Modfellows presents "The Curve of the Current" by painter Martin Kahnle
Schedule
Thu, 23 Apr, 2026 at 06:00 pm to Fri, 19 Jun, 2026 at 05:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
Modfellows Art Gallery | Nashville, TN
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About this Event
Modfellows is proud to exhibit works by painter Martin Kahnle in his second solo
exhibition at Modfellows. He will be presenting his new wave American landscapes on
canvas. Over the last two years, Kahnle has been developing a body of landscape
paintings in Flashe, a vinyl paint with a flat, matte finish and a vivid, high-color presence
that pushes the works into a different visual language. The surface is drier, flatter, and
more graphic than oil, and that shift opened something up for Kahnle. The works
became bolder, more distilled, and a little stranger-in the best way.
These paintings begin in the landscapes of Tennessee, North Georgia, and the broader
Southeast, but they are not trying to document a place literally. Kahnle is more
interested in the emotional truth of a landscape-how it feels in memory, how color can
sharpen it, bend it, and make it more itself than realism ever could. The easiest way to
describe this body of work is probably as a romantic fling between David Hockney and a
classic Warner Bros. cartoon. Somehow, they had a love child and sent it wandering
through the American South. That may sound playful, but it is close to the truth. Kahnle
has always loved the clean confidence of modern painting and the heightened,
emotionally exact artificiality of classic cartoon backgrounds. Both understand that a
landscape can be stylized and still feel completely real. The Curve of the Current marks
an important new turn in his works.
Where is it happening?
Modfellows Art Gallery, 3655 Trousdale Drive, Nashville, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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