These pieces allow us to sit with the ideas of these varied cultural connections we have with animals. Another piece that highlights the peculiar way animal integration is entwined with our lives is “Cobra’s Basket,” for which Koch spent time learning the art of basket-weaving. The floor around the installation is littered with feathers, leaving us with only a slight ghostly memory of the bond. Here, Koch has replicated a hawk stand in “Perch” by fabricating and sculpting each component to imitate ones traditionally used for falconry, an ancient discipline that trains birds of prey to hunt for the benefit of humans. One of these relationships is furthered in a small side gallery - aka the closet. The show operates as a broken-apart comic with a story of relationships told through its objects and its curious yet quiet pieces of paper.Īiden Koch, “Perch” (2017), wood, leather, string, hardware, 5.75 x 17.75 x 41.25 in The soft-spoken, small-scale art invites viewers in for a bite-size interaction with these impressive pieces, all of which contribute to a larger theme. The gallery layout allows you to look at your own relationship to viewing and consuming artwork because of the nontraditional viewing experience. Park View is symbiotically related to Koch’s enchanting pieces. The unique space is a fully operational gallery running on a miniature scale in the most intimate of ways because you are continuously aware of the idea of this public yet private art-viewing experience. This disparity is heightened by the exhibit’s specific venue: Park View, a 300-square-foot apartment/gallery hybrid in Los Angeles’s Echo Park neighborhood. But this divergence is quintessential to Koch’s creative bravery, as demonstrated by her new show, Aidan Koch: A to Zed. Artwork this soft and delicate runs the risk of being overlooked in an assertive large city like Los Angeles, and to embrace the simple words “pencil on paper” is unusual in our time of mega installations and larger-than-life art-entertainment experiences. The smooth surfaces of her orderly pencil-on-paper drawings and small-scale sculptures are echoed by her delicate fabrications, which instill feelings of a story while leaving enough room for viewers to formulate their own experiences among her pieces. LOS ANGELES - Aidan Koch’s minimalist storytelling is as soft as it is powerful. Aidan Koch: A to Zed, installation view (photo by Jeff McLane, courtesy of Park View)
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