Steelpoint Studio

Featured Artist

Marianna Kohl

Marianna Kohl has been making art steadily since the age of single digit, is formally schooled in photography, design, and language, and is self-taught in the alchemy of paint. She practices archival methods and constructs supports that incorporate recycled materials when possible. These 3-dimensional paintings embody a tactile as well as visual presence.

alcedonium album (white calm)
28.5 cm (11”) Ø x 4.5 cm D
oil, wax, pigment, mixed media on panel
lux voratus (swallowing light)

19.5 cm (11”) Ø x 4.5 cm D
acrylic, pigment, mixed media on panel
labo vel nato (sink or swim)

61 cm (24”) Ø x 3.5 cm D
acrylic, pigment, mixed media on canvas
salum caerulum (blue sea)

28.5cm (11”) Ø x 6.5 cm D
oil, pigment, varnish on unstretched canvas
spiritus profundus (deep breath)
33.5 cm (13”) Ø x 4.5 cm D
acrylic, pigment, mixed media, on panel-mounted canvas
tenebra transigere (darkness pierced)
28.5 cm (11”) Ø x 4.5 cm D
oil, wax, pigment, varnish, mixed media on panel

About the work...

The process of layering depth into this work is reminiscent of the transitive, incremental absorption of feeling as an awareness permeates thought and takes hold of the senses.

As each translucent layer of paint builds a dense visual history, so does each transparent layer of awareness form a sensual history.

These paintings are constructed as a physical manifestation of a moment in visual time, an image that would otherwise transmogrify into fleeting sensate memory and in an instant be dispersed into thought.

As a deep breath renews and awakens, these paintings are visual records of breath, intended to serve as a focal point for a meditation, intended to be seen again and again and to evoke a sensual depth into which the beholder can sink in silence--even if only for a moment.

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Steelpoint Studio

Featured Artist

Marianna Kohl

alcedonium album (white calm)

28.5 cm (11”) Ø x 4.5 cm D

oil, wax, pigment, mixed media on panel

lux voratus (swallowing light)

19.5 cm (11”) Ø x 4.5 cm D

acrylic, pigment, mixed media on panel

labo vel nato (sink or swim)

61 cm (24”) Ø x 3.5 cm D

acrylic, pigment, mixed media on canvas

salum caerulum (blue sea)

28.5cm (11”) Ø x 6.5 cm D

oil, pigment, varnish on unstretched canvas

spiritus profundus (deep breath)

33.5 cm (13”) Ø x 4.5 cm D

acrylic, pigment, mixed media, on panel-mounted canvas

tenebra transigere (darkness pierced)

28.5 cm (11”) Ø x 4.5 cm D

oil, wax, pigment, varnish, mixed media on panel