The Best Booths at Frieze New York Maureen Gruben at Cooper Cole By Maximilíano Durón Four mixed-media etchings immediately draw you into this solo presentation of Maureen Gruben, an Indigenous artist from Tuktoyaktuk in Canada’s Northwest Territories. The works are made in memory of the artist’s father, Eddie, who was a well-regarded trapper and community figure. The basis of these etchings are aerial survey photographs created to map ice coverage …
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How Hangama Amiri’s extraordinary textile portraits bridge her past and present By Vivian Rashotte Hangama Amiri is an Afghan Canadian artist who’s known around the world for making masterpieces out of fabric. A lot of that fabric is from a home she was forced to leave. Amiri was seven years old when the Taliban seized control of Kabul in 1996. Years later, after fleeing Afghanistan and settling in Canada with …
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Watch Out for These 5 Rising Artists Making Their Frieze New York Debuts Maureen Gruben at Cooper Cole By Sara Roffino […] The tribute includes Gruben’s Nakataq etchings, made on aerial survey prints that oil companies use to document ice coverage and oil wells in the Arctic Ocean. Gruben scavenged the prints (as she does much of her material) from abandoned work camps near her ancestral land, on the northernmost part …
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Hangama Amiri at COOPER COLE To view the full post visit Art Viewer. For more information about Hangama Amiri please contact the gallery: info@coopercolegallery.com +1.416.531.8000

Emma Kohlmann at Cooper Cole By Michael Thompson The final scene of William Dear’s academy award–winning Harry and the Hendersons (1987), sees patriarch George Henderson, played by John Lithgow, lead his family into a dense wood situated atop a secluded mountain range. They’ve fled here in an effort to escape a pursuing tail of journalists and covert government agents who are eager to capture the family’s illicit cargo: a giant sasquatch …
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Jennie Jieun Lee at COOPER COLE To view the full post visit Art Viewer. For more information about Jennie Jieun Lee please contact the gallery: info@coopercolegallery.com +1.416.531.8000

Getting Inside the Ideas of Geoff McFetridge Geoff McFetridge paints the thought before a thought. Or a thought before it becomes a thought. He is sort of in the realm of what does infinity look like? Where does an idea end and begin; and what is an idea anyway? In recent years, Geoff has been open to articulation of his thought-process when painting, but he seems to making grander statements …
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Gravity Model at COOPER COLE To view the full post visit Art Viewer. For more information about the artists please contact the gallery: info@coopercolegallery.com +1.416.531.8000

‘The World that Belongs to Us’ traces the complexity of colonial history The intergenerational artists of the exhibition The World that Belongs to Us draw upon the nuanced colonial history to revisit its ramifications in current times. Exhibition view of works by Chila Kumari Singh Burman in The World that Belongs to Us, The New Art Gallery Walsall, UK Image: Courtesy of Jonathan Shaw By Dilpreet Bhullar The cultural history of England is synonymous with the cosmopolitan …
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Maureen Gruben | The land that used to be “Maureen Gruben at Qikuryuaq, Husky Lakes, May 7, 2023” (Photo: Kyra Kordoski) Land is fundamental to the work of Tuktoyaktuk-based artist Maureen Gruben. Often drawing on the intimacy of the handmade, Gruben’s work balances the vastness of tundra with the scales at which its inhabitants live with it. Engaging traditional materials, techniques and knowledge alongside the detritus of modern life, Gruben …
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