Installation images from our current exhibition featuring Gina Beavers & Devin Troy Strother are now online.

To view more installations shots please visit this link.

The exhibition continues at the gallery until June 29, 2013.

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Gallery artist Georgia Dickie has a small feature in Flare Magazine.

Georgia Dickie, 23, creates art out of found objects—rather menacing found objects. A strip of metal perched on a hockey puck looks like a snake about to strike, while the rusty old propeller lurks under a stack of metal objects. “By arranging combinations of objects, I attempt to describe the present moment,” Dickie says. “I engage in a continuous process of moving things around, building things up and taking things down, dismantling, rearranging, walking away and then revisiting.”

To see the full article please visite Flare Magazine.

For more information about Georgia Dickie please contact the gallery.

Installation images from Jeremy Jansen’s current exhibition are now online.

To view more installations shots please visit this link.

The exhibition continues at the COOPER COLE Richmond St. until June 24, 2013.

COOPER COLE
777 Richmond Street West
2nd Floor
Monday, Friday, and Saturday: 12pm-4pm, and by appointment.

COOPER COLE acknowledges the generous support of Johnson Trading Gallery with this project.

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Gallery artist Maya Hayuk recently completed a mural in Koln, Germany. This mural was completed as part of the Cityleaks Festival.

For more information about Maya Hayuk please contact the gallery.

Gallery artist Sara Cwynar was recently profiled on Port Magazine’s website.

“Drawing from her personal archive of objects, photographs, catalogues and props, for Canadian artist Sara Cwynar the personal and the professional overlap in a myriad of intense and individual ways.

Using her interests – a fascination with the kitsch; Derrida; impulse to hoard; the natural world; food photography – Cwynar creates visually arresting images in her Brooklyn flat that act as a microcosm for wider cultural commentary. Cwynar, who featured in Print Magazine’s “20 Under 30 New Visual Artists for 2011”, explains the evolution of her art, from her sting of early Cindy Sherman-type portraits, and why for her, the commercial can feed the conceptual with more than just money.”

To see the full interview please visit Port Magazine’s website.

For more information about Sara Cwynar please contact the gallery.

Gallery artist Sara Cwynar is the featured cover artist for the latest issue of Brooklyn-based The L Magazine.

Below is an interview published with Cwynar, to see the full article please visit The L Magazine online.

Where can we see your work this next year?
I will be in a group exhibition at the Camera Club of New York that opens May 30th.
And I’m preparing for a solo show at my gallery in Canada, Cooper Cole Gallery for September.

What neighborhood do you live in?
Greenpoint.

How do you start a new project?
I am a massive hoarder so I usually start by going through my personal archive. Often I will begin from a source image that I’ve saved, and re-examine it or rework it somehow. Right now I’m really interested in old stock food photography, camera manuals, and vanitas paintings.



Do you have a studio routine?
I only recently left my day job so I’m still working that one out. Usually I try to start fresh and read something relevant or make work for at least three hours at the start of the day until everything else starts getting in the way. It is pretty random though, often I will make a piece in massive full day marathons when I feel ready to go and then be less productive for a while. 



Is there an artist or exhibition that’s had an especially significant impact on your development recently?
I really loved Letha Wilson’s recent exhibition at Art in General.

Do you have any advice for other young artists?
I think it’s important to not think too much about what other people are doing in relation to your own work, to pull influences from places other than the contemporary art world. It is easy to fall into doing stuff because it looks a certain way when it doesn’t mean anything to you. And it can be hard to avoid this when you’re struggling. Also I think half of it is just convincing yourself it isn’t bullshit all the time and embracing that as a real, constant part is important.



Is there another medium or style of work that you’d like to explore or have started to experiment with?
I have been doing a lot of installation work lately and I’m pretty excited about it. I had a wall built to install on for my last show and it looked like a shrine to found images and everyday objects. To me it was really beautiful. I think there is a lot of potential in the everyday and in discarded materials to break out of the sleek imagery that surrounds us all the time in our lives. 



How do you describe your work to your parents?
Reworkings of photographic tropes as new still life pictures or installations. My parents are very supportive though they possibly think I’m a bit insane!

For more information about Sara Cwynar please contact the gallery.

June 7 – June 29, 2013

Opening reception: Friday June 7, 2013 / 6 – 10pm.

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What You Want
Curated by Matthew Leifheit

May 30 – June 29, 2013
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 30, 6-8pm

Featuring:
Thomas Albdorf
Raphael Cohen
Sara Cwynar
Bobby Doherty
Trey Wright

Curated by Matthew Leifheit as part of CCNY’s Guest Curators Program, this exhibition presents five visually indulgent approaches to the contemporary photographic still life. Embracing humor with dazzling color and brilliant light, these emerging artists test boundaries between the studio and the natural word, blending broad strokes between the two. These still lives present the artists’ desires objectified and reconfigured to be universally relatable. In them, disparate banal objects are combined with abandon in order to create visual pleasure. Here is What You Want.

A limited edition exhibition catalog will be available for purchase at the opening reception for $10. The catalog features a cover illustration by Ole Tillmann and includes an introductory poem by Paul Legault.

Sara Cwynar will be having a solo exhibition in Toronto this coming September.

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Gallery artist Maya Hayuk recently completed a mural on the exterior and released two silkscreen editions through UK based print publisher Pictures on Walls.

These editions are likely to sell out fast so follow this link to grab a copy while you can.

If you are interested in original works from Maya please contact the gallery.

June 1 – June 24, 2013

COOPER COLE
777 Richmond Street West, 2nd Floor

Opening reception: Saturday June 1, 2013 / 3 – 6pm.

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COOPER COLE is pleased to announce a second exhibition space opening at 777 Richmond Street West (at Niagara Street).

This offsite space will compliment the existing programming at our Dundas Street location, and feature exhibitions from gallery represented artists as well as projects from invited collaborators.

The initial schedule will feature solo exhibitions from the following artists.

Jeremy Jansen
June 1 – June 24, 2013

Andrea Pinheiro
June 29 – July 22, 2013

Brad Tinmouth
August 10 – September 2, 2013

Georgia Dickie
September 13 – October 7, 2013

COOPER COLE
777 Richmond Street West
2nd Floor
Monday, Friday, and Saturday: 12pm-4pm, and by appointment.

COOPER COLE acknowledges the generous support of Johnson Trading Gallery with this project.

To view more installations shots please visit this link.

The exhibition continues at the gallery until May 25, 2013.

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To view more installations shots please visit this link.

The exhibition continues at the gallery until May 25, 2013.

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COOPER COLE at NADA New York 2013 presenting works from gallery artists Georgia Dickie and Lauren Luloff.

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COOPER COLE is pleased to announce our participation in NADA New York.

The gallery will be exhibiting the works of Georgia Dickie and Lauren Luloff. Please visit us at Booth 607.

NADA New York – May 10-12, 2013
Pier 36 – Basketball City | 299 South St. New York, NY 10002
(the corner of South St. & Montgomery St. on the East River)

May 1 – May 25, 2013

Opening reception: Wednesday May 1, 2013 / 6 – 10pm.

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May 1 – May 28, 2013

Opening reception: Wednesday May 1, 2013 / 6 – 10pm

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To view more installations shots please visit this link.

The exhibition continues at the gallery until April 27, 2013.

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Gallery artist Sara Cwynar was featured on Sleek Magazine’s website.

