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Eunkang Koh

Curated by Josh Galarza

A copperplate etching featuring anthropomorphic quails running with colorfully striped beachballs on a teal background. The background is colored by aquatint and the beachball stripes are colored with chine-colle.
Run, Quail, Run, Etching, 2022
A copperplate etching featuring anthropomorphic emu mingling with colorful ice pops. The background is blue aquatint and the ice pops are colored with collagraph.
Emu Pop Ice Pop, Etching 2021
A a blue and green copperplate etching featuring farm animals with anthropomorphic features dancing with whole and sliced limes. The background and limes are colored with chine-colle.
Lime Squeeze Boogi-Woogi, Etching, 2021
A copperplate etching of anthropomorphic chickens running around with strawberries. The background is a forest green aquatint and the strawberries are colored red with collagraph.
Very Berry Strawberry, Etching, 2022
A gallery installation of hundreds of black and white, relief-printed, soft-sculpture eyes, some hanging and others attached the the gallery wall in a cluster.
Watching, Installation, 2021
A gallery installation of hundreds of black and white, relief-printed, soft-sculpture eyes, some hanging and others attached the the gallery wall in a cluster.
Watching, Installation, 2021
A sepia-colored copperplate etching of wild animal heads and a single human head on popsicle sticks.
Popsicle Full of Heads, Etching, 2019
A multicolor copperplate etching featuring several tuna tins pulled open to reveal various anthropomorphic animals. One tin reveals a human figure. The background is a blue hued aquatint.
You Are What You Eat, Etching, 2020
A copperplate etching in hues of sepia featuring various animal heads and one human head packaged under celophane like meat in a grocery store. The background is aquatinted and some animals are colored with a layer of collagraph or chine-colle.
Gold Surprise, Etching, 2020
Nine soft-sculpture ice cream cones alluding to vaginas and made of various fabrics, pompoms, beads and accessories. Some of the fabrics are screen printed with patterns.
Vagina Ice Creams, Mixed Media, 2023
A tray of soft-sculpture doughnuts made from various fabrics, pompoms and accessories. Some fabrics are screen printed with patterned designs. The tray is attached to a gallery wall beneath white plaster casts of fingers and hands in obscene gestures.
Doughnut Dreams, Mixed Media, 2021
A colorful pile of several dozen soft-sculpture ice cream cones alluding to vaginas and made of various fabrics, pompoms, beads and accessories. Some of the fabrics are screen printed with patterns.
Vagina Ice Creams, Mixed Media, 2023
An accordion bound artist book featuring colorful relief printed doughnuts and black and white relief printed humans and animals, each salivating over or reaching for the doughnuts.
Doughnut Dreams, Artist Book, 2023

Wavy lines denoting a space break.

Contributor's Notes

Josh Galarza, lead art editor, is a second-year MFA student in fiction and creative nonfiction at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is the author of The Great Cool Ranch Dorito in the Sky (Henry Holt and Company, 2024). His creative nonfiction has appeared in FOLIO and elsewhere. He holds a BFA in art and a BA in English from the University of Nevada, Reno, and is a multidisciplinary visual artist specializing in printmaking, book arts, and sculpture.

Photo of Eunkang Koh.

Eunkang Koh

Eunkang Koh is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily in printmaking, book arts, drawing, painting, and installation. Her work, which addresses social phenomena in contemporary consumerist society, is regularly exhibited internationally. Koh holds a B.F.A. from Hong-Ik University in Seoul, South Korea, and an M.F.A. from California State University, Long Beach. She is represented by Melhop Gallery and Central Booking NYC, and is an associate professor of art at the University of Nevada, Reno, where she teaches printmaking and drawing.

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