Opening reception: Friday March 17, 6-8pm
COOPER COLE is pleased to present This road leads home, a solo exhibition from Elias Hansen.
This marks Hansen’s first solo exhibition in Canada.
Elias Hansen (b. 1979, Washington, USA) studied printmaking under Master Printer Keiko Hara at Whitman College, Walla Walla, USA. His installations, comprised of an assortment of pipettes, flasks and beakers alongside rough-cut wood, rubber tubing and light bulbs, are interrelated in arrangements that reference the fragility of both the precious and the discarded, the authentic and the reproduced. His work has been exhibited internationally at the Maccarone in New York, USA; Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, USA; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA; The American Academy in Rome, Rome, IT; Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR; OSL Contemporary, Oslo, Norway; COOPER COLE, Toronto, Canada. He has also participated to the Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama, Japan. His works can be found in the Saatchi Collection in London, Fondazione Giuliani in Rome, IT, in the Coleccíon Jumex in Mexico City, in the Boise Art Museum in Boise, USA, and in the Seattle Art Museum in Seattle, USA. Hansen currently lives and works in upstate New York, USA.
For more information please contact the gallery:
info@coopercolegallery.com
+1.416.531.8000
Elias Hansen
If you have to ask, you ain’t need to know.
If you have to ask, you ain't need to know., 2014-2017
Wood, glass, CFL light bulbs
Elias Hansen
There ain’t no other place to go.
There ain't no other place to go., 2014-2017
CFL light bulbs, glass wood, steel, cork, razor and nails
Elias Hansen
After all that, nothing really seems to sit right anymore.
After all that, nothing really seems to sit right anymore., 2014-2017
CFL light bulbs, LED light, glass, wood, enamel paint, wire, post card, playing cards, photograph and drawing on paper
Edition of 3, 2 AP
Elias Hansen
Sitting close to the ground, looking for the sea.
Sitting close to the ground, looking for the sea., 2016
Found objects, glass, light bulbs, wire
