Blister in the Sun

Name: Blister in the Sun
Start: 2025-07-17T00:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-08-30T00:00:00+00:00
Location: COOPER COLE, Toronto, Canada

July 17 – August 30, 2025

Opening reception:
Thursday July 17, 6-8pm

COOPER COLE, Toronto, Canada

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↓ Artworks

COOPER COLE is pleased to present Blister in the Sun, a two-person exhibition featuring works by Julie Moon and Daniel Rios Rodriguez. Borrowing its title from the 1980s track by Violent Femmes, the show embraces heat, intensity, and a refusal to go quietly… a vivid response to the weight of the world.

Daniel Rios Rodriguez presents a series of sun-shaped earthenware paintings, these raw, sculptural works feel both grounded and otherworldly. Fired in clay, these astral creations blur the line between painting and sculpture. They are textured, intimate, and loaded with symbolic charge. These are not passive suns. They radiate emotion, memory, and energy, like personal constellations drawn out of dirt and fire that radiate optimism for a future inevitably bright.

Julie Moon’s ceramic flower sculptures twist and sprawl beyond traditional form. Her blooms feel almost sentient – colourful, expressive, and unapologetically psychedelic. They’re ornamental but unruly, soft but defiant. In her hands, the flower becomes a kind of emotional amplifier, alive with joy, anxiety, and desire.

Together, Moon and Rodriguez build a space that pulses with colour, texture, and feeling that offers a visual and emotional counterpoint to the exhaustion of the current moment. Not only as an escape, but as a reminder that joy, play, and beauty are still tools for staying human.

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Artworks

Julie Moon

Petrichor

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Julie Moon

Petrichor, 2024

Stoneware, glaze

20.5" X 24" X 24"
52.07 cm X 60.96 cm X 60.96 cm

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Julie Moon – Petrichor, Petrichor, 2024, Stoneware, glaze, 20.5" x 24" x 24", courtesy of COOPER COLE

Julie Moon

Limp

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Julie Moon

Limp, 2024

Stoneware, glaze

9" X 32" X 28"
22.86 cm X 81.28 cm X 71.12 cm

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Julie Moon – Limp, Limp, 2024, Stoneware, glaze, 9" x 32" x 28", courtesy of COOPER COLE

Julie Moon

Botrytis Blooms

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Julie Moon

Botrytis Blooms, 2025

Stoneware, glaze

24" X 19" X 12"
60.96 cm X 48.26 cm X 30.48 cm

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Julie Moon – Botrytis Blooms, Botrytis Blooms, 2025, Stoneware, glaze, 24" x 19" x 12", courtesy of COOPER COLE

Julie Moon

Kiss

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Julie Moon

Kiss, 2024

Stoneware, glaze

19.5" X 19" X 1.5"
49.53 cm X 48.26 cm X 3.81 cm

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Julie Moon – Kiss, Kiss, 2024, Stoneware, glaze, 19.5" x 19" x 1.5", courtesy of COOPER COLE

Julie Moon

Holding

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Julie Moon

Holding, 2024

Stoneware, glaze

18.5" X 10" X 12"
46.99 cm X 25.4 cm X 30.48 cm

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Julie Moon – Holding, Holding, 2024, Stoneware, glaze, 18.5" x 10" x 12", courtesy of COOPER COLE

Julie Moon

Phyllody

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Julie Moon

Phyllody, 2024

Stoneware, glaze

19" X 20" X 12"
48.26 cm X 50.8 cm X 30.48 cm

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Julie Moon – Phyllody, Phyllody, 2024, Stoneware, glaze, 19" x 20" x 12", courtesy of COOPER COLE

Daniel Rios Rodriguez

Fuck ICE Rosa

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Daniel Rios Rodriguez

Fuck ICE Rosa, 2025

Flashe on slipcast stoneware

13" X 13"
33.02 cm X 33.02 cm

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Daniel Rios Rodriguez

Papa

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Daniel Rios Rodriguez

Papa, 2025

Oil on terracotta

13" X 13"
33.02 cm X 33.02 cm

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Daniel Rios Rodriguez

Nourished by Time

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Daniel Rios Rodriguez

Nourished by Time, 2025

Flashe and spray paint on slipcast stoneware

13" X 13"
33.02 cm X 33.02 cm

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Daniel Rios Rodriguez

Tlacolula Sol

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Daniel Rios Rodriguez

Tlacolula Sol, 2025

Flashe on slipcast stoneware

13" X 13"
33.02 cm X 33.02 cm

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Daniel Rios Rodriguez

Sol for Gaza

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Daniel Rios Rodriguez

Sol for Gaza, 2025

Flashe on slipcast stoneware

13" X 13"
33.02 cm X 33.02 cm

Daniel Rios Rodriguez

The Fields

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Daniel Rios Rodriguez

The Fields, 2025

Flashe and spray paint on slipcast stoneware

13" X 13"
33.02 cm X 33.02 cm

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Daniel Rios Rodriguez

Fuck ICE Amarillo

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Daniel Rios Rodriguez

Fuck ICE Amarillo, 2025

Flashe on slipcast stoneware

13" X 13"
33.02 cm X 33.02 cm

D.RiosRodriguez0066

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