HEAVY LIGHT
a solo exhibition by Branden Koch
a solo exhibition by Branden Koch
For Immediate Release | October 1, 2022
Bunker Projects is thrilled to announce HEAVY LIGHT, an exhibition of new paintings, drawings, and animations by Branden Koch on view in our galleries October-December 2022. Download Press Release
Bunker Projects is thrilled to announce HEAVY LIGHT, an exhibition of new paintings, drawings, and animations by Branden Koch on view in our galleries October-December 2022. Download Press Release
Hallucinatory and contemplative, HEAVY LIGHT draws from symbolic images of star or flower-like forms, black holes, and skeletal figures. This collection of prominent works by Branden Koch carries his inventive approach to the painted surface and encoded symbology. This solo exhibition includes a dynamic selection of large scale paintings, drawings, and animations made with charcoal, oil, sand, and salt. Many areas of research including political history, and science fiction inform the artist’s work at large as well as material relationships and personal experience. “Light does not have a measurable mass, but its significance creates a kind of cultural and personal weight,” he says. “Light has also always been one of the main concerns of American Painting. I integrate sand and salt into my paintings because they are complex materials that convey change or stability over time. Depending on how they behave: a million grains of sand disperse as particles of light over a surface, or an aggregate cosmos binding together as in a mortar or concrete. Salt is necessary for life and for the transmission of nerve impulses in the body, which are akin to electricity or light.”
The alchemist, the miner, and the gardener are all at work in this exhibition, casting a multifaceted vision that is veiled and primordial. This exhibition taps into the bewildering feelings of experiencing the mind and body moving through space and time." -Jessie Rommelt, Creative Director, Bunker Projects
The alchemist, the miner, and the gardener are all at work in this exhibition, casting a multifaceted vision that is veiled and primordial. This exhibition taps into the bewildering feelings of experiencing the mind and body moving through space and time." -Jessie Rommelt, Creative Director, Bunker Projects
Large format photographs by Stephen Joyce | September, 2022
Artist Bio
The work of Branden Koch is known for its acute and emotive investigations into the complex cultural and political systems that structure our lives and experiences. His drawings and paintings are materially driven visualizations of the nervous system, walking a hi/low tightrope between cartoon and abstraction, a viscerally cosmic and cerebrally guttural aggregate.
Branden's work has been exhibited nationally. Most recently, his work has been featured in the publication Shifter #25 "Waiting," Cover illustration for Jeremy Hoevenaar’s “Our Insolvency” Published by Goilas Books, "Bloken Exhaust," a chapbook of poetry and illustrations made in collaboration with John Yau and Ink Cap Press, NYC. His Drawings and poetry have been featured in Hyperallergic Magazine's column "Drawing in a Time of Fear and Lies," Fields Magazine, Shifter Magazine, The Open Day Book, The Plague Review by Rotland Press, as well as several self-published books and zines. His work has been reviewed in Hyperallergic, The Brooklyn Rail, ArtSlant, The Chicago Sun Times, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, Artillery Magazine, and Las Vegas Weekly.
Branden currently lives in Pittsburgh, PA with his family, where he co-founded Dot and Line Art Studio, an art educational initiative for children and adults with his wife and partner Kate Gugliotta.
The artist would like to thank Interlude Artist Residency in Hudson Valley, NY: an inclusionary residency program designed to give artist parents the time and space to create works included in this exhibition. The Artist would also like to thank Bunker Projects, Jessica Rommelt, Anna Mirzayan, Kate Gugliotta, Edward P. Steck, Fungus Books, Maria Dumlao, Chris Forsyth, Alisha Kerlin: Executive Director of The Marjorie Barrick Museum, LV, NV., and The Sustainable Arts Foundation. This Exhibition is supported by The Heinz Endowments.
Bunker Projects is a nonprofit artist residency and experimental gallery in Pittsburgh, PA that serves as a platform for emerging artists to develop their practice and create new works for exhibition.
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Preview Reception: Friday October 14th, 5-8 PM
Public Reception: Friday November 4th, 6-9 PM Artist Talk: Sunday November 6th, 2-3:30 PM Closing Reception: Friday December 9th, 5-8 PM Open Gallery: Thursdays 4-6 PM | Sunday 12-2 PM + By Appointment For more information or to make an appt. contact Jessie Rommelt here |
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