PN.KO.24.04
Koak
Nancy in Blue
Archival pigment print
Image: 11 ⅞ x 9 ½ in / 30.16 x 24.13 cm
Paper: 14 ½ x 11 ¾ in / 36.83 x 29.85 cm
Edition of 10, with only 4 made available to the public
Printed on Moab Entrada Rag Bright 300 paper
Printed in San Francisco CA by the artist and Penalty
Each print is hand-signed, titled, and numbered by the artist
Koak
Nancy in Blue
Archival pigment print
Image: 11 ⅞ x 9 ½ in / 30.16 x 24.13 cm
Paper: 14 ½ x 11 ¾ in / 36.83 x 29.85 cm
Edition of 10, with only 4 made available to the public
Printed on Moab Entrada Rag Bright 300 paper
Printed in San Francisco CA by the artist and Penalty
Each print is hand-signed, titled, and numbered by the artist
We are pleased to offer a print from the artist’s private collected; a version of the painting Nancy in Blue from Koak’s 2024 exhibition,
Lake Margrethe, at Perrotin Paris. Ten of these prints were created and gifted to the aritst’s family, with the remaining four made available to the public.
“The exhibition offers multiple entry points into Koak’s work. The energy emanating from its forms and colors is immediately palpable. Trained in the visual literary medium of Comics, Koak has brought into the field of painting the communicative power of the line, which she likens to ‘a sense of language that runs across my practice (through drawing, painting, and sculpture), one that’s tone or intonation can shift dramatically with the slightest shift in curve or weight.’ Less discernible in the works is the autobiographical subtext of the exhibition with its discreet representations of familial and intergenerational relationships. Koak describes it as ‘the most personal exhibition I’ve created in a long time,’ emphasizing the deep and intimate connection she has with the works. For several paintings in the exhibition, she evoked her own family ties and memories, portraying them in inscrutably varying degrees of detail and abstraction, such as in the three “window portraits” featuring her grandmother (Nancy in Blue), her mother (Carmine), and Koak herself (Self Portrait from a Green Window).“
-Perrotin
Exhibition views of 'Lake Margrethe' by Koak at Perrotin Paris, 2024. Photo: Claire Dorn. Courtesy of the artist and Perrotin
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