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Koak — Stillness
Koak — Stillness
Koak

Stillness

2019

Stillness, produced by the San Francisco-based artist Koak in 2019, presents the spare, quietly unsettling figuration that has made her work among the most sought-after in contemporary drawing and print. Rendered in lithograph in colours on Somerset wove paper, the composition distills Koak's signature visual language into a compact format of 37.5 by 27.5 centimetres, where simplified forms and a restrained palette generate an atmosphere of suspended time. The choice of Somerset wove as a support lends the surface a softness that suits the meditative mood, allowing the lithographic inks to settle with a warmth and depth not easily achieved on more clinical substrates. Koak, who works across drawing, painting, and printmaking, has attracted sustained critical attention for figures that feel at once intimate and estranged, familiar archetypes held in states of psychological ambiguity. Stillness exemplifies this quality, its title functioning less as description than as provocation, inviting the viewer to consider what stillness conceals as much as what it reveals. The edition is limited to just twenty impressions, each numbered verso, and this example carries the artist's signature, confirming its place within a tightly controlled body of multiples that rarely appears on the secondary market. For collectors building a holdings of works on paper with genuine conceptual weight, this print represents a rare and well-proportioned entry point into Koak's printed output.

Medium
Lithograph in colours on Somerset wove
Sheet
Signed
Yes

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Koak, Stillness, 2019

Stillness, produced by the San Francisco-based artist Koak in 2019, presents the spare, quietly unsettling figuration that has made her work among the most sought-after in contemporary drawing and print. Rendered in lithograph in colours on Somerset wove paper, the composition distills Koak's signature visual language into a compact format of 37.5 by 27.5 centimetres, where simplified forms and a restrained palette generate an atmosphere of suspended time. The choice of Somerset wove as a support lends the surface a softness that suits the meditative mood, allowing the lithographic inks to settle with a warmth and depth not easily achieved on more clinical substrates. Koak, who works across drawing, painting, and printmaking, has attracted sustained critical attention for figures that feel at once intimate and estranged, familiar archetypes held in states of psychological ambiguity. Stillness exemplifies this quality, its title functioning less as description than as provocation, inviting the viewer to consider what stillness conceals as much as what it reveals. The edition is limited to just twenty impressions, each numbered verso, and this example carries the artist's signature, confirming its place within a tightly controlled body of multiples that rarely appears on the secondary market. For collectors building a holdings of works on paper with genuine conceptual weight, this print represents a rare and well-proportioned entry point into Koak's printed output.

Medium
Lithograph in colours on Somerset wove
Dimensions
sheet: 37.5 x 27.5 cm
Year
2019
Edition
of 20
Signed
Hand-signed by the artist
Seen at
Chiswick Auctions, London, United Kingdom

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