and beauty, using photographs, encaustics and oil paint. They are flowers that have poisonous components. They are cancer cells that sometime look as benign as plankton. They’re coronavirus and HIV cells. They’re also photomicrographs from a Maine Medical Center Research Institute scientist. She builds armatures from silkworm silk on which she researches ways to eradicate cancer.

Together, they form a grid of many properties - deceiving ones, healing ones, lethal ones - each echoing the chaotic socio-political climate of 2020. 

~ Nanci Kahn

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Nanci Kahn
Nanci Kahn

Nanci Kahn is a photographer and sculptor based in Falmouth, Maine. She has exhibited in galleries and museums in Maine, New York, San Francisco and Ethiopia.

Her work can be found in the permanent collections at the National Museum of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, The Kroch Library at Cornell University, the Institute of Human Origins at Arizona State University, the Stephen K Halpert Photography Collection at the University of New England, Portland, Maine., and the Judy Ellis Glickman Collection, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine.

These pieces are vibrant, unique and fascinating, individually or as a grouping.

Mixed Media (photography, encaustics & oil paint) on panel
6” x 6”
$300 each

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