Lewis Koch
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American, born 1949
Projects/Portfolios
Bomber, a chance unwinding
Introduction
BOMBER, A CHANCE UNWINDING bears witness to a remote mountaintop World War II bomber crash site, using a variety of visual imagery, collaged from archival film footage, maps, in situ color photographs, and poetry. As an installation, a separate portfolio, and chapbook, image and text intertwine creating an elegiac metaphor as a meditation on war and its associated loss of life and environmental destruction.
Mindy Oh, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
SageParis, Paris, France
Scott Nichols Gallery, San Francisco, CA, United States
Bomber, a chance unwinding. Lewis Koch. Areness Press/ Blurb, Madison, 2011
Touchless Automatic Wonder. By Lewis Koch. Borderland Books, MADISON, 2009
Notes from the Stone-Paved Path. Lewis Koch. Parallel Press/ UW-Madison Libraries, Madison, 2003
Double Caution Totem. Photographs and Text by Lewis Koch. Nexus Press, ATLANTA, 1993
Surplus Koan Totem. Photographs and Text by Lewis Koch. Nexus Press, ATLANTA, 1993
Slender Thread Totem. Photographs by Lewis Koch. Nexus Press, ATLANTA, 1993
Sites of Southern Wisconsin: Lewis Koch, David Mandel, Michael Simon. George Talbot. Turtle Press/ SHSW, Beloit & Madison, 1981
Wisconsin Images. Michael Wm Doyle, ed. Wisconsin Arts Board, Madison, 1978
Drawing upon aspects of photography, sculpture, assemblage and text, Lewis Koch calls attention to the often unremarked upon elements of everyday life. Over the past thirty years, his work has been shown in garages, on kiosks and billboards, as well as in museums and galleries, with solo exhibitions in New York, London, Brussels, Seoul, Toronto, Chicago and Los Angeles. His work is in permanent collections throughout the United States, Canada and Europe, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Maison Européenne de la Photographie (Paris), Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe (Hamburg), Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Whitney Museum of American Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago). As an artist-in-residence at Copenhagen’s Fotografisk Center, Koch created the web project "Touchless Automatic Wonder." Located at www.photography.dk, it provides an overview of his work prior to 2001; and is also the basis for a monograph (Borderland Books, Madison, 2009) by the same title. "When Things Dream" (2006), the third installation in the artist’s Garage Trilogy, is shown on the web at www.afsnitp.dk as Garageography 3.0.7. His most recent works, "osaycanyousee" (2008) and "Bomber, a chance unwinding" (2011), present a visual narrative that critiques the globalization of conflict and endless war.
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