“Hoarding – as anybody who’s ever filed away old receipts or napkins with scribbles on will know, is an addictive tendency. Once you’ve started documenting, scrapbooking and filing away, who’s to say where you should stop? For Canadian artist Sara Cwynar, the desire to hoard, a compulsion with collection, lies at the root of her work as an artist. For the installation Everything in the Studio (Destroyed), showing as part of the Young Talent programme at Foam Gallery, Cwynar took all the objects out of her studio at one given point, documenting each one and reconstituting it so it would fit in one corner of the room. The resulting exhibition is a colourful candy-coloured collection of lost objects, where traditional vanitas imagery mixes with the sheen of shiny plastic, a rotting piece of fruit, a plastic skull. But the memories are also bittersweet, and make me think of Don Draper’s comment in Mad Men, when pitching a Kodak Carousel: “Nostalgia – it’s delicate, but potent. Teddy told me that in Greek nostalgia literally means “the pain from an old wound.” It’s a twinge in your heart far more powerful than memory alone. This device isn’t a spaceship, it’s a time machine. It goes backwards, and forwards… it takes us to a place where we ache to go again”.

Draper’s description of nostalgia fits well with Cwynar’s archiving tendencies. It charts a wish to go back in time, and find something that was lost. Cwynar builds her own personal record through objects gleaned from flea markets, images and photos picked out from encyclopaedias and objects snuck out from skips. Through the process of accumulation, she explores its function in constituting personal memories, and the way in which these images move around, circulating through different hands, in different ways. She explains her interest as a desire to explore “the ways in which we understand the world through images: how we view ourselves and our history through a shared image-based archive built from cultural fantasies and photographic tropes”. Is she a compulsive hoarder, then? “Collecting, taking and re-composing images in my art practice is both a means of satisfying a constant impulse I have to hoard and save things, and a means of breaking into the constant image landscape that surrounds me, grabbing a small piece of the world and reconstituting it under my own terms”. Once the first installation of Everything in the Studio (Destroyed) was completed, Cwynar forced herself to destroy it, and come to terms with her compulsive hoarding tendencies. That’s definitely one way to do it.

Internet culture, and the way in which you can comically juxtapose the ordinary with the extraordinary, is another influence at play in her work. The internet creates (or maybe recreates) a new image-world. Cwynar observes that, “consumer culture and the internet have helped to create an image-world that exists on top of the real world and has in many ways subsumed it – and the possibility of finding ways out of this system by appropriating and messing with many of its tropes, using vernacular, throwaway materials and outdated imagery, to question the consensus of what is worth taking a picture of, and the glossy surface of so much that we see”.

Andy Warhol’s dislike of nostalgia (he put everything in labelled boxes and stored it away in New Jersey, eventually chucking it all out) is a critical reference point in the exhibition. Yet while professing a discomfort with the concept, Cwynar’s work still carries a particularly nostalgic aura, seemingly harking back to 1970s photographic techniques. I asked if this was intentional, and Cwynar replied: “Yes, my photos and the colour values and modes of production are definitely consciously nostalgic. In my work I am working through my nostalgia both by constantly documenting everything with a camera and constantly collecting materials and objects – it satisfies a need to grab onto a bit of the world that will last, making an external record of experience. Warhol says he hates nostalgia but by acknowledging this he is saying that he actually is very nostalgic, he just can’t help it and wishes he wasn’t. This is how I feel too”. Nostalgia reminds us of the pain of past memories, encouraging us to hold on to the past. Thankfully, Cwynar’s also looking to the future.”

- Sophia Satchell-Baeza

To see the full post please visit Sleek Magazine.

For more information about Sara Cwynar please contact the gallery.

Gallery artist Sara Cwynar is featured in the current issue of Magenta Magazine.

“Brooklyn-based Canadian Sara Cwynar’s photographs are informed by her collecting habits and propelled by her love of documentation. For the “Colour Studies” series (2012), Cwynar has accumulated a mass of objects and honours her “hoarding” obsession through the photographs, which read like still life arrangements, or images from catalogues or advertising. Cwynar composes her photographs in pleasing displays that are very personal, yet easy to relate to. Her acute attention to detail holds power on a micro scale yet, when looking at these compositions, the viewer feels a specific pull. In these photographs, relationships between items are highlighted, but the work is most concerned with colour. Cwynar neatly displays her understanding of aesthetics, meticulously organizing the noise of our material world.

Cwynar is a graduate of York University, and has exhibited her photos and installations internationally at The Magenta Flash Forward Festival (Toronto and Boston) Foam Photography Museum (Amsterdam), Ed Varie and Printed Matter (New York), Paul Petro Special Projects (Toronto) and the Royal College of Art (London, U.K.). Her work has been featured in The New York Times Magazine, 01 Magazine, and Bad Day. She was listed as one of Print magazine’s “20 Under 30 New Visual Artists for 2011”. Cwynar is represented by COOPER COLE in Toronto.”

To see the full article please visit Magenta online.

For more information about Sara Cwynar please contact the gallery.

Juxtapoz Magazine recently featured Tessar Sebastian Lo on their website.

“Toronto-based Tessar Lo has a unique expressionistic style reminiscent of Basquiat or Anthony Lister. His dreamy, motion-filled paintings represent fragments of some free-flowing consciousness. Lo’s works draw energy from the visual language of children’s drawings, mysticism, symbols and totems. We love being able to see the artist’s hand so vividly in the strokes and lines of these dynamic, deeply engaging works.”

To see the full post please visit Juxtapoz Magazine.

April 18 – April 27, 2013

Opening reception: Thursday April 18, 2013 / 6 – 10pm

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Gallery artist Sara Cwynar was featured on fashion magazine We Are Selecters.

“Canadian photographer, artist and graphic designer, Sara Cwynar (b. 1985) combines photographic images with installations, collages and sculptures. She has a constant need to collect photographs, objects and all kinds of ephemera, which she then re-arranges and documents. Sara currently lives and works in New York.

For the installation, ‘Everything in the Studio (Destroyed)’, which is being exhibited at Foam 3h as part of the young talent program me of Foam, Sara Cwynar took all of the materials in her studio at one time, documented each items and arranged it into a digital plan where she could fit the entire contents into a corner of the gallery.

Sara attempted to install the archive according to the plan, which quickly began to fall apart as images and objects were not how she had remembered them. She left the materials for a month, then destroyed the whole thing, … so that she would be forced to purge the archive – allowing herself to start anew, and documenting everything only with a camera.

All that remains of this studio’s worth of materials is the image. ‘Everything in the Studio (Destroyed)’ by Sara Cwynar can be seen until 16th of May 2013 at Foam. An exhibition made possible by Van Bijlevelt Stichting and the Gieskes-Strijbis Fund.”

To see the full post please visit We Are Selecters.

For more information about Sara Cwynar please contact the gallery.

COOPER COLE is pleased to announce that the gallery now represents Canadian photographer Andrea Pinheiro.

Andrea Pinheiro (b. 1982, Canada) is an artist and curator working in photography, print, mixed media, paint, video and installation. She has exhibited across Canada and internationally. Recent exhibitions include Its All Gone Pear Shaped at Open Studio in Toronto, Bomb Book at Presentation House Gallery, and the Canadian Digital Print exhibition at the Novosibirsk Graphic Art Triennial, (Russia) and Not Photographs, a two-person exhibition with Damien Moppett at Satellite Gallery in Vancouver. She has completed a residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts and a curatorial residency at the Helen Pitt Gallery in Vancouver. She completed a Diploma of Studio Art at White Mountain Academy of the Arts in Elliot Lake, and a Masters of Fine Arts at the University of Alberta. She is currently an Assistant Professor at Algoma University in Sault Ste. Marie, ON where she is also the director of 180 Projects, an experimental exhibition space.

