Elizabeth Cooper
Michaela L. Vergottis is pleased to bring to the heart of London, Elizabeth Cooper’s large-scale canvases. This is Elizabeth Cooper’s first solo exhibition in London, where some of the most signature pieces have been brought to fill the walls of Old Brompton Gallery.
Spotted in the ‘New York Paintings’ exhibition in the Kunst Mueseum Bonn, alongside, Jo Bradley, Eddie Martinez, Matt Connors, Ned Vena and many more.
Elizabeth’ brings the boldness of her stroke and colour to a city that is as vibrant and multi-layered as her own work. The large formats enhance her approach to abstraction with her unique expressionistic and gestural style, while the vertical ones recall Asian scroll paintings.
As the viewer will be able to see in this series, the high-keyed primaries and secondary complementary colours are tweaked in various directions to create a strong contrast with the more low-saturated organic backgrounds. The splatters of paint evolve in upwards explosions that expand in the canvases creating movement within the forms and volumes created.
Elizabeth’s paintings blend elements of landscape and figuration punctuate the bright pours of colour and stories can almost be plucked out of the swirls of paint. portraying a recognisable historical genre like abstract expressionism.
Illustrated work:
"Untitled "
Oil and enamel on canvas
45.7 × 45.7 cm.
Press article: Kensington and Chelsea magazine, December 2015, page 57: www.issuu.com/runwildmedia/docs/k_c_dec_issuu
About
Elizabeth Cooper was born in 1972 in New York City. She lives and works in Brooklyn. Elizabeth has a BFA from The Cooper Union and and MFA from Columbia University. She attended the prestigious Skowhegan School of Painting in Maine and has received The Pollock Krasner Award for her paintings. She has received residencies from The Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation and P S 1 Museum. Her paintings blend elements of recognizable historical genres like abstract expressionism, color field and pop art with a personal lyrical abstraction both powerful and comical. Elements of landscape and figuration punctuate the bright pours of color and stories can almost be plucked out of the swirls of paint. Her work has been exhibited internationally in galleries and museums as well as art fairs and been reviewed in many magazine and publications including The New York Times, Art In America and Kunstforum. Elizabeth's work has appeared in shows at The National Academy Museum in New York, The Neue Museum, Nurnberg, The Kunstmuseum St Gallen, Switzerland, PS 1/MOMA, New York, Artist's Space, NY, Magazin 4-Bregenzer Kunstverein, Austria, Hausler Contemporary, Munich, Galerie Rolf Ricke of Cologne, Galerie Gisele Linder, Basel, Galerie Anke Schmidt, Cologne, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris, Galerie Frank Schlag and Cie., Essen, Les Filles Du Calvaire, Brussels, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac of Salzburg, Galerie Schmidt Maczollek of Cologne, DC Moore Gallery, NY, Kunsthalle Ravensberg, Austria, Thrust Projects, NY and Lesley Heller Gallery in NY as well as at Art Basel, Art Cologne, FIAC and Art Brussels among others. Her was is featured in the "New York Painting" at The Kunstmuseum Bonn 2015.
Visit the artist webpage at www.elizabethcooperart.com/home.html