For Koch: “Painting operates within a series of contradicting engagements, functioning in between the antagonistic and the docile: always in a state of process. Notions of continuity are forgotten as a perceived world folds into a multiplicity of direction. Within these momentary situations lie potential responsive structures of which I use to generate works aimed at challenging the proficiencies found within the inherent traditions of painting.”

Inspired by the disparate approaches of artists such as, Martin Kippenberger and Simon Hantai, as well as the poetic subjectivity in the work of David Salle, Koch is hyper-aware: distilling knowledge from a process of improvisational cadence. Working from his own photographs and observational drawings, Koch’s work develops a complex dance towards unfixing the expectations of a visual language, questioning the spaces between the observed, the imagined, and the factual; as looking blurs its own vision, escaping en-route to another place.


About the Artist:

Branden Koch received his MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College and a BFA in painting from The Cleveland Institute of Art. He has also studied abroad at the Edinburgh College of Art, in Scotland. Branden currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Discorporate is his first solo exhibition.

Arthur’s Seat

Head #3 (after Schenkel)

Face

Splice