Andrea Pinheiro / Chamber 7 (Windowsill) / Lightjet print / 48″ x 60″ / 2011

To see a full selection works please visit Pinheiro’s artist profile.

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COOPER COLE recently exhibited at the Volta Art Fair in New York presenting works from gallery artist Ryan Wallace.

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Installation images from out current exhibition Mark DeLong & Joseph Hart are now online.

To view more installations shots please visit this link.

The exhibition continues at the gallery until March 28, 2013.

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Sara Cwynar has a solo exhibition opening at the Foam Photography Museum in Amsterdam later this month.

From the press release:

For the installation, Everything in the Studio (Destroyed), which will be presented at Foam 3h as part of the young talent programme of Foam, Sara Cwynar took all of the materials in her studio at one time, documented each item and arranged it into a digital plan where she could fit the entire contents into a corner of the gallery. She attempted to install the archive according to the plan, which quickly began to fall apart as images and objects were not how she had remembered them. She left the materials for a month, then destroyed the whole thing so that she would be forced to purge the archive – allowing herself to start anew, and documenting everything only with a camera. All that remains of this studio’s worth of materials is the image.

The piece begins with a text by Andy Warhol where he explains that he “hates nostalgia” so rather than keeping any of his saved mementos and ephemera around, he puts everything in labeled boxes and stores it in New Jersey before eventually throwing it away. He doesn’t want to live with his saved materials but he can’t immediately discard them either. This project is Sara Cwynar’s version of that idea: that the influence of an archive on an art practice is strong, but can also be overwhelming.

Sara Cwynar
Everything in the Studio (Destroyed)
Foam Photography Museum
Amsterdam, Netherlands
22 March – May 16, 2013

To see the full press release please visit the Foam Photography Museum.

For more information about Sara Cwynar and available works please contact the gallery.

Gallery artist Geoff McFetridge is featured in an exhibition at the Walker Art Center, titled Graphic Design: Now in Production. McFetridge was also commissioned to install a film-strip inspired mural on the construction fence that encircles the Walker Art Centre.

Geoff also gave a fantastic lecture which can be viewed below.

For more images of McFetridge’s exhibition please visit the Walker Art Centre.

A preview of Ryan Wallace’s studio in preparation for VOLTA.

VOLTA NY
March 7 – 10, 2013
82 Mercer St.
New York, NY

Gallery artist Georgia Dickie will be presenting several works in an upcoming group show at Battat Contemporary in Montreal.

From the gallery press release:

The title of this exhibition is symbolic of both the development in three young artists’ practices as well as the ability of these artists to acknowledge the balance of the material and immaterial that defines the aesthetic in their work. Through the layering of paint, the arrangement of objects or the grouping of canvases, each of these artists bring elements of assemblage into their practice; the given materials become an undefined system of interchangeable parts.

For more information about Georgia Dickie please contact the gallery.

Gallery artist Marc Bell was recently featured in a fashion editorial in the March edition of Esquire UK.

Shot by Bela Borsodi, the photographer combined parts of Bell’s drawings with luxury items. Other artists to participate are Basil Wolverton and Rick Griffin. If you are in the UK make sure to grab yourself a copy of Esquire to see the full spread.

February 28 – March 28, 2013

Opening reception: Thursday February 28, 2013 / 6 – 10pm / facebook

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Please visit us at Booth 1.26

We will be presenting a solo exhibition by gallery artist Ryan Wallace.

Ryan Wallace / Omega Point (Silver 12.12) / Mixed media on canvas / 48″ x 48″ / 2012

VOLTA NY
March 7 – 10, 2013
82 Mercer St.
New York, NY

The current exhibition Static & Scrim continues at the gallery until February 23, 2013.

Static & Scrim

Glen Baldridge
Colby Bird
Patrick Brennan
David Kennedy Cutler
Sam Moyer
Sara Greenberger Rafferty
Ryan Wallace

To view more installations shots please visit this link.

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Gallery artist Jen Stark was recently featured on Live Fast Magazine.

“A rising star on the global contemporary arts scene, her unique technique and her mastery of color and geometry fascinate. No wonder her intricate sculptural work – so hypnotic and colorful – has caught the attention of critics and collectors alike. You have to see it to believe it.”

See the full post here.

For more information about available works from Stark please contact the gallery.

Static & Scrim

Glen Baldridge
Colby Bird
Patrick Brennan
David Kennedy Cutler
Sam Moyer
Sara Greenberger Rafferty
Ryan Wallace

January 31, 2013 – February 23, 2013

Opening reception: Thursday January 31, 2012 / 6 – 10pm / facebook

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Gallery artist Georgia Dickie was recently featured in Artinfo Canada’s top 30 under 30 list.

“Georgia Dickie, 23, is an artist. She received her BFA from OCAD and has exhibited at Nudashank Gallery in Baltimore, MD; Toronto’s MKG127, Erin Stump Projects; the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, and the Oakville Galleries. In February 2013, Dickie will be participating in the Soi Fischer Thematic Residency Program with the artist, Artie Vierkant. She is currently represented by Cooper Cole and will exhibit her first solo show with the gallery in April.”

To see the full list (which also features COOPER COLE Director Simon Cole) please visit Artinfo.

For more information about Georgia Dickie please contact the gallery.

Static & Scrim

Glen Baldridge
Colby Bird
Patrick Brennan
David Kennedy Cutler
Sam Moyer
Sara Greenberger Rafferty
Ryan Wallace

January 31, 2013 – February 23, 2013

Opening reception: Thursday January 31, 2012 / 6 – 10pm / facebook

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Glen Baldridge
Colby Bird
Patrick Brennan
David Kennedy Cutler
Sam Moyer
Sara Greenberger Rafferty
Ryan Wallace

January 31, 2013 – February 23, 2013

Opening reception: Thursday January 31, 2012 / 6 – 10pm / facebook

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Gallery artist Ryan Wallace was featured on New York Arts Magazine.

“Do you see yourself as a painter? Do you care? I’ve always thought you fetishized the your surface.

RW: At the core yes, though sculpture has become increasingly important. These works still come from my understanding of painting. They are essentially still lifes. For me, abstract paintings have inherent psychological connotations. The sculptures that I make are generally recognizable things. The manner in which the realist objects are created, allow them to emote a similar tone to the abstractions I make with paint or collage materials. What they do is more important to me than what they are. I find that surface helps to unify the work. They have a kind of touch or attention to materials that is of my sensibility, rather than it all being the same style or thing. ”

To see the full post please visit New York Arts Magazine.

For more information about Ryan Wallace please contact the gallery.

Our current exhibition De-Accessioned was listed on Artforum as a critics pick.

“This is a surprisingly ambitious group show that doesn’t deal with deaccessioning as a reality (à la Michael Asher) but instead mines that term for the institutional mystery and intrigue it suggests. Deaccessioning is the shadowy process whereby museums get rid of works in their collections. As such, many of the works in this show are packed for transport—either rolled up, crated, stacked, or leaning against the walls. While some pieces overlap (notably Laura McCoy’s thickly worked foamcore boards resting within Georgia Dickie’s tape outlines), even those that are relatively clearly displayed are still essentially submerged into artist-cum-“curator” Lucas Soi’s overarching image of the show.

