Jonah Koppel uses markers, Wite-Out and leopard-print screen tone to tap the greasy fluids of his subconscious onto the pages of a small sketchbook. Displayed on hinges to emphasize that dreams know no front or back, and with the cinematic framing of a graphic novel but no overarching story, the intensely worked drawings, all untitled and less than six inches high, include screaming mouths, transsexual rock singers, purple skies, obsessive shading, pendulous breasts, leashes and whips, serpentine penises, lightning, slavering, nunchucks, eye patches, a ghastly orange Mt. Rushmore, an American flag with a peace sign in the canton, and a pharaoh playing the electric guitar. Read More
The New York Observer / Gallerist
Jonah Koppel at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery
By Will Heinrich
December 3, 2013