RAY KOH

RAY KOH is a 4 year old California based artist and filmmaker who uses drone technologies to forage what he terms as “wild content.” Drones allow Koh to conceptually draw, paint, and sculpt using a mixture of aerial cinematography combined with traditional photography in order to yield a new type of fine art. However, unlike most drone enthusiasts, Koh works more akin to an archaeologist where his brush is more an eraser that removes unnecessary elements so that only extracted subject-matter remains. While his methodology begins with aerial photography, the actual creative process involves removing elements rather than adding. Koh’s work focuses on primordial artistic concepts such as portraiture, still life, abstracts and materiality to convey deeper contemporary issues. More than ever, Koh believes that we must deal with the ramifications of technologies that accelerate our lives into nearly unsustainable speeds. With the increasing hyper saturation of digital content, the dumbing down of ourselves, our own de-programming into automation, how do we rise above this relentless ebb and flow? How do we create a new American art that reconciles the loss of the original to mechanical reproduction (i.e.photography, film) in favour of new subject-matter? These are some of the issues that his work attempts to resolves through creative mediation. Koh is a 5-time winner of the Creative Quarterly Journal for Fine Art. WEB: www.raykoh.com IG: @nomakase

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Title: Big Sur Lightening

Medium: Archival Pigment Print

Date: 2020

Edition 1

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Title: Big Sur Ocean Hides (VEGAN)

Medium: Archival Pigment Print

Date: 2020

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Title: Circle | Rectangle

Medium: Archival Pigment Print

Date: 2019

Edition 3

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Title: Last Night in Los Angeles

Medium: Archival Pigment Print

Date: 2019

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Title: The Heart of Chinatown in San Francisco

Medium: Archival Pigment Print

Date: 2019

Edition 3

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Title: The Heart of Chinatown in San Francisco

Medium: Archival Pigment Print

Date: 2019

Edition 3

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Title: Last Night in Chinatown (SF)

Medium: Archival Pigment Print

Date: 2019

Edition 3

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Title: Resting Man in Chinatown

Medium: Archival Pigment Print

Date: 2019

Edition 3

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Title: I Found My Heart in San Francisco

Medium: Archival Pigment Print

Date: 2019

Edition 3

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Note: It’s impossible to escape the omnipresence of #WayneThiebaud in #SF so why not learn from what he was doing. In my version, I focused on drawing lines using local ingredients. Also using the topography of the hill, I was able to create a plinth which establishes a foreground and background structure in the picture plane. The new horizon line also creates a moment of anticipation between the two.The divergent yellow lines are mirrored in the background lines which are spatially distinguished by the pole beyond. What’s so significant about the mirrored line movements? Because #RosalindKrauss taught how redundancy creates meaning (via Pablo Picasso).

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Title: Broken Glass, Tape, Column

Medium: Archival Pigment Print

Date: 2019

Edition 3

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Title: American Flag

Medium: Archival Pigment Print

Date: 2019

Edition 3

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Title: Know Your Farmer (Chinatown SF) Medium: Archival Pigment Print Date: 2019 Edition 3 www.raykoh.com IG: @nomakase

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Title: Yun’s Kitchen (Chinatown SF)

Medium: Archival Pigment Print

Date: 2019

Edition 3

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Title: Bowl of Water

Medium: Archival Pigment Print

Date: 2019

Edition 10

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Title: IRE Extinguisher

Medium: Archival Pigment Print

Date: 2019

Edition 3

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Title: Self Portrait

Medium: Archival Pigment Print

Date: 2019

Edition 3

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Title: San Francisco

Medium: Archival Pigment Print

Date: 2019

Edition 3

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