Rat Love Cat, 2006, 200 × 151 cm
Garden, 2008, 200,5 × 198,5 cm
Brown haired nurse, 2008, 152 × 256 cm
Untitled, , , 153 × 123 cm
Bugs, 2006, 193 × 166 cm
Untitled, 1998, 100 × 70 cm
Wall (#37 of 38), 1997, 29 × 21 cm
Mothereturn, 1998, 29,7 × 21 cm
It's a we hate ya world..., 1997, 115 × 88 cm
From the series Suicide Girl 30 of 37, 1996, 27 × 21 cm
girl named 6 -teen (#9 of 38), 1997, 29 × 21 cm
From the series Suicide Girl 1 of 37, 1996, 27 × 21 cm
connected kids (color), 1994, 29,7 × 21 cm
Christ, 1990, 29,7 × 21 cm
a girl called Dirty Little Jacket (#3 of 38), 1997, 29 × 21 cm
a boy named Deth Doug (#19 of 38), 1997, 29 × 21 cm
a boy called Mess (#33 of 38), 1997, 29 × 21 cm
03:10, 2007, 61 × 48 cm
a girl named Come-on, 1998, 70 × 50 cm
Some futures are forbidden Kit..., 1996, 50,7 × 40,5 cm
Untitled, 1991, 43 × 35,5 cm
youth forse (#16 of 38), 1997, 27 × 21 cm
Ladyman, 1989, 27,9 × 21,5 cm
Lenard, 1989, 27,9 × 21,5 cm
Louise Mandich, 1989, 27,9 × 21,5 cm
Car crash, 1993, 28 × 21,6 cm
a boy called Truck (#21 of 38), 1997, 27 × 21 cm
670-1410, 1993, 28 × 21,6 cm
A.C., 1989, 28 × 21,5 cm
S.B., 1989, 28 × 21,6 cm
Warren, 1989, 28 × 21,5 cm
Wheel chairs and arrows, 1993, 29,7 × 21 cm
From the series Suicide Girl 25 of 37 (1 / ), 1996, 27 × 21 cm
From the series Suicide Girl 22 of 37, 1996, 27 × 21 cm
From the series Suicide Girl 11 of 37, 1996, 27 × 21 cm
Douglas Kolk, born in 1963 in Newark, USA, died in 2014
Douglas Kolk’s work revolves around questions of identity, initially in small format drawings and then later in large format works and collages. Figures appear to be restlessly searching for a sense of self. In his drawings, influenced by Pop Art and the current torrent of media images, he emphatically succeeds in expressing human vulnerability, human depth and extreme psychological states. In doing so, in his small and medium formats he works to create a striking, yet restrained visual language through a focused reduction of the forms, lines and colours in which – similar to Raymond Pettibon - sentences, like fragments of thoughts, are integrated so they can be perpetuated by the viewer, enabling them to steer the represented situation in another direction. In the new large format collages and sculptures Kolk’s articulation has become more expressive.
Douglas Kolk’s work revolves around questions of identity, initially in small format drawings and then later in large format works and collages. Figures appear to be restlessly searching for a sense of self. In his drawings, influenced by Pop Art and the current torrent of media images, he emphatically succeeds in expressing human vulnerability, human depth and extreme psychological states. In doing so, in his small and medium formats he works to create a striking, yet restrained visual language through a focused reduction of the forms, lines and colours in which – similar to Raymond Pettibon - sentences, like fragments of thoughts, are integrated so they can be perpetuated by the viewer, enabling them to steer the represented situation in another direction. In the new large format collages and sculptures Kolk’s articulation has become more expressive.
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