"Miracle Island"

K. K. Kozik’s realistic paintings depict prosaic scenes—swans gliding across a pond, a country lane, a hedgerow of forsythia—made extraordinary through the artist’s bold use of color and offbeat perspectives. The world that Kozik inhabits is the same one the rest of us inhabit; her’s is just a fiercely focused edit, removing the extraneous details and enlivening what remains with the hot fire of idiosyncratic consciousness.