Five Animations

at Picture Room, New York, NY
October 2023

WORKS AVAILABLE HERE

These works represent a selection of animations Koch created over the last seven years, and recontextualized in this exhibition act as companion pieces to a central video animation Chaparral, a Muybridge-esque soft pastel drawing of a horse as it gallops in place atop a printed tapestry.

The show speaks to Koch’s interest in animation as a vehicle for introducing a sense of time and liveliness into her drawing practice. Their form implicitly enforces ideas of sequencing and storytelling, and relates to the comics and written narratives that are central to her work. As a majority of the pieces are extracted from the context in which they are originally shown, the drawings in Five Animations are exhibited as specimens in their own right, foregrounding the care and detail that goes into the craft of hand-drawn animations.