Brian Kokoska
Beige Infinity
January 14 – February 25
Opening reception Saturday January 14, 6-9pm

Blanket is pleased to present Beige Infinity, a solo exhibition of new paintings by New York based artist Brian Kokoska. A palette all together garish, gloomy and vivid elaborates a simultaneity of figurative and pictorial elements in which figures seem tied down, trapped or forced to pose, but are mystifyingly true to life.

Kokoska's modestly scaled oil paintings explore the surreal, the fantastical, but are at the same time an uncanny reflection of youth culture; its underlying tension and its chaotic, distracted language. Darkly jubilant figurative images amalgamate with abstracted, layered elements depicting scenes of unnamed ritual and fetish. Steeped in both the history of painting, and of costume, mask, and performance, implicit throughout the work is a sense of whimsy with an emphasis on decorations and adornments; headgear, hairstyles, flowers, and other embellishments.

Brian Kokoska (b. 1988, Vancouver) is a Canadian artist based in New York. Beige Infinity is the artist’s first solo exhibition with Blanket and in Canada. He received his BFA from Emily Carr University of Art and Design in 2010. His paintings have been featured in artUS (Los Angeles), V (New York), Beautiful/Decay (Los Angeles), Carousel (Toronto), and Piana (Kraków). Recent exhibitions include NADA Art Fair Miami Beach with Blanket, Nothingness and Being Skinny, Black Cubicle Toilet Gallery, Celeste House, Mexico City, Dependent Art Fair with Silvershed in New York, and The Hand of a Stranger, Shudder Gallery, Vancouver. Additionally his book project Chiclet Teeth was exhibited at MoMA PS1 with White Columns for The NY Art Book Fair. Upcoming solo shows are to be held at Preteen Gallery, Mexico City, Styx Projects, Hamburg/Berlin, a two-person show at Vox Populi, Philadelphia, and a group installation at Art Amsterdam 2012.


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