A Nation of One
“For Kahlhamer, the Lower East Side of the ‘80s and ’90s was the place to be. “ You might run into any one - actors, m, artists, designers. It was easy to meet people doing all kinds if amazing work,” Kahlhamer recalls. “It was a place that not only accepted, but welcomed difference.” Kahlhamer’s work fits such a scene, combining ancestral talismans, pop culture flourishes, and punk music sensibilities, all infused with creative and personal influences drawn from both a life lived and a life unknown. “It makes sense, to me, to present an ‘impure’ kind of artwork. I don’t know to be easily categorized or identified. It’s okay for the work to be a mix of influences and styles,” he says.
Elisabeth Ginsberg, Minnesota Museum of Art, ”A Nation of One”, Spring 2018
