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Aunia Marie Kahn (born December 5, 1977) is an American contemporary painter, gallerist, curator, and entrepreneur. She was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, and currently lives in Boise, Idaho. She is also the owner of the Poetic Tiger Gallery the founder of Rise Visible.
Kahn originally began creating art as a therapeutic response to a difficult upbringing as well as chronic illnesses. At the urging of a friend, her work was first exhibited publicly in December 2005 as part of the Voices Within Surviving Through the Arts show mounted by the St. Louis Artists' Guild. Her work has been shown at the San Diego Art Institute, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, IMOCA, St. Louis Art Museum, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Mitchell Museum, and the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art.
Self-taught [2], Kahn works works in gouache, acrylic, watercolor and colored pencil. Her art frequently features figurative subjects in Maximalist compositions juxtaposed with symbols and nature.
An interest in tarot led to the creation of the Silver Era Tarot deck, published by Schiffer Publishing in April 2010.
In October 2010 Kahn curated the Lowbrow Tarot Project, a collection of pieces loosely centered on the lowbrow art style, representing the 22 cards of the Major Arcana and a 23rd piece representing the back of the cards. The works were exhibited at La Luz de Jesus gallery, Los Angeles, California, and were published as a coffee table book and a card deck. As well as Kahn herself, artists featured included Molly Crabapple, David Stoupakis, Chet Zar, Angie Mason, Daniel Martin Diaz and Chris Mars.
Her piece Rousing the Whirlwind was chosen by Les Bourgeois vineyard, Rocheport, Missouri, to appear on the label of its limited edition 2005 Syrah. The wine went on sale in 2007.
Bibliography
The Art of Aunia Kahn, Alexi Era Publishing, 2018 ISBN 978-0-9916247-3-7
Obvious Remote Chaos, Old Line Publishing, 2010 ISBN 978-0-9841065-9-2
The Silver Era Tarot, Schiffer Publishing, 2010 ISBN 978-0-7643-3438-2
Lowbrow Tarot: An Artistic Collaborative Effort in Honor of Tarot, Schiffer Publishing, 2012 ISBN 978-0-7643-4233-2
Lowbrow Tarot: Major Arcana Cards, Schiffer Publishing, 2012 ISBN 978-0-7643-4235-6
Inspirations for Survivors, Schiffer Publishing, 2012 ISBN 978-0-7643-4124-3
The Witch's Oracle, Schiffer Publishing, 2014 ISBN 978-0-7643-4931-7
Tarot Under Oath, Alexi Era Gallery, 2014 ISBN 978-0-9916-2470-6
The Witch's Oracle 2nd Edition, Red Feather Publishing, 2019 ISBN 978-0-7643-5783-1
Avalanche of White Reason: The Photography & Writings of Aunia Kahn, Lokreign, 2015 ISBN 978-0-9916-2471-3
Curated Shows
All Exhibitions, Alexi Era Gallery, Eugene, 2012–2017
Tarot Under Oath, Last Rites Gallery, New York NY, 2014
Touched By Violence, Framations Gallery, St. Louis, 2013
Moon Goddess, Modern Eden Gallery, San Francisco, 2012
The Lowbrow Tarot Project, La Luz de Jesus, Los Angeles, 2010
Darkest Dreams a Lighted Way, Fort Gondo Compound for the Arts, St. Louis, 2008
The Beauty From Within, ArtDimensions Gallery, St. Louis, 2006
Art of Being a Woman, ArtDimensions Gallery, St. Louis, 2006
Selected Press
Art That Creeps, Strychnin Gallery and Korero, 2009, pp. 88–95 ISBN 978-0-9558336-7-0
Mynameis issue 8, Graphotism, 2010, pp. 136–157
Photographer's Forum, Best of College Photography, Serbin Communications, 2009, p. 64
References
External links
Aunia Kahn website
Artist Interview Aunia Kahn
Video interview with Aunia Kahn
