Lined and Torn: Paper Works from the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art Collection

Born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1977, Branden Koch is a multidisciplinary artist known particularly for his acute politically satiric and emotive autobiographical works on paper which investigates 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 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.

Branden earned a BFA from The Cleveland Institute of Art in 2001, and an MFA from The Milton Avery School of the Visual Arts at Bard College in 2005. His work has been exhibited widely (such as Regina Rex and Soloway Gallery, NY; Romer Young Gallery, San Francisco, CA; and High Energy Constructs, Los Angeles, CA), reviewed, and published in several online and print publications.