Operating like Louise Lawler in reverse, Soi arranged this show like a studio photographer composing an allegorical image of one of a museum’s darkest secrets. He even added crates when most of the work probably arrived at the gallery in the back of a cab. This sculptural intervention makes clear the disingenuous nature of Soi’s claim to “curate.” His decision to deploy Matthew Brown’s paintings rolled up and arranged on the floor as a grille or grating speaks to this as well, revealing him, in this exhibition at least, to be a sculptor more at ease working materially with the work of others.

The reversals—between paintings becoming sculptures and those sculptures themselves existing somehow “photographically,” almost posed as in a portrait studio—produces a fascinating aura of fake candor that through clear insincerity manages to release a weirdly affecting emotive yelp. Ultimately, it is this collision of confidence with insecurity, bubbling up from many of the tentative paintings themselves, which gives the show its own life.”

To see the review on line please visit Artforum.

De-Accessioned continues until January 19, 2013.

Join us for a talk with curator Lucas Soi this Saturday January 12, 2013 / 3:00pm – 4:00pm.

Gallery artist Sara Cwynar recently was interviewed on The Heavy Collective.

For more information about available works from Cwynar please contact the gallery.

Gallery artist Ryan Travis Christian has his first solo museum exhibition opening at the Contemporary Art Museum Raleigh, North Carolina opening February 22, 2013 through June 17, 2013.

“CAM Raleigh will be presenting a major exhibition of artworks by Ryan Travis Christian, titled Well, Here We Aren’t Again. This is Christian’s first museum show and will feature a large-scale wall drawing. Christian will spend three weeks in CAM Raleigh’s Independent Gallery creating a 26-foot long drawing. Visitors are welcome to watch his unique process of drawing during museum hours. Ryan Travis Christian is a Chicago-area artist who works primarily with graphite and ink. His images are constructed using abstract elements, comic utilities, and old fashion cartoon iconography.”

See the full press release at this link.

Gallery artist Ryan Travis Christian has a spread in the January 2013 issue of Juztapoz Magazine.

See the full article online at this link.

Join exhibition curator Lucas Soi as he tours De-Accessioned. Leading a walk around the gallery space that will reveal the contours of his curatorial composition, he will reminisce about the de-centralization of the exhibition space, institutional critique via art transportation materials, acts of appropriation through renouncing of the art object and the process of re-interpretation as camouflage.

Saturday January 12, 2013 / 3:00pm – 4:00pm

De-Accessioned is an exhibition that imagines the de-centralization of the exhibition space. Taking as its title the term describing the deliberate removal of an artwork from a museum’s permanent collection, it is one of the most controversial decisions an institution can make. Disrupting the “museum’s stated ambitions to assemble disparate objects into a single space and to bestow on them the intellectual, aesthetic, and categorical coherence of a collection, conserving these objects for posterity,” de-accessioning a work and releasing it back into the world is a process of re-interpretation. Separated from their functional context and circulated back into the real world, the works in De-Accessioned declare the transitory space between package and delivery as the site of exhibition. Many of the artworks on display use art transportation materials as their medium. In transit, the artwork assigns specific function to the practice of location, commanding a re-evaluation of its site-specificity. This socio-critical action allows works that are recognizable, such as paintings, to perjure the installation with their symbolism, leaving the audience to imagine a more appropriate arrangement in another ideal environment.

COOPER COLE would like to wish you and your family a safe and relaxing holiday season.

The gallery will be open by appointment only from December 23, 2012 – January 7, 2013 and will reopen with regular gallery hours on Tuesday January 8, 2013. To request a private appointment please contact the gallery.

Our current exhibition De-Accessioned continues until January 19, 2013. Join us for a conversation with curator Lucas Soi and Cheyanne Turions on Saturday, January 12th at 3pm.

The current exhibition De-Accessioned continues at the gallery until January 19, 2013.

De-Accessioned

Matthew Brown
Georgia Dickie
Charles Gute
Colleen Heslin
Lili Huston-Herterich
Laura McCoy
Abby McGuane
Tegan Moore
Les Ramsay
Sean Weisgerber
Jay Wilson

Curated by Lucas Soi

To view more installations shots please visit this link.

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Gallery artist Maya Hayuk was recently featured in Brooklyn Magazine. 

See the article here to get a look inside Maya’s studio.

“What are the three inanimate things you’d save first in a fire?
All of my external hard drives, my archive of photographs, the pillow my grandmother embroidered in 1923, when she was 13 years old.”

Gallery artist Jen Stark was recently featured on It’s Nice That.

“The Miami-born master of colour and form embraces complexity but in a fully inclusive way, creating pieces that are both immediately satisfying and infinitely intriguing.”

To see the full post please visit It’s Nice That.

Gallery artist Sara Cwynar received a nice mention in a recent Macleans article profiling Canadians at the art fairs in Miami.

“Cooper Cole gallery has enjoyed a meteoric rise to the top of Toronto’s West-end gallery scene, thanks in large part to star pupil Sara Cwynar, who along with a mini army of CC’s best and brightest, will be featured at Miami Project, the freshman of this year’s slew of satellite fairs. Born in Vancouver but based in Brooklyn, Cwyer, a graphic designer and illustrator who moonlights as both at New York Times magazine, has the impressive resume, the of-the-moment aesthetic, and just-the-right dose of attention from just-the-right tastemakers to make us all think one thing: girl’s about to blow.”

To see the full article please visit Macleans online.

COOPER COLE is pleased to announce our participation in the Miami Project.

The gallery will be exhibiting artists Sara Cwynar, Chris Duncan, Maya Hayuk, Anders Oinonen, and Jen Stark.

Please visit us at Booth 719.

Miami Project | December 4-9, 2012 | Midtown Miami
Miami Project is an international art fair held December 4-9, 2012 in the Midtown Miami / Wynwood District.

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COOPER COLE is pleased to announce that we have two brand new free standing sculptural works available from gallery artist Jen Stark.

Both these works will be featured at our booth this week during the Miami Project Art Fair.

Holographic Circle / Acid-free foam board, holographic paper, glue, wood & paint / 35.5″ x 20″ x 20″ / 2012

Jen Stark’s practice is based on the concepts of replication and infinity, her artwork echoing patterns found in nature. The artist’s optically and formally baffling sculptures, animations, and drawings are inspired by plants, outer space, and the theories of colour, math and science. Her creations incorporate a variety of materials which produce optically hypnotic effects not unlike traditional mandalas and sacred objects. Jen Stark has exhibited her works in various galleries and museums across North America and Europe. Stark lives and works in Los Angeles, California.

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Opening reception: Friday December 14, 2012 / 6 – 10pm / facebook

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Artinfo recently ran a feature on Geoff McFetridge interviewing him about his current show at the gallery.

“When graphic designer and skate-culture icon, Geoff McFetridge, was advertised to be exhibiting new work at Toronto’s Cooper Cole – what is increasingly becoming the city’s platform for young, international, and typically pop-minded talent — one could hear the country’s subterranean street culture step a little closer to the surface. Former art director of the Beastie Boys’ underground “Grand Royal” magazine, and typography designer for Sofia Coppola’s “Virgin Suicides” and Spike Jonze’s “Where The Wild Things Are,” the Calgary-born, LA-based McFetridge has earned his credit on a stratified cultural playing field [such that even his more corporate clients, like Pepsi, Nike, and Gap, seem better for his touch (not McFetridge worse for theirs)].

Amid these various design-centered, multidisciplinary initiatives, McFetridge has long maintained a presence in the art world, presenting solo exhibitions in Los Angeles, Berlin, Paris, London, New York, and Japan. Uniquely, “Floating,” McFetridge’s exhibition at Cooper Cole (on until December 8) marks the artist’s first show in Canada.”
-Sky Goodden

To see the full post please visit Artinfo.

