Frieze New York 2023

May 17, 2023 - May 21, 2023

Exhibitiors

COOPER COLE is pleased to present a solo exhibition of Canadian-born, Houston-based artist Jagdeep Raina in Frieze New York 2023.

Working in textile, drawing, writing, ceramics, 35mm film and video animation, Jagdeep Raina utilizes the archive in order to explore historical memory. His multi-media practice seeks to identify the residue left behind by the human touch, and its restorative potential.

The following text by Pedram Sazesh accompanies this presentation.

What time is this light-

Often we talk on the phone about where we’re living and how we feel about it, and time to time we manage to be in the same place to catch up in person.

I went on a walk yesterday to search for colours to cloak myself in. I walked by madder, woad, and white chalk lines on the sidewalks, and noticed this itchy place was already wearing me.

Another night I drove upstate to see a friend, stopping the car on a shoulder to play my uncle’s Nei. The car’s headlights rested on either side of me like wings. Leaving the car still running and feeling a slight breeze, I parked myself on this shore. While I blew into this instrument, a familiar sound to and of the reed bed played. The nearby swamp flickered with the sound of my uncle’s breath.

As the headlights slowly dimmed, a sudden flash exposed the landscape. I found this silver swamp to be a lake and saw blurry figures in the distance diving into it as if their silhouettes were were being woven into the light.

Soft glimmers of trees around, lit by a passing comet. Their shadows like memories turned the landscape askew.

I remember arriving home to find you/I in a postcard delivered. Written on it was a kind note about your trip, at a time when my visa was about to expire and yours was awaiting approval. But also on this postcard were scuffs made from the machines of the postal service, blurring parts of the picture on the front. I felt that they were the colours I was looking to wear.

A yesterday of 6 years, a comet passed, the same one that passed today.

Pedram Sazesh is an artist living between Amsterdam and Toronto. He met Jagdeep Raina in the summer of 2017 by Wesserunsett Lake.

Jagdeep Raina (b. 1991, Guelph, Ontario, Canada) is currently a Fellow at the Core Program, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and was previously a Paul Mellon Fellow at Yale University, a recipient of the 2020 Sobey Art Award, and a resident at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. He received his BFA from Western University in 2013, his MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2016. He has exhibited internationally at the Galerie Anne Barrault, Paris (2023); Todd Madigan Art Gallery at California State University, Bakersfield (2023); Libby Leshgold Gallery, Emily Carr University, Vancouver (2023); Blaffer Art Museum, Houston (2021); Jhaveri Contemporary, Mumbai (2021); Museum of Contemporary Art; Textile Museum, Toronto (2021); Soft Opening, London (2020); (Midway Contemporary, Minneapolis (2019); Art Gallery of Guelph, Guelph (2019); Cooper Cole, Toronto (2022,2019); Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton (2018); Rubin Museum of Art, New York (2018); RISD Museum of Art, Providence (2017); Humber Galleries, Toronto (2017); Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown (2017); Camden Arts Centre, London (2016); and Modern Fuel Artist Run Centre, Kingston (2016), amongst others.  His works can be found in the permanent collections of Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Yale Center for British Art, Carleton University Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Guelph. Raina lives and works in Houston, Texas, USA.

Artworks

Jagdeep Raina

Floral Coat

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Floral Coat, 2022

Mixed media on paper

J.R0279

50" X 63"
127cm X 160.02cm

Jagdeep Raina

Quiet Kinships

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Quiet Kinships, 2022

Mixed media on paper

J.R0278

22" X 30"
55.88cm X 76.2cm

Jagdeep Raina

The Garment of Shapes and Angles

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The Garment of Shapes and Angles, 2022

Mixed media on paper

J.R0233

31" X 23.5"
78.74cm X 59.69cm

Jagdeep Raina

Silk Diamonds

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Silk Diamonds, 2022

Mixed media on paper

J.R0230

31" X 23.5"
78.74cm X 59.69cm

Jagdeep Raina

We deserve to live

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We deserve to live, 2022

Embroidered tapestry

J.R0285

18" X 9"
45.72cm X 22.86cm

Jagdeep Raina

Mrs Malhotra

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Mrs Malhotra, 2022

Embroidered tapestry

J.R0261

30" X 9"
76.2cm X 22.86cm

Jagdeep Raina

Two Rivers

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Two Rivers, 2022

Embroidered tapestry

J.R0284

20" X 18"
50.8cm X 45.72cm

Jagdeep Raina

The lost meadow

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The lost meadow, 2023

Embroidered tapestry

J.R0305

11.5" X 3"
29.21cm X 7.62cm

Jagdeep Raina

Window by the sea

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Window by the sea, 2023

Embroidered tapestry

J.R0304

7" X 5"
17.78cm X 12.7cm

Jagdeep Raina

She travels softly through the seven gates as her garden croons for her

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She travels softly through the seven gates as her garden croons for her, 2022

Silk and cotton embroidered tapestry

J.R0271

26" X 17"
66.04cm X 43.18cm

Jagdeep Raina

I Will Dream of Peace

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I Will Dream of Peace, 2022

Embroidered tapestry, kashmiri embroidered ambi on natural dye Muslin

J.R0259

14" X 11"
35.56cm X 27.94cm

Jagdeep Raina

In This Lake of Bones

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In this lake of bones, 2022

Embroidered tapestry

J.R0257

26.5" X 10"
67.31cm X 25.4cm