Exhibition "Aidan Koch:Tides and Trees" at 14a Gallery

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Exhibition "Aidan Koch:Tides and Trees" at 14a Gallery
Aidan Koch, Tides on Earlin I, 2022, soft pastel on paper, 32 × 42 inches, 81.3 × 106.7 cm.



HAMBURG.- 14a14a has shared an overview of Aidan Koch’s exhibition "Tides and Trees", which opened at the gallery November 29th. The exhibition will be on view through January 28th, 2023.

The profound desire for friendship and identification with wild animals and the craving to touch them and to share their aliveness is eventually lost, but at the imprinting stage it is experienced with almost painful intensity.

"Tides and Trees" explores childhood encounters with the natural world and how they shape our perception of the environment. Koch, who lives and works in Landers, California, in the Mojave Desert, pulls from images and memories of Olympia, Washington, where she grew up.

Through the lenses of conservation and wilding, including ‘shifting baseline’ theory (Frans Vera), the exhibition considers our changing sense of the landscape’s natural or wild state. Koch writes:

Childhood experiences and memory not only shape attention toward the natural world; they set a baseline for how that world is seen over time. While these encounters can spur us to examine, critique, and act towards preservation of the environment, they can also skew how we define ‘normal’ or ‘desired’ landscapes, affecting how land is managed and how species are valued by communities and individuals. Still, while memory is an imperfect starting point, it’s essential in holding emotional space for the nonhuman world and cataloging change (folk memory) for future generations.

Across drawing, sculpture, writing, and animation, Koch conjures the intricate beauty of the Pacific Northwest coast, probing the details she remembers, as well as the gaps.

Large-scale pastels in saturated hues capture a robust ecosystem of species, from twisting Himalayan blackberry vines to broad-leafed madrone trees.




A series of intaglio prints consider our instinctive urge to touch wildlife. Held beings—an adopted squirrel, a smooth shell—are doubly embraced by sculptural, hugging frames.

In the hand-drawn animation Frog Girl, a person crawls on all fours, in tune with their animal self through play and imagination.

The exhibition also features works by [Name], Koch’s mother, tracing a lineage of care for animals and creative engagement with materials from nature that has been passed down through generations.

Throughout Koch’s wide ranging, multimodal practice is the artist’s intricate and skillful narrative weft, which links human and non-human timescales. Imbued with a naturalist’s close observation and a strong graphic sense of sequence and relation, the works here recalibrate our attention to biologic and geologic rhythms–from the ebb and flow of tides at the Budd Inlet to the diphasic call of the Pacific chorus frog. Attuned to the perspectives of nonhuman lives and landscapes, they cut to the heart of the artist’s practice: exploring the existential tensions of coexistence.

~ Text written by Chantal McStay

The Artist
Aidan Koch (*1988 in Seattle, Washington, USA, lives and works in Flanders, California). Koch received her BFA in Illustration from the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon and graduated from Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver, B.C. in 2022.

Solo and group exhibitions include: Sara two, Hester, New York, NY (2015) [G]; Olympia, Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris, France (2016) [G]; Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905-2016, The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY (2016) [G]; Iris, Signal Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2016) [S]; A to Zed, Park View, Los Angeles, CA (2017) [S]; In Search of, Transmitter, Brooklyn, NY (2017) [G]; Love among the butterflies, 14A, Hamburg, Germany (2018) [S]; Narrative Architectures, 45 National Salon of Artists, Centro Colombo Americano, Bogota, Colombia (2019) [G]; No Longer, Not Yet, Essex Flowers, New York, NY (2020) [G]; Always put the rock back, Paul Soto, Los Angeles, CA (2020) [S]; Moonshot, Hearth Garage, Toronto, ON (2021) [G].

Publications include Frog, 2022; Man Made Lake, Kuš, 2020; La Espiral, AIA Ediciones and Ediciones Valientes, 2020. The psychic said ‘Blossoming,’ NOOM books, 2017; Daughter, Kuš, 2016; After Nothing Comes, Koyama Press, ed. Bill Kartalopolous, 2016; Little Angels, MoMA PS1, GNY Series, 2016; Heavenly Seas, The Paris Review, 2015; Impressions, Peradam Press, 2014; The Hylaeus Project, Publication Studio, 2013; Field Studies, Floating World Comics, 2012; The Blonde Woman, self published with support from the Xeric Foundation, 2012; The WHALE, Gaze, 2010.










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