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New publication release | Mimi Plumb: The White Sky

October 30, 2020

UK publisher Stanley/Barker has released Mimi Plumb’s The White Sky monograph to raving reviews. In her early twenties, the American Photographer Mimi Plumb looked back to her Californian childhood to make a series of photographs about suburban youth. The resulting photographs collected in her new book The White Sky builds a world in which an unknown trauma hangs heavy in the air, and children rule the roost.

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Across this barren and blackened stage, Plumb casts a parade of wandering characters. Children feature prominently in this work, but also dogs, bicycles, autos, and other moving elements.

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Mimi Plumb captures the beauty of growing up in 1970s suburban California.

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Gallery artists Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb featured on Lensculture

March 24, 2020

Gallery artists Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb were featured on Lensculture, offering an inspiring look into the world of this husband and wife artist team.

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Robert Koch Gallery at The Armory Show 2020 | Pier 94, Booth 618

March 6, 2020

Among the earliest photographic images were photograms, cameraless photographs made by placing objects directly on the surface of a light-sensitized paper and exposing it to light. In the early 20th century artists inspired by abstraction began exploring new ideas using photograms to create images that expressed a daring fresh way of seeing. These experimental artists embraced the idea of chance and the photographic process’s alchemy.

From our gallery’s inception we have specialized in the avant-garde, from works by early groundbreaking practitioners in the first part of the 20th century to the present. Our booth at the Armory Show 2020 features early works from the 1930s as well as photograms by contemporary artists who carry forth the essence of experimental.

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Interview: Trent Davis Bailey

February 22, 2020

Trent Davis Bailey received the Film Photo Award in the Spring of 2019. One year later, Linda Moses checks back in with him.

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Robert Koch Gallery celebrates 40 year anniversary!

January 25, 2020

The Robert Koch Gallery’s 2019-2020 season celebrates our 40 year anniversary with exhibitions that reflect the breadth of work the gallery has exhibited and acquired during the gallery’s history. Our fall exhibition New Bauhaus in America commemorates the 100 year anniversary of the founding of the original Bauhaus school in Germany and is an example of our commitment to the avant-garde which emanated out of Europe. Italian futurism, the inceptive avant-garde movement included work by the Bragaglia brothers. The gallery currently has two exceptionally rare and significant Bragaglia photographs from 1911 and 1913 on loan to SFMOMA for their exhibition, Don’t! Photography and the Art of Mistakes.

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Robert Koch publishes New Bauhaus in America monograph

November 22, 2019

This small edition publication accompanies our current New Bauhaus in America exhibition, which is on view at the gallery through the end of November, 2019. The catalog features works included in the exhibition including works by György Kepes + László Moholy-Nagy, Arthur Siegel, M. Halberstadt, and Henry Holmes Smith with Introduction by Leland Rice.

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Gallery artist Michael Wolf passes away at age of 64

May 2, 2019

It is with great sadness that we announce the unexpected death of our longtime friend and gallery artist Michael Wolf, recognized for his work on life in cities, who passed away last Thursday at the age of 64 in his home in Cheung Chau, Hong Kong.

The Robert Koch Gallery in San Francisco, was the first gallery to represent Michael Wolf, and did so exclusively for many years, presenting Wolf’s first exhibition of his breakthrough project Architecture of Density in 2005 and later the first gallery exhibition of Transparent City in 2008. Our gallery is honored to have mounted twelve exhibitions of his work.

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Robert Koch Gallery selected by Artsy as one of the best booths at The Armory Show 2019

March 9, 2019

“In the first half of the 20th century, Hungarian artists living in their country and as expats abroad redefined what photography and images could do. László Moholy-Nagy, arguably the best known of the group, produced striking photograms, a term that he coined. The last-known photogram by the influential Bauhaus instructor, made in 1946, is on view here (and on offer for $75,000). It’s a gorgeous, supremely modern work that seems to foretell complex grayscale experiments by contemporary artists like Avery K. Singer.

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Michael Wolf Bottrop-Ebel 76 exhibition opens at The Josef Albers Museum in Germany

February 22, 2019

Michael Wolf‘s Bottrop-Ebel 76 exhibition opens at The Josef Albers Museum in Bottrop, Germany on February 24, 2019, and runs through May 19, 2019. The 1976 series focuses on life in a small coal mining village in the Ruhr District of Germany.

Gallery artist Chris Dorley-Brown’s The Corners honored with the 2018 British Book Design and Production Award

November 27, 2018

The Corners, the newest monograph by gallery artist Chris Dorley-Brown, has been honored with the 2018 British Book Design and Production Award in the Photography Book category. The Corners is published by Hoxton Mini Press, London, with design by Friederike Huber.

Brian Ulrich’s work included in This Land exhibition at Pier 24 and featured in New York Times

September 7, 2018

This Land focuses on work made throughout the United States within the past decade. The photographers assembled here examine aspects of the country’s current social climate, from the mundane to the politicized. This Land will be on view through March 31, 2019 at Pier 24 located on San Francisco’s Embarcadero.

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