Antonia Kuo
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This striking contemporary artwork features a striking contrast between the industrial and natural elements. The composition is dominated by a large, weathered wooden panel that takes up the majority of the frame, its surface worn and textured. Surrounding this central element are layers of mesh-like grids and hazy, atmospheric backgrounds, creating a sense of depth and juxtaposition. The overall visual style is a combination of raw, industrial materials and the subtle, organic patterns of nature, reflecting the artist's exploration of the relationship between the man-made and the natural world. This piece invites the viewer to contemplate the interplay between these opposing forces and the passage of time. ...
Antonia Kuo
Antonia Kuo’s practice centers around recording, image-making, and the potential of the photographic medium. Kuo creates her own intensive processes by which images and materials can be alchemically transformed. She often merges formal elements based on industrial materials and machine parts with intuitively-derived natural forms and gestures. In her unique “photochemical paintings” she utilizes light-sensitive paper and photochemistry to capture light, time and mark making, collapsing her drawing and painting practice with photographic materiality. Compound images are built up over multiple layers and remain tethered to some markers of representation, but ultimately coalesce into an interpretative field of entropic energies and phenomena. Like her photochemical works, Kuo’s sculptures serve as recordings of forms that are lost, obscured, and only partially remembered. ...
Antonia Kuo: Artworks
Commonwealth and Council
Los Angeles, Mexico CityCommonwealth and Council is a gallery in Koreatown, Los Angeles founded in 2010. Our program is rooted in our commitment to explore how a community of artists can sustain our co-existence through generosity and hospitality. Commonwealth and Council celebrates our manifold identities and experiences through the shared dialogue of art—championing practices by women, queer, POC, and our ally artists to build counter-histories that reflect our individual and collective realities. ...