Morning Chocolate Cake II, 2023
Medium

Oil Paint


Dimensions

76.2 x 60.96 cm


Year Created

2023

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Small < 80cm
Portrait orientation
Painting
Representational
Dreamlike
Still life

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Tchotchke Gallery is proud to present North Carolina-based Debora Koo’s debut New York solo exhibition, entitled With Sugar on Top. Through sweet depictions of the artist’s most notable pregnancy cravings, a humorous side of fast-approaching parenthood is depicted in this new body of work. Created during the height of her prenatal cravings, the artist inadvertently depicts a culinary throughline between her current phase of life and that of her childhood. According to Koo, “At first, I thought chocolate milk and waffles were random but they were very much connected to my childhood. This led me down a path of recalling and reflecting on my younger years and wondering about my child's own forthcoming experiences. While these paintings do not reflect everything about my younger self, they do pinpoint odd, humorous, and even my fondest observations I have made as I look back now during this important stage in my life.” By creating these works and cementing them in history, the artist hopes to be able to share these memories with her child one day in the future. Thus, with a tinge of nostalgia and a heap of excitement for the future, Koo paints a widely-felt, yet under-recognized, sentiment. A celebration of the present, With Sugar on Top, serves as the artist’s step over the threshold and embracement of motherhood.

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@deborakoo on October 20 2023, 6:05pm UTC
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$2,450 USD - Ask

@deborakoo on April 11 2023, 4:34pm UTC

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Koo’s oil paintings encompass a wide range of subject matters and styles. However, if there is one thread that pulls her work together it is the idea of responding to and expressing emotions and experiences through painting. She draws inspiration from mundane events, media, human desire, motivation, apathy, and helplessness. The banality of the images depicted, sometimes in bright, saturated colors and other times faded and pale, become surrogate self-portraits, memories, and hopeful futures. This can take the form of a carefully staged still life representing identity, appropriated media images of idealized love and romantic relationships, or food that can give a sense of belonging, physical satisfaction, or contrarily an invitation for discomfort and sweet temptations.

Curriculum Vitae

Born in 1990 in Seoul, South Korea. Currently residing in Charlotte, North Carolina .

Education
2017 · Ewha Womans University

MFA

2013 · Smith College

B.A. Studio Art: Painting

Solo Exhibitions
Jun 1, 2022

Sweet

Feb 1, 2019

Solo Exhibitio

2023

With Sugar on Top

2017

Crossing Boundaries

May 1, 2021

Selected Paintings

Group Exhibitions
Jun 1, 2022

Sweet

Feb 1, 2019

Solo Exhibitio

2023

With Sugar on Top

2017

Crossing Boundaries

May 1, 2021

Selected Paintings

Selected Press
Jan 23, 2024

Create! Magaine Issue 43

Jun 1, 2022

New American Paintings Issue 160 South

Mar 24, 2023

Peggy Artist Spotlight

Jan 1, 2024

Friend of Artist Magazine Volume 19

Apr 11, 2021

Booooooom Magazine

Teaching Experiences
Jan 1, 2019

Present Full-time Faculty, Art & Design, Rowan-Cabarrus Community College, Salisbury, NC

Jan 1, 2018

Adjunct Faculty, Art & Design, Rowan-Cabarrus Community College, Salisbury, NC

Jan 1, 2018

Adjunct Faculty, Art, Wingate University, Wingate, NC

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