Artist Post #9: Spring Semester
Monday, April 4, 2011
Lewis Koch
Bio: Lewis Koch was born in 1949 in New York, New York but now lives in Madison, Wisconsin. He got his BA in History from Beloit College and then entered the Concerned Photography (ICP) Program at NYU in 1971. He has had numerous solo exhibitions at colleges, galleries, and museums around the country since 1978. He has also participated in a good number of environmental installations around the country ranging from 1982 to 1998. Koch has a huge amount of permanent collections and has won a whole list of grant awards and fellowships to continue his art making.
Relation: In the late 1970s, Koch began working with the idea of "found text." He was drawn to the idea that these written themes, often cynical and mysterious, are found out there in our daily lives, in the ordinary world, but are often overlooked. He uses his photography to draw attention to these areas and these sometimes cryptic pieces of text. I have been looking at artists who use text in their photography all semester and most of them have added text to existing photographs. Koch, on the other hand, uses found text AS his photographs which is a really interesting idea to me.
Quotes:
“I like seeing things and I like words. There is something revelatory about the two together, an almost pentecostal feeling of seeing in tongues.”
Source:
http://www.eyecurious.com/review-lewis-koch-touchless-automatic-wonder/
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