Brad Kahlhamer

Brad Kahlhamer fuses an exuberant embrace of Abstract Expressionist painting with the visionary tradition of Native American art. Drawing from country western and the Native American rock music scene, the artist’s visionary landscapes swirl with an atavistic energy—the paintings seem to have a sound that accompanies their visual rhythm. The great American bald eagle sweeps though the paintings almost as a surrogate for the artist, representing his immersion into his personal American landscape. Kahlhamer has created his own world in these paintings mixing representations of the real into a visionary “third place,” as the artist describes it.

Kahlhamer works in a range of media from painting and sculpture to performance art and music, and has also created album artwork for musical groups such as The Kills, and Man Man. He has had solo exhibitions at Denver Museum of Contemporary Art, The Aldridge Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut, Scottsdale Contemporary Museum of Art, Scottsdale, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, and Modern Art, London, among many others. 

Courtesy of Michael Steinberg Fine Art