Solo Exhibition, 2023 // The Pleiades Gallery, Chelsea, NYC
To be made whole by seeing and being seen.
Koch’s previous works have focussed on the female form, creating multi-dimensional playgrounds that are unbound by the female canon of ‘otherness’.
“To be made whole” breaks out of the feminine lens with a broadened approach to the subjective//objective experience. Assessing literature & visual systems from antiquity to today, Koch explores the relational nature of ‘being’, the never-ending dance between the self and the other: Whatever 'it' is that exists apart from ourselves creates us, but we also take part in creating whatever 'it' is. In this solo exhibition, Koch's visual worlds play with dimensionality, using mirrors, shadows, form and abstraction, to express the creative process that is ‘being’.
Bedtime Stories // 60 x 72 inches // Acrylic, Oil Pastel, Charcoal on Canvas // June 2023
To Be Made Whole // 20 x 30 inches // Acrylic, pencil, charcoal on canvas // March 2023
Thinking of Adulthood // 18 x 24 inches // Acrylic on Canvas // January 2022
Infinity Goes Up On Trial // 39.5 x 49.5 inches // Acrylic, Oil Pastel, Mirror, Dried Leaf, Straw, Embroidered Thread on Canvas // February 2023
Shadows, Seen // 30 x 40 inches // Acrylic, Charcoal, Dried leaves, Thread, Matches on Canvas // July 2023
To Be Any Form But Her Own // 30 x 40 inches // Acrylic, Pen on Canvas // March 2023
The Birth of the Laurel Wreath // 10 x 20 inches // Acrylic, Mirror, Collage on Canvas // June 2023
Libyan Sibyl, Revisited // 24 x 32 inches (with frame) // Pencil, Acrylic & Marker on Paper // February 2023
The Atlas of Sisyphus // 20.5 x 28.5 inches (with frame) // Acrylic, Tea-stained Paper, Oil Pastel on Poster-board // May 2023
Grasping Shadows // 14 x 18 inches // Acrylic, Pastel, Matches on Canvas on Wood Panel // May 2023
Relata Essentia // 20.5 x 28.5 inches (with frame) // Acrylic, Pen, Chalk on Paper // April 2023
Inertia // 10 x 20 inches // Acrylic, Pencil, Mirror, Thread on Canvas // April 2023