Koak
Self Portrait w/ Flowers Greetings Card
£4
A blank greetings card by Koak, exclusive to House of Voltaire
Dimensions
A6
Finishing
Blank card with envelope
Courtesy the artist and Perrotin
About The Artwork
A delicate interplay of strength and fragility, this greetings card by Koak depicts a cracked vase holding a bouquet of daffodils. Some flowers are rendered in soft, pinky hues that mirror the vessel itself, others are deconstructed and linear, echoing the water streaming through the cracks and infusing the image with the emotional depth and gentle humour that imbues Koak’s paintings.
About Koak
Koak (b. 1981, USA), based in San Francisco, is known for work that portrays the complex duality of identity and human nature through a mastery of the line which extends across drawing, painting, and sculpture. Rendered with exquisite technique, her emotionally charged figures and landscapes are imbued with a profound agency and inner life. Her work challenges historical portrayals of femininity, depicting figures that shift between boldness and vulnerability, resisting fixed definition and embracing emotional depth. Regardless of subject, each piece is approached with the intimacy of portraiture, suggesting a metamorphic state – a dream of becoming something beyond the self: a body becoming a lake, a flower, or a landscape. In this way, painting becomes an act of defiance – a feminist gesture that resists enclosure, imagining identity as something fluid.