• PHOTOGRAPHY—Cahn’s world class lighting, expertise, and creativity is on full display in this “Master Class” on black and white photography that examines a nuanced range of subject matter ranging from figure to street photography. All of the images were self-printed by Cahn in his lifetime, and most are non-editioned, unique prints.
• WATERCOLORS—With a watercolor practice rooted in formal Color Exploration and Color Theory, Cahn quested to achieve something new with the medium. His complex colorwork, in examples such as “Reclining Nude” and “Portrait, is absolutely unique and hypnotic.
• SCULPTURE— As a student of sculptors such as Fite and de Creeft, the quality Cahn’s sculpture is envisaged. A number of the artist’s sculptures will be on display in the current exhibition including his final, unfinished artwork.

• CERAMICS—With only four examples known to be in existence, this is one of the rarer mediums employed by Cahn. All pieces will be included in the current exhibition.

“I sing the body electric,

The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth them,

They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them,

And discorrupt them, and charge them full with the charge of the soul.”

Bruce often recited I sing the body electric by Walt Whitman during his creative process as it was his spiritual chanting. It was his ritual that allowed him to connect with his higher-self navigating him in a state of transcendence.

An outsider in many senses of the word, Bruce Cahn was a prolific and reclusive creator of a diverse range of distinctive images and sculptural objects. His practice was both obsessive and spiritual, working tirelessly, day-after-day, in private to perfect each hand-made visual art discipline—a goal he believed that would prepare him for his next life. Once he’d become an expert in one medium, he would turn to another – always learning, always growing.

Bruce’s creative ambitions persisted. He continued his education at Bard College, where he studied with Harvey Fite, whom he helped  at Harvey’s quarry at the beginning development of what is now known the Opus 40, in Saugerties, NY; Rhode Island School of Design; and with sculptor José Mariano de Creeft. He also became a lifetime member of The Art Students League, a refuge he routinely frequented for the remainder of his life to draw, paint, and make sculptures. It was within the walls of these institutions that Bruce began his far-reaching and lifelong exploration into the formal elements of art.

Bruce has produced a prodigious body of work over a 40-year period inside of his modest Chelsea studio or cottage in Woodstock, and included street photography, analog photographs, nude watercolor studies, geometric oil paintings, and eccentric self-portraits.

A portion of sale from Bruce Cahn: Discovered will go to support the charities People’s Place and the Woodstock School of Art. This exhibition was organized in partnership with  Bruce A. Cahn Estate and made possible by the endless support of his loving wife, Mavie Cahn.

THE LOCKWOOD GALLERY

Originally designed as the offices and conference room for Lockwood Architecture, PLLC and Dynamsm Builders, Michael Lockwood, art enthusiast and (when time permits) student at The Woodstock School of Art, soon developed an alternative vision for the spectacular space he had built.

The Lockwood Gallery specializes contemporary art and under the direction of curator  Alan Goolman, has become known for its narrative driven exhibitions featuring the work  of well-established artists from the Hudson Valley and beyond.