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Aunia Kahn
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Biography
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Aunia Kahn is a hybrid mixed media artist, photographer, musician, writer and freelance designer born in Detroit, MI.
In creating she most often times uses herself as a way to stay one hundred percent connected to her emotions, views and personal history that affects her artwork. She builds characters, non-existent places, and dreams about them, executes them, and lets them breathe their own life in the visual world. Kahn's work deals deeply with woman's issues and is seen as a voice against domestic violence, and spousal abuse.
Although Kahn has been creative at some level all her life, her career, as an artist did not officially start till January 2005 when she exhibited for the first time. With the support and receptivity to her outspoken subject matter she has taken the world by storm with a schedule of 124+ exhibitions/events from 2005 - 2008, where her work as been seen in MO, IL, TX, CA, VA, FL, DC, MA, MI, CO, GA, TN, PA, France and Canada. Some of the places she has exhibited are the Mitchell Museum, The St. Louis Artists' Guild, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, San Diego Art Institute, Cpop Gallery.
Aunia has been featured and/or interviewed nationally and internationally by publications such as REFUSED Magazine, Crawling Tunes Magazine (Germany), SNAP Magazine (UK), Forbidden Whispers Magazine (UK), Juxtapoz on line, Celebrity Artist Michael Bell Radio Show and many others. In 2007 Le Bourgeois Vineyards featured her work "Rousing the Whirlwind" on a collectors series of wine bottles, and in 2005 she won the top award in graphics at the Mitchell Museum.
Kahn is presently working on publishing poetry/art book, her 78-card tarot deck "Silver Era Tarot", collaborating with director Wolfgang Lehmkuhl on the dark storybook "Dante Dahl", she is a producer on the feature film "The Dead and the Dreaming", currently directing and curating an annual exhibition "Darkest Dreams a Lighted Way" in the light of abused people, she is one of the 8 voices who are the spokes woman for the "Voices Love Music Tour" which supports victims of domestic violence and spousal abuse, and is working on her solo music project "AfterChain" getting ready for a 2008 release of her CD Single "Void" as well as being a part of many other ventures that constantly pull at her creative motivation.
Aunia now resides in Illinois where she spends her free time with her 4 German Shepard dogs and 2 black cats in a little house on a hill.
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Statement
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Self taught in the arts, I have been engaging in some form of art/expression since I can remember.
I claim my inspiration from pure emotions; powerful and oftentimes personal, ranging from love, anger, betrayal and the scores in-between. I feel honoring the human soul, spirit and determination wholeheartedly breathes life into my creations and my hope is that the images and expressions fuel the desire for life and walk a path of their own through each of my viewer's interpretations.
I feel that as I continue to evolve and explore the human spirit with flights and pursuits I gain new ground in my motivation to create my own world. I spend a majority of my time continuing my mostly self-taught artistic endeavors and maintaining and growing in skills, not only with my artist brush, but through my need to express my life and feelings though music, performance, design and writing.
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Exhibitions
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Artist: Chris Korteweg
