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
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
allucinatory 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
OCTOBER 2022
Exhibition
Heavy Light
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.
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