Keren Toledano is a writer and painter based in Brooklyn, New York. Her work explores the overlap of story and image, and the multiple ways we read meaning in abstraction. She is currently focused on color as a narrative means, and the liminal space where chromatic shifts create fields of perception.
She has exhibited nationally at various galleries, The Austin Affordable Art Fair and The International Contemporary Furniture Fair, among others. Her paintings have been featured in publications such as Vogue, The New York Times, AD, and Create!, and she was a recent Studio Visit Artist for “I Like Your Work.” She holds a BA in English from Harvard, and an MA in Arts & Humanities from New York University.
ARTIST STATEMENT
The human eye never sees a flat chroma; it reads mixtures of wavelengths and interprets them in context. In Keren Toledano’s veil paintings, the artist stages this aspect by laminating acrylic stains on raw canvas. New hues emerge from within the strata, as transparent films blend and bleed along edges. Colors shift in relation to their placement, and the act of seeing becomes a part of the painting.
The question is always, “What am I seeing that isn’t there, and what am I not seeing that is?” In our highly visual and fabricated culture, seeing should not always lead to believing.
GALLERIES
Mont Art House - Houston, TX
Anne Irwin Fine Art - Atlanta, GA
Design Supply - Birmingham, AL
Exhibit: Art & Object - Tulsa, OK
Tacit Collective – Toronto, Canada
EXHIBITIONS
2024 - THE AFFORDABLE ART FAIR, Austin, TX – original works with Minted
2021 – HIGH POINT MARKET, High Point, NC - art installation with Kim Scodro Interiors
2019 – ICFF, Manhattan, NY – prints featured by Minted
2017 THE ACT BUT NOT THE THING IS SACRED, solo show, The Yard @ Williamsburg, Brooklyn
EDUCATION
1996 BA in English, Harvard University, Boston, MA
2003 MA in Arts & Education, New York University, NYC