Mokha

Laget

 

Mokha Laget was born in Algeria, North Africa and lives in
Santa Fe in the American Southwest. These experiences shaped her ambiguous sense of space, oscillating between an impossibly distant horizon and the looming object before us. Shapes are simultaneously near and far, distant and immediate.In the cloudless simmering desert midday, are we looking at real space or a planar image of it.
Mokha spent four years as the studio assistant to Gene Davis, the Washington Color School painter best known for his paintings of vertical stripes. She studied his work both
as an undergraduate at Princeton and as a graduate student
at Harvard.