Geoff McFetridge
Floating
November 9 – December 8, 2012

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Bethlehem Boys / Screenprint pasted on found wood / 52″ x 39″

COOPER COLE has a new inventory of original work available from gallery artist Caledonia Curry (Swoon).

Caledonia Curry is a Brooklyn based artist better known under her moniker Swoon. Curry draws her inspiration from historical and folk sources as diverse as German Expressionist woodblock prints and Indonesian shadow puppets. Creating stunningly beautiful life-sized character studies from paper cutouts, woodblock prints and linocuts, her worlds are often populated by realistically rendered – and evocatively cut-out – street people, often her friends and family. Riding bikes, talking on a stoop, going grocery shopping – these people traverse a cityscape of her own unique invention. Swoon is a master of using cut paper to play with positive and negative space in a conceptually driven exploration of the experience of the streets. She has designed and built several large-scale installations, most notably the Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea at Deitch Projects in 2008. Her work can be found in sophisticated collections across the world including The Museum of Modern Art, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, and the Tate Modern.

To see all available works online please follow this link.

For information regarding pricing and availability please contact the gallery.

Our current show with Geoff McFetridge was featured in this weeks issue of The Grid.

Pick up a copy of The Grid or see the article online here.

“In “Passing,” for example, one of the paintings in McFetridge’s current show, two cyclists ride by each other in opposite directions, yet the tension between them is palpable. McFetridge captures the exact moment they meet, a moment full of potential that we sense will go unfulfilled. The cyclists could turn to look at each other, they could dismount and chat, they could fall in love. But they won’t—they’re just passing. “You grow accustomed to working with the language of your culture and then you realize it’s actually universal,” he says.”

Geoff McFetridge
Floating
November 9 – December 8, 2012

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COOPER COLE is pleased to announce the release of a limited edition print from Geoff McFetridge. This multiple is being released in conjunction with McFetridge’s current exhibition now on display at the gallery.

Prints can be purchased online via paypal or by contacting the gallery directly.

Geoff McFetridge
Chopping Stripes
4 colour screen print
29″ x 22″ (76.2cm x 55.9cm)
Signed & numbered
Limited edition of 35
2012

Geoff McFetridge
Floating
November 9 – December 8, 2012

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Our current show with Geoff McFetridge was featured on Hypebeast.

See the full post on Hypebeast.

Geoff McFetridge
Floating
November 9 – December 8, 2012

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McFetridge was interviewed and profiled in his Los Angeles studio space for the article.

“I draw many many pieces when before I do a show, developing imagery. Images really carry my paintings as technically they are extremely simple and flat. For me it is the image that is central to every painting. The images come out of things I see, or imagine I saw, or ideas that I continue to explore and repeat. Much of the work involves figures, rendered in their most simplistic form. Once I have an image that resonates with me, I really refine it, reducing it to the point to where it is almost falling apart visually. I am interested in visual cliches. For years my graphics came out of finding, and inventing and tweaking common language and graphics. The work was not referential though. I was not appropriating images. I have tried to make original work that somehow felt familiar, so familiar that it feels appropriated.”

See the full post on SLAMXHYPE.

Geoff McFetridge
Floating
November 9 – December 8, 2012

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Gallery artists Anders Oinonen and Marc Bell are both included in the current exhibition at the DePaul Art Museum in Chicago. This exhibition explores work by contemporary artists who draw inspiration from an earlier generation of artists known as the Chicago Imagists.

The show was chosen by Artforum as a Critics’ Pick.

“…reminds viewers of the original movement’s loosely associated idiosyncrasies: figural forms, often with a combination of hieratic graphic precision and grotesque distortion, comic juxtaposition and cryptic text, recurrence of motifs and the suggestion of hidden or symbolic meaning, and strong colors not of the Pop art Day-Glo variety but out of comic books, Surrealist painting, and homespun craft.”

To see the full article, visit ArtForum.

DePaul Art Museum
Afterimage
September 14 – November 18, 2012

The current exhibition by Geoff McFetridge continues at the gallery until December 08, 2012.

To view more installations shots please visit our website. 

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Our current show with Geoff McFetridge was previewed on Complex.

“At Toronto’s Cooper Cole Gallery, McFetridge’s signature style and humor sings through neat compositions with even neater titles. The show is titled Floating.”

See the full post on Complex.

Geoff McFetridge
Floating
November 9 – December 8, 2012

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COOPER COLE is pleased to announce our participation in The Miami Project.

The gallery will be exhibiting artists Sara Cwynar, Chris Duncan, Maya Hayuk, Anders Oinonen, and Jen Stark.

Please visit us at Booth 719.

The Miami Project | December 4-9, 2012 | Midtown Miami
Miami Project is an international art fair held December 4-9, 2012 in the Midtown Miami / Wynwood District.

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Our recent show with Maya Hayuk was featured on Design Milk.

“This wall covered in layered canvases becomes a three-dimensional installation of criss-crossing, brightly colored lines full of eye-catching depth.”

To see the full post please visit Design Milk online.

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Our upcoming show with Geoff McFetridge was previewed on 12ozProphet.

“Los Angeles-based, Calgary-born artist Geoff McFetridge is set to open Floating at Cooper Cole Gallery in Toronto on November 9, 2012. This will mark McFetridge’s first show in his native land of Canada.”

See the full post on 12ozProphet.

Geoff McFetridge
Floating
November 9 – December 8, 2012

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Our upcoming show with Geoff McFetridge was previewed on Trendland.

To see the full post visit Trendland.

Geoff McFetridge
Floating
November 9 – December 8, 2012

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Our upcoming show with Geoff McFetridge was previewed on Juxtapoz Magazine.

“An artist we cover on the site often, and one who has become a painter with an increasingly signature style and approach to the age old idiom, ‘less is more,’ Los Angeles based, Calgary-born Geoff McFetridge is set to open Floating at Cooper Cole Gallery in Toronto on November 9, 2012.”

See the full post on Juxtapoz.

Geoff McFetridge
Floating
November 9 – December 8, 2012

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Our upcoming show with Geoff McFetridge was previewed on Lodown Magazine.

Geoff McFetridge
Floating
November 9 – December 8, 2012

To see the full post visit Lodown Magazine.

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Our current exhibition Permanent Demand featuring Andrew Jeffrey Wright, William Buzzell, and Jesse Harris was mention in NOW Toronto Magazine.

“Art as product and commodity is the target of Permanent Demand, a group show of three artists. Together their pieces form a satiric trifecta that skewers art as both rarified object and capitalist fetish.”

“Andrew Jeffrey Wright addresses the theme with a series of drawings tracing the manufacture of “products” like a Nike sneaker, a painting and a baby. Paintings are made from a palette that includes noxious bodily fluids like “snot” and “pus,” and Nike sneakers apparently can’t be made without the blood of children. However bleak their underlying point, these lo-fi drawings still radiate a gleeful punk rock nihilism that brings to mind 90s kitchen-sink zines. ”

To see the full post please visit NOW Toronto.

Permanent Demand featuring Andrew Jeffrey Wright, William Buzzell, and Jesse Harris continues until November 3, 2012.

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Opening reception Friday November 9, 2012 / 6 – 10pm / facebook

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COOPER COLE is pleased to announce that the gallery now represents Canadian artist Les Ramsay.

