Alumni
Amy Kao ’96
Kao’s drawings center on the act of mark making, focusing on pictorial construction in its most elemental form. A profusion of minuscule lines forges paths across the surface—crisscrossing, overlapping, repeating, colliding, and obliterating. These accumulated marks create a seemingly unmodulated open field, permeated by gradient color and structured by a linear grammar of interwoven warps and wefts. While ethereal in appearance, the work negotiates the tension between analog, labor-intensive processes and mechanical reproduction, reflecting on themes of replication, variation, and accretion. Her work has been exhibited widely, including institutions such as MoMA PS1, the Brooklyn Museum and the New York Public Library.
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In my drawings, densely accumulated dotted lines crisscross, overlap, and collide across the surface, forming linear patterns reminiscent of woven textiles. These marks create complex ambiguous fields in which foreground and background collapse, and presence and erasure are continually negotiated.
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