Branden Koch
Stationary Front #1, 2011
Ink, gouache, watercolor on paper
Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art Collection
Gift of the artist
2016.07.003

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. Faced with the absurd turmoil of contemporary life, Branden responds with vigorous drawings, paintings, and sculptures; they are materially driven visualizations of the nervous system, walking a hi/low tightrope between cartoon and abstraction, a viscerally cosmic and cerebrally guttural aggregate.

Item description: An abstract painting done with navy lines on cream paper, resembling the upper body of a masculine figure boxed in by flying lines and cockade-like scribbles, shirtless with their left arm dangling off their side. Going upward diagonally across the drawing is a string of patterns alternating between red down-facing arrows and blue up-facing half-circles.