Currently a resident of Montreal, Vancouver based artist Les Ramsay works in exploring techniques in abstract painting and sculpture. His work investigates tropes found in modern art and everyday life. Ramsay’s dedicated studio practice expands into other mediums such as collage, drawing, photography, and video. Les Ramsay is presently a student in the MA Painting program at Concordia University. He received his BFA in Visual Arts in 2007 from the Emily Carr University in Vancouver, and also studied at the Bellas Artes, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain. His work has been exhibited in Canada, Spain, Sweden, and the United States.

To see a full selection of works please visit Ramsay’s artist profile.

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Northern Lights / Towel, pastel, tempera, and oil on cotton / 62″ x 48″ / 2012

Our current exhibition Permanent Demand featuring Andrew Jeffrey Wright, William Buzzell, and Jesse Harris got a mention on Netherlands based design blog Frameweb.

“Running until 3 November at Cooper Cole Gallery in Toronto, Permanent Demand explores the ideas of art as a commodity and the consequences of consumer culture through the eyes of three very different artists: Andrew Jeffrey Wright, William Buzzell and Jesse Harris.

Andrew Jeffrey Wright approaches the subject through both humorous and somewhat satirical line drawings or through colour permeated canvases; William Buzzell uses three dimensional collages to talk about consumerism, while Jesse Harris work is statement oriented, using readily available materials and familiar forms and language.

The work of the these three artists comes together in an eclectic dialogue that share the same preoccupations and influences of a generation.”

To see the full post please visit Frameweb.

Permanent Demand featuring Andrew Jeffrey Wright, William Buzzell, and Jesse Harris continues until November 3, 2012.

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COOPER COLE is pleased to announce that the gallery now represents Canadian artist Georgia Dickie.

Georgia Dickie (born 1989, Toronto, Canada) graduated with a BFA from the Ontario College of Art and Design in 2011. Her work addresses the complexities of contemporary object-based practice, and is characterized by a deep interest in found materials and their inherent limitations. Recent exhibitions include group showings at the Oakville Galleries, and the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art. Dickie will be have a solo exhibition at COOPER COLE in April, 2013.

To see a full selection works please visit Dickies’s artist profile.

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Jesse Harris’ recent mural project was featured on Juxtapoz Magazine.

“Toronto-based multi-disciplinary artist, Jesse Harris, who was recently included in a group show entitled “Permanent Demand” at Cooper Cole gallery, has completed a new mural in the West Queen Street Neighborhood of Toronto. “You’ve Changed” is meant to comment on local gentrification of West Queen Street and to support a positive message to patients visiting the adjacent Centre from Addiction and Mental Health.”

To see the full post please visit Juxtapoz online.

Our current exhibition Permanent Demand featuring Andrew Jeffrey Wright, William Buzzell, and Jesse Harris got a mention on art blog Beautiful Decay.

“If you’re in Toronto, or going to be before november 3, you should check out Permanent Demand at Cooper Cole Gallery right now. CC put together some smart, funny, and energetic pieces loosely about art and consumerism by Jesse Harris, William Buzzell, and Andrew Jeffrey Wright to make what looks to be a great show.”

To see the full post please visit Beautiful Decay.

Permanent Demand featuring Andrew Jeffrey Wright, William Buzzell, and Jesse Harris continues until November 3, 2012.

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Jesse Harris recently completed a large scale mural in Toronto.

This mural project titled “You’ve Changed” was completed in October of 2012. The mural is located at 1075 Queen Street West, adjacent to the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto. The mural provides a positive message to CAMH patients as well as comments on the rapid gentrification and changing face of the West Queen Street West neighbourhood. This project was coordinated by Spectrum Art Projects and COOPER COLE Gallery, documented by Jeremy Jansen, and partially funded by the City of Toronto’s StreetARToronto (StART) Partnership program.

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Andrew Jeffrey Wright, William Buzzell, and Jesse Harris’ exhibition Permanent Demand continues at the gallery until November 3, 2012. To view photos of the installation please click this link.

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William Buzzell was recently profiled on NYC based lifestyle blog, The World’s Best Ever.  

William explains the subject behind a selection of works from our current show Permanent Demand.

To see the full post please visit The World’s Best Ever.

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Opening reception Thursday October 11, 2012 / 6 – 10pm / facebook

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Maya Hayuk’s current exhibition was featured on NYC blog Two Coats of Paint.

“Over the past decade or so, a slew of galleries have popped up in the west end of Toronto, giving the city’s art scene a much appreciated injection of vitality. The burgeoning contemporary art hub along the Ossington strip and west Queen West has garnered international attention and acclaim, and deservedly so. Here’s a quick round up of notable painting shows in Toronto this month.

With influences ranging from Ukranian Easter eggs to chandeliers to holograms, Maya Hayuk’s Multi Versus could be described as psychedelia for the 21st century. Organized chaos reigns on canvases splashed with vibrant rainbow hues, intermixed with freehand geometric line work. A member of artist collective Barnstormers (other members include Chuck Webster, Doze Green, and Ryan McGinness) and frequent collaborator with a variety of musicians including M.I.A., The Beastie Boys, and Animal Collective, Brooklyn-based Hayuk’s oeuvre also includes silk-screening, set design, video work, and internationally commissioned murals.”

To see the full post please visit Two Coats of Paint.

Maya Hayuk’s exhibition Multi Versus continues at the gallery until October 6, 2012.

To view photos of the installation please click this link.

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Here is a behind the scenes look at Maya Hayuk’s installation at the Bonnefanten Museum in the Netherlands.

Her solo exhibition recently opened and is in dialog with BACA Laureate 2012 award winning artist Mary Heilmann.

Maya Hayuk’s exhibition Multi Versus continues at the gallery until October 6, 2012.

To view photos of the installation please click this link.

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Todd James will be signing copies of his latest book at The Standard tonight in NYC.

For information about available art from Todd please contact the gallery.

Ryan Travis Christian was recently listed as one of the top 50 artists working in Chicago by New Art City.

Ryan Travis Christian has one of the most strikingly recognizable styles in Chicago right now. His monochrome graphite drawings pull cartoony caricatures into chiaroscuro smokescreens—hallucinogenic residue or a terrorist’s daydream? The compositions are complicated, the figures unnerving. His 2011 exhibition, “The River Rats,” at Western Exhibitions, set the stage for his meandering, twisted path to portraiture; a crisp Surrealist interpretation of the after-dark alley cat junk aesthetic so readily plucked from 1920s Disney animations, yet recall the human comedy and tragedy of James Ensor’s masks. Christian is also an energetic promoter of peers on the web, resulting in invitations to collaborate on drawings exhibited around the country.

To see the full list please visit New Art City.

For more information about available works from Ryan Travis Christian please contact the gallery.

Maya Hayuk’s exhibition Multi Versus continues at the gallery until October 6, 2012.

To view photos of the installation please click this link.

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Jacob Ciocci’s exhibition Experience the Creativity continues at the gallery until October 6, 2012.

To view photos of the installation please click this link.

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Gallery artist Marc Bell has a work in the upcoming Canadian Art Foundation auction.

Now in its 17th year, the Canadian Art Gallery Hop Gala and Auction is Toronto’s signature visual-art event, attracting a who’s who of the Canadian contemporary art scene. This year’s event is inspired by the impact of conceptualism on art-making in this country. The venue—the elegant Carlu ballroom—will, for one night only, be transformed by artists An Te Liu and Micah Lexier into an incredible experience for gala attendees.

Our live and silent auction showcases an exceptional selection of artworks by Canada’s emerging and established art stars. It provides the perfect opportunity to acquire a new work of art while supporting artists and the Canadian Art Foundation, one of Canada’s most respected visual-arts organizations.

