Kobi Walsh

For me, all subjects exist as fluid, their surfaces ever-changing by way of variations in light, time, and perspective. Through my sculptural and photographic work, created entirely without digital manipulation, I aim to highlight the unique combinations of these factors that give life and soul to the surrounding atmosphere and to the present moment. At the core of my work I explore how these variables along with the differences in our subjective perspective define the unique feelings we associate with a subject.

Beginning with the empirical and analytical observation of light, my pieces remove defining characteristics of commonplace subjects, attempting to disassociate their conventional identity. My work instead focuses on the unseen subject: a momentary subjective trigger of memory, emotion, and feeling produced by changes in light, time, and color.

While appearing at first glance abstract, my works are meant in fact to be representational, but to represent a reality beyond immediate impressions; to create rather a fuller, and more authentic, visual experience of a subject. That experience transcends the visual, and therefore requires an approach that, while remaining representational and unmanipulated, through its alter...

Tufts University | Medford, MA | 2017
- Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Université Vincennes-Saint-Denis (Paris VIII) | Paris, FR | 2015
- Behavioral Neurobiology (Neurobiologie des comportements)

Tufts University European Center | Talloires, FR | 2014
- Product Design and Development

2021 May 6 - 9, The Other Art Fair Brooklyn | Brooklyn, NY*

2021 Dates TBA due to COVID, The Other Art Fair Chicago | Chicago, IL*

2021 Dates TBA due to COVID, Superfine! Art Fair Seattle | Seattle, WA*

2020 October 22, 4th Annual Art for Life Chicago 2020 Juried Virtual Exhibition & Auction | Chicago, IL

2020 April 14 - 24, Laval Virtual | Laval, France* (POSTPONED DUE TO COVID)

2020 March 7 - 15, “Arte e Donna” Museo Diocesano di Terni | Terni, Italy

2020 Feb 25 - March 14, 30 Under 30 Exhibition “Director’s Choice Award,” Viridian Artists Gallery | New York, NY

2019 Nov 6 - 12, “Salon Show,” Greenpoint Gallery | New York, NY

2017 Apr 20 - May 5, “Utopia/Dystopia”, Polykhroma | Boston, Massachusetts

2016 Feb 5 - Feb 21, “Borders”, Polykhroma | Boston, Massachusetts

2015 10th annual Black & White Spider Awards Photoshow

2015 10th annual Black & White Spider Awards Photoshow

2013 Lisa Art Show, Chicago, Illinois

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