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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The Inventory:
An epic photo project documenting all my personal belongings. Over the past two weeks, I have been photographing every eraser, every sock, every mask that I own. Everything. A true test of endurance, reflection, and obsession.
A website containing all the photographs is in the works.
And many drawing projects are in the queue!
side project: altered photographs
Lost Inside You : The Photographs
Art Lofts Gallery, University of Wisconsin
That Girl
photo shoot for “Easy is a Complicated Word”
too much, but never enough
photo shoot, drowning in four LOKO
