Koak

Overview
Koak (b. 1981) lives and works in San Francisco. The artist Koak creates emotionally charged portraits, often of female figures, imbuing her subjects with a sense of agency and inner life to challenge patriarchal views of the feminine. Engaging hierarchies of gender as well as form, Koak interrogates commonly held cultural assumptions defining women as passive objects of desire. Drawing on the visual vocabulary of comics and often translating this into sculptural form, the exquisite technique Koak is known for allows her line-making to appear beautifully effortless, but is in fact the result of a rare type of generous and hand-made master craftsmanship.
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