Samuel W. Kho likes to share his thoughts about contemporary art, and occasionally through writing. As a graduate student in the Art Market at FIT-SUNY, Sam in 2006 curated the very idiosyncratic Breaking the Skin, an exhibition sponsored by International Arts Movement at NCGV.
Sam has had many interesting art-related roles. Once he helped open the first U.S. gallery for a major Asian art firm. More recently, Sam happily co-directed a Los Angeles project space (un)known for launching a young art star or two. Perhaps to him, art, like life, is like cactus: it ought to be thorny just as it could be beautiful. His next mission is to find partners for an art gallery that gathers a dangerously prickly assortment of people, classes, and beliefs.
The latest CIVA exhibition, called “I Am Not a Machine”, acts as a fitting follow-up for those curious about Christian belief and new art practices.
As the Beast, complete with yarn-covered shirt, nose painted black, black socks for gloves, I proceed to have a somewhat choreographed fight with The Odd Lamb.
For the trophy wife, the revolutionary, the avant-garde artist, salons have always been about standing up to the status quo.