We are delighted to welcome Lisa Dennison, Chairman, Sotheby’s North and South America, who will share her knowledge of the current art market with gala guests. Over the course of her distinguished career, Ms. Dennison has developed outstanding relationships with important collectors, artists and experts worldwide. She is an internationally recognized figure in the fields of modern and contemporary art. We are equally delighted to have Senior Auctioneer, C. Hugh Hildesley, conduct the live auction. Hildesley has conducted some of Sotheby’s most prestigious sales, including the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Sale and the Sale of the Property of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. He holds the record for the highest selling price at auction of any Canadian painting: Paul Kane’s Scene in the Northwest—Portrait of John Henry Lefroy in 2002 for $5.2 million.

To view the available work and bid online please visit this link.

COOPER COLE will also be participating in the Canadian Art Gallery tour on Saturday September 22, 2012.

For more information about Marc Bell please contact the gallery.

Gallery artists Jen Stark and Swoon will have a works available at the upcoming RE:DEFINE auction in aid of the MTV Staying Alive Foundation.

The event press release can be read below.

Following unprecedented success for the debut event in 2011, RE:DEFINE in aid of the MTV Staying Alive Foundation returns to the Goss-Michael Foundation in Dallas with a significantly enhanced program and another high-profile lineup of contemporary art, much of which has been produced exclusively for the event.

Curated once again by The Future Tense, the contributing artists are as follows:

Yasmine Arman, Charming Baker, Lee Baker, Scott Campbell, Mat Collishaw, Chuck Elliott, Ryan Gander, James Hugonin, Ralf Kaspers, Jim Houser, Tat Ito, Tom Leighton, Michael Craig-Martin, Pedro Matos, Tomokazu Matsuyama, Mary McCartney, Ryan McGinness, Matt Mignanelli, Aakash Nihalani, Parra, Marc Quinn, Gérard Rancinan, Michael Reisch, Jen Stark, Kai and Sunny, Swoon, Juergen Teller, Mark Webber, Dave White.

Key lots include a stunning new orchid painting by Marc Quinn, a large work from Ralf Kasper’s Summerland series, a specially commissioned canvas by Ryan McGinness and a unique work from Gérard Rancinan, who recently broke the world auction record for a living French photographer at Phillips de Pury London.

The full catalogue for the event featuring details of all lots can be found at http://www.mtvredefine.com/catalogue.php with printed catalogues available on request.

In addition to the exhibition and auction, the event is complemented by a dynamic range of supporting activities, including a 100ft public mural in downtown Dallas by Lee Baker, exclusive limited edition RE:DEFINE t-shirts designed by Parra, a specially-commissioned fine art print edition by Mark Webber and live painting at the gala auction by Dave White.

The accompanying silent auction features over 20 exclusive luxury packages including a bespoke furniture piece from 2011 Designer of the Year award winner, Lee Broom, a sitting with photography duo Inez and Vinoodh, a unique series of art-inspired jewelry by Royal Asscher and a private concert orchestrated by Musical America’s ‘Conductor of the Year 2012’, Jaap Van Zweden.

RE:DEFINE will open to the public from September 14 – 21 with the live auction taking place at an exclusive gala reception on September 22, hosted by Simon de Pury, Chairman of Phillips de Pury & Company. 100% of the proceeds from the auction will benefit the MTV Staying Alive Foundation, which encourages, energizes and empowers young people who are involved in HIV and AIDS awareness, education and prevention campaigns.

Collectors unable to attend the event in person will have a wide range of absentee bidding options, including proxy and telephone bidding, as well as live online bidding via Live Auctioneers: http://www.liveauctioneers.com/catalog/32405

Full absentee bidding information can be found at: http://mtvredefine.com/absentee_bidding.php

Tickets for the VIP gala are available from: http://redefine2012.eventbrite.com/

Sponsors of RE:DEFINE 2012 include The Joule Hotel, Neiman Marcus, Belvedere Vodka, D Magazine and ic! berlin.

Press contact:

Barbara Buzzell – bb@buzzellco.com

ABOUT MTV INTERNATIONAL’S STAYING ALIVE FOUNDATION

The MTV Staying Alive Foundation is a global grant-giving and content-producing public charity operating in affiliation with MTV Networks International.

In 1998, MTV launched the Staying Alive TV series, which grew to be the world’s largest multimedia HIV prevention and awareness campaign for young people, including documentaries, dramas, public service announcements, websites, events and forums.

Created in 2004, the MTV Staying Alive Foundation expanded the initiative in to a charitable, grant-giving organization to support youth-led initiatives committed to stopping the spread of HIV in local communities.

To date, the Foundation has awarded 304 grants in 61 countries across the world, distributing over $3 million.  The MTV Staying Alive Foundation is dedicated to fighting stigma and discrimination and empowering young people to protect themselves against the disease.  The MTV Staying Alive Foundation is registered as a UK charity and as a 501c3 charitable organization in the US.

For more information visit http://stayingalivefoundation.org

For more information about Jen Stark and Swoon please contact the gallery.

COOPER COLE is pleased to announce that we have a new inventory of paintings and sculptures available from Vancouver based artist Mark DeLong.

Mark DeLong, born 1978 in New Brunswick, is a self taught artist working in a variety of mediums including drawing, painting, sculpture and video. His work has been displayed at Colette, Paris; Bee Studios, Tokyo; Spencer-Brownstone Gallery, New York; Abel Neue Kunst Gallery, Berlin; Perugi Art Contemporenea, Padova, Italy; Museum Of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto; LES Gallery, Vancouver; Little Cakes, New York; and COOPER COLE in Toronto. Delong has collaborated with such artists as Paul Butler, Jason McLean, Jacob Gleeson, and Geoffrey Farmer. His work has been seen in Border Crossings and Canadian Art Magazine and he has published books with Nieves, Switzerland; Seems Books, and TV Books in New York. DeLong currently lives and works in Vancouver, Canada. DeLong will be participating in a two person exhibition at COOPER COLE in March 2013 with artist Joseph Hart.

Ocean Water For Wiggle / Acrylic on porcelain / 2012

To see a full selection of available works please visit DeLong’s artist profile.

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Above is a time lapse video of artist Devin Troy Strother creating a painting. Strother will be exhibiting in a two person exhibition with artist Gina Beavers at COOPER COLE in the spring of 2013.

To be placed on the exhibition preview list for the exhibition please contact the gallery.

Gallery artists Anders Oinonen and Marc Bell are both included in an upcoming exhibition at the DePaul Art Museum in Chicago.

The DePaul Art Museum will explore work by contemporary artists who draw inspiration from an earlier generation of Chicago artists known as Imagists in “Afterimage,” which opens September 14. Free and open to the public, the exhibition runs through Nov. 18.

Emerging in the late 1960s, Imagist artists in Chicago challenged the dominant principles of Pop and abstraction, their figural distortion and hot palettes derived from countless vernacular sources like advertising and comics. Decades later, the Imagists’ stance still resonates for a new generation of contemporary artists, whose work builds on and expands this legacy. Afterimage provides a new view of contemporary art of the region and also explores the larger question of how to understand the processes of influence and appropriation.

Three partner exhibitions at other Chicago venues provide deeper understanding of both the contemporary artists in Afterimage and the Chicago Imagists: The Roger Brown Study Collection, the Center for Book and Paper Arts, and the Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection.

Afterimage is curated by Thea Liberty Nichols and Dahlia Tulett-Gross and organized by the DePaul Art Museum. The exhibition publication will be available for purchase at the museum.

