Recognizable forms interact with abstraction in Spilling. A figure in profile raises a thumb to his chin—a gesture of thinking—while a fiery orange element rises from a raised finger. A red mass envelops the hand in the lower right while a bright orange and yellow form pulses within the silhouette of the head. While the gesture of the figure is meditative, the abstract kaleidoscope of color suggests complex emotions.
Kohler was born in Voorhees, New Jersey, and lives in Brooklyn. He holds a BFA in painting from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He presented his first solo exhibition, The Invert, at MARCH Gallery in Manhattan, and has exhibited at John Davis Gallery in Hudson, New York; Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery and Zürcher Gallery in Manhattan; and Woodmere, among others. Kohler’s work is in the permanent collections of Woodmere and the Peter Bullough Foundation in Winchester, Virginia.
