7 Jan 2012 to 11 Feb 2012
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Opening Saturday, January 7th from 6:00 - 8:00
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Kevin Cooley "Take Refuge" Kopeikin Gallery 7 Jan 2012 to 11 Feb 2012
Jan 7th - Feb 11th, 2012 Opening Saturday, January 7th from 6:00 - 8:00
Kopeikin Gallery is pleased to announce our first exhibition with artist Kevin Cooley. The exhibition "Take Refuge" features large scale photographs and videos evoking human struggles in the harsh and unforgiving, yet sublime,natural world. This body of work was created in disparate locations including the Arctic territory of Spitsbergen and the American West as well in more ordinary places such as New York City and Los Angeles. Referencing the Romantic movement in art and literature, the work attests to both the fear and longing nature inspires. The exhibition opens on Saturday, January 7th with a reception with the artist from 6:00 - 8:00 and continues through February 11th.
Kevin Cooley is a visual artist working in photography, video, and public installation. His work examines the interaction between the natural environment and the one that we fabricate. He makes use of unusual or overlooked moments in everyday life as meditation on our evolving relationship with technology, nature, and ultimately with each other.
Human presence and interventions in Cooley's landscapes range from the rudimentary actions of building fires, marking a path in a snowy landscape, and taking shelter in caves, to more sophisticated circumstances such as the flight patterns of commercial aircraft, an attempt to haul an iceberg away from a glacier, and a very powerful scientific laser beam piecing into the night sky. The Classical forces of nature (earth, fire, wind, water), are presented in contention with one another, or against a human figure, alluding to our physical and psychological attempts to understand our position in the universe and the obsession with exploring, conquering, and ultimately controlling it.
Cooley just completed his first public art project adjacent to and facing the Highline in New York City. "Remote Nation" evokes a physical manifestation of the abstract concept of television as the inhabitants of an entire high-rise apartment building appear to watch the same television station simultaneously. Viewers outside of the building are presented with an orchestrated display of the ambient televised light which appears to be organic, pulsing, breathing and changing color reminiscent of aurora borealis.
Cooley's work is included in the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, and the Schwartz Art Collection at Harvard Business School, Cambridge MA. His previous one person exhibitions include At Light's Edge, and Night Shift, Massimo Audiello, New York (2008, 2007); Bateaux Mouches, Ambrosino Gallery, Miami (2005); as well as the previously mentioned Remote Nation (2011). He recently completed the Arctic Circle Expeditionary Residency. He is a recipient of the Finishing Funds Grant from The Experimental Television Center (2011); Rema Hort Mann Grant (2005); and an Aaron Siskind Fellowship Grant (2004). He holds an MFA in Photography and Related Media from The School of Visual Arts, New York, NY (2000). Kevin Cooley's website is: http://www.kevincooley.net/
The Kopeikin Gallery is located at 2766 South La Cienega Blvd. The Gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday from 11:00 to 5:00. The phone is 323-683-7106. Email us at [email protected]. The website is www.kopeikingallery.com
