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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in the studio
new works in progress
new drawings in progress in the new studio
“Luminescence #2”, graphite on paper, 50” x 50”
“Luminescence #1”, graphite on paper, 50” x 50”
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.
Luminescence in the Studio
two 50” x 50” graphite drawings
the inevitable trails in a bedroom-studio
“Surfaced”, six 49” x 38” graphite drawings
Melissa Cooke, in the studio
double decker drawings in the studio
Studio Updates!
“Just a Taste”, graphite on paper, 45” x 65”
“Dead Friend”, graphite on paper, 38” x 38”
“Dead Friend”, graphite on paper, 38” x 38”
