NEW YORK, NY – Chelsea’s Agora Gallery will feature the original work of Erin Cooke in Spatial Fluidity. The exhibition opens April 1, 2017 and runs through April 21, 2017 with an opening reception on Thursday, April 6 from 6-8 pm.
Erin Cooke’s spirited abstract paintings hum with activity. Cooke works in acrylic on a large scale, with some works as many as six feet across. She plays with color, sometimes choosing a range to work in warm tones, earth tones, even monotone and sometimes allowing a sunny rainbow palette to explode across the canvas. Within her chosen limits, she explores contrast and teases subtleties out of each color.
Cooke’s work is reminiscent of Jackson Pollock’s for its physicality and its scale, but her pattern work is all her own. She creates intricate layers, with the kind of minute detail one sees in hyper-realistic pieces. Her brushstrokes are seemingly innumerable, and can be either completely free-form or tightly herded into a pattern. They appear in every form, from streak to dab to spike. The depth Cooke creates from repeated marks is incredible. It creates an abstract landscape for the eye to move in and out of.
Cooke was born in Chicago, and today lives in Seattle. She has exhibited all around the United States, and is also a physician.
Exhibition Dates: April 1, 2017 – April 21, 2017
Reception: Thursday, April 6, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Gallery Hours: Tues-Sat 11:00am – 6:00pm
Gallery Location: 530 West 25th St, Chelsea, New York
Event URL: http://www.agora-gallery.com/artistpage/Erin_Cooke.aspx
Featured Artists:
Spatial Fluidity
Sheree Friedman | Erin Cooke | Pedro Alberti | Nello Petrucci | Isabelita | Annika Carlsson | GIDJA | Ian A. Matthews | Birsen Yurdaer
About the Exhibition
Spatial Fluidity: Interacting With Art
Some of the most innovative artists working outside the picture place will come together this April at Agora Gallery in Spatial Fluidity, a new collective exhibition. A celebration of three-dimensionality in all its forms, Spatial Fluidity interrogates how a piece of art should exist in the world. Is it purely a visual entity? Does it enter the viewer's space? Is it static or does it change as the viewer moves?
The exhibition includes nine artists. There is a wide range of mixed-media work, ranging from pieces that are subtly textured to canvases that forcefully protrude and recede into so-called "real" space. There are collages that intermingle newspaper clippings and photographs, or defy expectations by coating everything in a reflective glaze. There are also single-media paintings that emphasize the physical aspects of their material, such as the plastic quality of acrylic. Much of the art is abstract, so that the viewer may focus on broader visual sensations rather than put together three-dimensionality with a representational narrative.
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