Kinke Kooi: the flower and her inner focus21 November - 22 December 2013    > past   > artist page

For me, in a strange way, decoration has to do with making connections. That’s why I fill in spaces in between: to dissolve opposition. To be overwhelmed by nature is to dissolve into a bigger whole. It is an inclusive situation, which for me is the same as a domestic situation.

Inviting strangers into your house can create complications. It is the same with ideas: to be open to new information also creates complications. I have always been suspicious of purity. Purity discriminates. Purity is about exclusion rather than inclusion. When one is open to guests and new ideas, it interrupts one’s autonomy. I like that thought. I want to promote hospitality.
I don’t think anybody is entirely male or entirely female. Maybe that is why I like gradients—one thing bleeding into another thing. When I was young I sometimes felt more like a male; when I had my children I became more female. Now, with menopause, I am more male again. I love this element of change.

I believe things should be allowed to mix. After I had my daughter I became more interested than ever in the images that she would see in her lifetime. I was shocked by how one-dimensional images of women still are in our culture. I call that visual loneliness. I think femininity still deserves and needs to be visualized from more perspectives. I would like to fill in these gaps in our visual information.—Kinke Kooi, November 2013

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space space The Flower and Her Inner Focus 4, 2013; acrylic paint, graphite, colored pencil on paper; 40 x 26.25”; $ 7,500 space The Flower and Her Inner Focus 4, 2013 (detail) space Art and Science, 2013; acrylic paint, graphite on paper; 15 x 10.5”; $ 4,500 space The Flower and Her Inner Focus 3, 2013; acrylic paint, graphite,
colored pencil on paper; 53.75 x 53.75”; $ 20,000
space installation view space When Things Get Tense, 2013; acrylic paint, graphite, colored pencil on paper; 40 x 26.25”; $ 7,500 space When Things Get Tense, 2013 (detail) space The Flower and Her Inner Focus 5, 2013; acrylic paint, graphite, colored pencil on paper; 40 x 26.25”; $ 7,500 space The Flower and Her Inner Focus 5, 2013 (detail) space Support 1, 2013; acrylic paint, graphite, colored pencil on paper; 15 x 11.5”; $ 4,500 space installation view space Be Precise, 2013; acrylic paint, graphite, colored pencil, conté crayon on paper; 18 x 24”;  $ 6,000. space Be Precise, 2013 (detail) space Meditation on Gravity, 2013; acrylic paint, graphite, collage on paper; 40 x 26”; $ 7,500 space Meditation on Gravity, 2013 (detail) space Gravity 3, 2013; acrylic paint, graphite on paper;
34 x 26.25”;$ 7,250
space. Gravity 3, 2013 (detail) space. Under the Surface 2, 2012; acrylic paint, graphite, ink on paper; 40.25 x 26”; $ 7,500 space Under the Surface 2, 2012 (detail) space Installation View space Pickings, 2009; acrylic paint, gouache, marker, pencil on paper; 7.75 x 15”; $2,000 space Family, 2003; scratched color photograph mounted on aluminum panel; 19.75 x 28”; $ 7,000 space Family, 2003 (detail) space Hygene, 2013; acrylic paint, graphite, gouache, collage, cotton swabs on paper;
13 x 7.25”; $ 2,000
space Measuring is Knowing, 2010; acrylic paint, ink, graphite, colored pencil on paper; 37.5 x 26”; $ 7,500 space Measuring is Knowing, 2010 (detail) space Lazy Bum, 2009; graphite, acrylic paint on paper; 4.5 x 10”; $ 1,500. space Seeds on the Rocks, 2009; graphite on paper; 5.75 x 5.75” space Female Bigness, 2013; collage; 11.875 x 11.375”; $ 2,000 space Impression, 2013; acrylic paint, graphite, gouache on paper; 6 x 7.75”; $1,500 space Searching for Recognition, 2013; acrylic paint, graphite,
colored pencil on paper; 6.25 x 6”; $1,200
space Inner Focus, 2013; acrylic paint, colored pencil, graphite, gouache on paper; 7.75 x 6”; $ 1,500 space Support 2, 2012; acrylic paint, graphite, colored pencil on paper; 40 x 26.25”; $ 7,500 space Support 2, 2012 (detail) space installation view space
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