Aidan Koch
Aidan Koch
Aidan Koch
Through April 19 - Aidan Koch: Notes at City Limits. Though this was my first visit to the gallery City Limits has existed for a couple years now, first as a project operated out of artist/curator Evan Reiser's home in San Francisco and now as a beautiful light-filled space near Jack London Square in Oakland co-run by Alyssa Block. The gallery specifically encourages artists and curators to show work that is different than their usual practice, and in this case Aidan Koch has pushed beyond linear narrative into a mesmerizing stream of consciousness. Small drawings and paintings are arranged on a table's surface with ceramic sculptures placed on top, and her references include the human body, landscape and nature, and more abstracted forms. Koch has created a number of other lovely moments around the gallery space, and she also worked with Portland's Publication Studio to print an exhibition catalogue that contains images from the show as well as writings that serve as rough-hewn sketches in text:
Light shifting over the valley. The atmosphere flattening the hills and trees, denying depth, fog masking the colors: homogeneity of tone.
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