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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“Hosed”
graphite on paper, 50 x 38”
“Too Much, But Never Enough (Drowning in LOKO)”
graphite on paper, 50 x 38”
“That Girl”
graphite on paper, 50 x 38”
That Girl
photo shoot for “Easy is a Complicated Word”
cornered
Completed yesterday: “Full of Me”, graphite on paper, 50” x 38”.
Another drawing is in the works~ along with a newfound technique that has me flying high and fast.
