About
Melissa Cooke is a young, up-and-coming player on the international art scene. Her powdered graphite on paper works explore themes of beauty, fantasy, violence, and identity, with the artist casting herself as subject in a myriad of thematic scenarios. Her work confronts the viewer, both with scale and stirring reflections of relationships, sexuality and gender. Her drawings are attracting attention from major art galleries, museums and collectors in Chicago, LA and NYC. Cooke is represented by Koplin Del Rio in Los Angeles, CA and Jenkins Johnson Gallery in New York, NY.
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My last day as an Artist-In-Residence at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art.
There was such a rad base of graphite in the studio, that I left this signature on the floor.
“Surfaced”, six 49” x 38” graphite drawings
Melissa Cooke, in the studio
double decker drawings in the studio
Inside my studio at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art.
Many new graphite drawings in the works!
THE NEW STUDIO
Graphite trails and fresh works abound!
“And No One Won”, graphite on paper, 49” x 38”
MOVED!
For the next three months, the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art in Omaha, Nebraska will be my home. The studio is my dream quarters: spacious, bright, and full of possibilities. So excited to start laying down some graphite!
(Source: melissacookeart.com)
