Koak joins Jessica Silverman

Jessica Silverman announced the representation of Koak, a Californian artist whose paintings, drawings, and sculptures explore the psychology of life, death, and desire. Koak is a Neo-Pop artist who refuses the genre's traditional ironic distance — treating popular culture not as lowbrow citation but as a serious vehicle for excavating interior lives. A virtuoso of vivid line work, Koak draws inspiration from sources as varied as European Expressionism and Japanese animation to create works filled with emotional honesty, figurative clarity, and eloquent abstraction. Jessica Silverman will feature new paintings and works on paper by Koak at EXPO Chicago, April 9-12, 2026. Her debut solo exhibition at the gallery will open in March 2027. Koak has been an exhibiting artist since she was 15 years old. A shy teenager with obsessive-compulsive disorder, Koak