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Bio: Lily Koch was born and raised in San Francisco and received a BFA from Mills College in 2023 with a focus on ceramics. She recently had her first solo exhibition in the Adobe Books Gallery.
Statement: Interdisciplinary artist Lily Koch thinks of herself as an archivist of imagery. In her recent paintings, she explores what is revealed when one continues to seek out and return to a certain visual motif. She is interested in the intersection between figurative and abstract, memory and dream, interior and exterior and the reality that emerges from opposing truths existing at once. By obfuscating and layering vaguely familiar snapshots, Koch invites the viewer to employ personal association to direct the narrative; the resulting revelation acting as a sort of mirror.