The soft-spoken, small-scale art invites viewers in for a bite-size interaction with these impressive pieces, all of which contribute to a larger theme. The gallery layout allows you to look at your own relationship to viewing and consuming artwork because of the nontraditional viewing experience. Park View is symbiotically related to Koch’s enchanting pieces. The unique space is a fully operational gallery running on a miniature scale in the most intimate of ways because you are continuously aware of the idea of this public yet private art-viewing experience. This disparity is heightened by the exhibit’s specific venue: Park View, a 300-square-foot apartment/gallery hybrid in Los Angeles’s Echo Park neighborhood. But this divergence is quintessential to Koch’s creative bravery, as demonstrated by her new show, Aidan Koch: A to Zed. Artwork this soft and delicate runs the risk of being overlooked in an assertive large city like Los Angeles, and to embrace the simple words “pencil on paper” is unusual in our time of mega installations and larger-than-life art-entertainment experiences. The smooth surfaces of her orderly pencil-on-paper drawings and small-scale sculptures are echoed by her delicate fabrications, which instill feelings of a story while leaving enough room for viewers to formulate their own experiences among her pieces. LOS ANGELES - Aidan Koch’s minimalist storytelling is as soft as it is powerful. Aidan Koch: A to Zed, installation view (photo by Jeff McLane, courtesy of Park View)
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