For more information about the exhibition please visit DePaul Art Museum.

For more information about either artist please contact the gallery.

Gallery artist Marc Bell had a comic published in French magazine Le Monde diplomatique.

For more information about Marc Bell please contact the gallery.

Maya Hayuk
Multi Versus
September 6, 2012 – October 6, 2012

Opening reception Thursday September 6, 2012 / 6 – 10pm / facebook

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Gallery artist Sara Cwynar received a nice mention on Paper Mag.

“Brooklyn based artist Sara Cwynar is a graphic designer and illustrator for The New York Times Magazine as well as an avid collector of all sorts of shit. Her most recent solo show, “Accidental Archives” was a selection of wild, color-coded mini dioramas of her possessions that were photographed and displayed at the Cooper Cole Gallery in Toronto. All of Cwynar’s work is worth exploring but her projects “Kitsch Encyclopedia” and “Paranoia Archive” are two of my favorites that you can view along with much much more on her website. ”

To see the full post please visit Paper Mag online.

For more information about Sara Cwynar please contact the gallery.

Opening reception / Thursday September 6, 2012 / 6 – 10pm

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Opening reception / Thursday September 6, 2012 / 6 – 10pm

For press and sales information please inquire with the gallery.

Gallery artist Ryan Wallace was recently featured on Sight Unseen.

“To get an idea of how Ryan Wallace approaches materials, look no further than one of the walls of his studio, made from the kind of slatboard paneling that a Chinatown souvenir shop might use to stack metal shelves full of I ♥ New York T-shirts. When Wallace found the studio last year, it was perfect otherwise — a clean, well-lit space above Paulie Gee’s pizza in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, right near his apartment. “At first I thought the wall was kind of gross,” he says. But he slowly began to accept it on a purely functional level; the way things could be hung at different heights was ideal for a painter. “I thought, ‘What can I do with this?’ A thing like that gets planted in my head, and eventually it finds its way into the next thing I’m doing.”

If this open-minded approach to materials is the foundation of Wallace’s work, an interest in existential scientific questions is its overriding concept. Growing up on the East Coast, Wallace was never particularly spiritual or religious, but he always found himself reading special editions of Time about the latest theories of the universe. His formal education at RISD only proved to him that artists and scientists are more alike than not. “We’re both on some sort of quest for discovery,” he says. He’s been fascinated in recent years by the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, which served as an inspiration point for his one-man show at Morgan Lehman Gallery earlier this year. For “Cusp,” he created three new series of abstract paintings — Glean, Atlas, and Tablet — which, as their names suggest, meditate on information overload, geography, and data in different visual ways. From a purely material perspective, they use soft solids like oil, enamel, ink, graphite, PVA, Mylar, artist tape, and cut paper, stretched and bound and sorted and scored into a four-cornered ordered object. As physical objects, however, they are layered and compressed with so much visual data that they become, as Wallace puts it, “a surface that stores information.”

To create the pieces in his new series, Wallace began cutting into the paintings and building them from the inside out. The collage-based paintings consist of a fastidious arrangement of hundreds of tiny pieces of paper and tape leftover from other projects. A sheet of Mylar is glued over the whole thing, leaving random-looking air bubbles in pockets over the piece. “The Mylar gives this kind of neurotic process an element of total chance,” he says. “If it was just little things arranged on a surface, it would be too design-y for me.” But it’s also consistent with his process. “I never use anything the right way,” he says. “You’re definitely not supposed to wrap a canvas in Mylar.”

Using materials the wrong way, however, seems to bring serendipitous results. A series of freestanding vitrines for his show at Morgan Lehmann used automotive tints and one-way mirror film to raise some plaster casts he’d made of ordinary rocks to the status of sacred object. “My work’s not sarcastic in this way, but I’m using stuff that 16-year-olds put on their Civics to be macho and fancy,” Wallace says. “And at the end of the day, I also think they’re really beautiful. Whenever I go from painting to printmaking to sculpture, it’s always about what can this medium do that that medium can’t do.”

For Wallace, a little discovery — like how his Mylar paintings ended up having a waxy surface texture — can result in an entire body of work. He even found a couple of 4x8s of his studio’s god-awful paneling in the stairwell of the building earlier this year, and he’s now begun using it to make pedestals. He even may be beginning to like it. “It’s scrappy, it’s industrial,” he says, listing off a few adjectives he considers compliments. “And it’s got this design element to it, but it’s a crummy one. That balance of elegance and crum is really important to me.”

To see the full post and accompanying photo essay please visit Sight Unseen.

For more information about Ryan Wallace please contact the gallery.

Below is the press release for the event.

ADC Young Gun Sara Cwynar (YG9) will be appearing @ the Apple Store SoHo, NYC on August 27, 2012.

Sara Cwynar studied graphic design and photography at York University in Toronto and English at the University of British Columbia. Cwynar has exhibited with Art Metropole at Art Basel, at The Magenta Flash Forward Festival, at Butcher Gallery, 107 Shaw Gallery, and the Royal College of Art. Her clients include The New York Times Magazine, 01 Magazine, Brooklyn Magazine, Globe clothing, and The Drake General Store. She is one of Print Magazine’s 20 Under 30 New Visual Artists for 2011. She works as a graphic designer at the New York Times Magazine.

Monday, August 27, 2012
6:30 – 8:00 PM
Apple Store SoHo
103 Prince St New York, NY

Free, no reservation required. For more information please visit the ADC Young Guns website.

COOPER COLE will be closed for summer holidays from August 19 – September 6.

The gallery will open our fall season on September 6th with a solo exhibition from Maya Hayuk as well as a project exhibition from Jacob Ciocci.

Maya Hayuk / Jacob Ciocci (project exhibition)
Septmber 6 – October 6

Andrew Jeffery Wright, William Buzzell, Jesse Harris
October 11 – November 3

Geoff McFetridge
November 8 – December 8

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Sara Cwynar’s exhibition Accidental Archives was featured on London, UK based 1883 Magazine’s blog.

“Canadian photographer Sara Cwynar uses what could otherwise be seen as junk to create a beautiful colour spectacle. In Accidental Archives, Cwynar has collected objects over the last decade and meticulously arranged them into colour order to create a vibrantly retro collection giving your average household goods a new lease of life.

“It’s about working through all the junk and souvenirs and photos we accumulate,” says Cwynar. “And also the collective body of photographs we see and understand in our culture.”

You can see Accidental Archives at the Cooper Cole Gallery in Toronto until Saturday.”

To see the full post please visit 1883 Magazine’s blog.

Sara Cwynar’s exhibition Accidental Archives was featured on American Photography Magazine’s blog.

“If you’re a collector of some sort, chances are you’ll appreciate Sara Cwynar’s project “Accidental Archives.” Using objects that she accumulated over the course of a decade, Cwynar has sorted them out by color, and photographed them on a background of the same shade. The result is a series of somewhat eerie still lifes, in which all sorts of things compete for attention with each other. My favorite might be the green one, in which the jaw of some scaly creature finds itself next to a can of soda, and a few plants. It’s actually not the first time that we’ve seen a photography project which groups together objects of similar colors; back in April, we wrote about JeongMee Yoon’s “The Pink & Blue Project,” which looks at the way that color has come to be associated with gender. Cwynar’s project is a little more personal in nature than Yoon’s, but it also shows the way we hoard objects today.

This work is on display at Toronto’s Cooper Cole Gallery until August 18.”

To see the full post please visit  the American Photography Magazine blog.

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