*Reception January 17, 6pm - 8pm

Altman Siegel is proud to announce, Letter to Myself (when the world is on fire) an exhibition of new paintings, drawings, and sculptures by San Francisco based artist Koak. This marks Koak's second solo exhibition with the gallery.

The artist’s signature mastery of line rendering and her complex, layered relationship to comics, character development, and gender-normative aesthetic roles are presented through an impressive new body of work. The exquisite technique Koak is known for allows her mark-making to appear beautifully effortless but is in fact the result of a rare type of generous and hand-made master craftsmanship. Three large scale paintings transform the main gallery, each featuring a figure in a window. Though no figure spills into the neighboring image, these scenes are hung to reference a singular exterior wall. Each vignette offers the viewer the ability to peer into varied moments of inquisition, awe, and fear as the subjects interact with the outside world.

Altman Siegel Gallery