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Romer Young Gallery

September 18 - October 17, 2009

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1240 22nd Street San Francisco, CA 94107
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Valet Study for Tajes, oil on canvas, 18" x 22", 2009
Opening Reception: Friday, September 18th, 6:00 - 9:00pm Ping Pong Gallery is pleased to present Branden Koch’s first solo exhibition with the gallery entitled Valet. The opening reception will take place on September 18th from 6-9 PM and the exhibition will be on view through October 16th. Branden Koch uses painting to mine a conflicted and immense cultural landscape; unveiling a profoundly visceral world where personal experiences, such as dreams, the physical architecture of the artist’s studio, and the gamut of art history all collapse into a technicolor lexicon of unlikely and humorous relations. For his fifth solo show Koch will display eight new oil paintings as an interactive tableaux provoking the viewer's curiosity and involvement. Koch's paintings are raw and scrappy, intentionally imbued with a slow vibrant honesty. Distorted images of friends and lovers, self-portraits and fields of shattered and stained color dissolve and rearrange fleeting moments of looking and being. Simultaneously familiar and alien, Koch's work aims to confront the contemporary trends and dogmas of interpretation, resisting and yet retaining a distinct life of its own. About the Artist: Branden Koch was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He has had solo exhibitions at High Energy Constructs (Los Angeles CA), The Harwood Art Center (Albuquerque, NM), Rowland Contemporary (Chicago, IL), as well as several group shows in NYC and Cleveland, Ohio. Branden also curates "One Night Stand" group exhibitions in his Brooklyn apartment. He received his MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College and a BFA in painting from The Cleveland Institute of Art.