Diana Cooper "My Eye Travels"
Postmasters Gallery
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Postmasters Gallery presents a solo exhibition of new works by Diana Cooper represented by Postmasters since 1999; her last show at the gallery took place in 2008.
Fellow artist Oliver Herring on Diana Cooper:
“I learned to love how Diana sees scrappy detail and opportunity in everything and everywhere. If you ever have a chance to take a stroll with her through an urban landscape, do it. You won’t look at that blighted lot or that rusty street curb quite the same afterwards.” (Artnews, December 2012**)
In the My Eye Travels* exhibition, Cooper offers an implausible environment, a transformed place that is never set and never stable. She brings together groups of photographs, photo-collages and spatial hybrid constructions that in an accumulative way convey a disorienting imaginary landscape. The works that incorporate images of sky, water, manmade objects and transitional sites are further de-stabilized by relocated and multiplied “photographic ghosts” from the gallery space itself: outlets, surveillance system, skylights and vents.
In her own words: I am fascinated by the interconnectedness of manmade structures/systems and those found in the natural world. I am increasingly drawn to the sometimes beautiful and sometimes tortured way that nature exists in contemporary environments, whether it be a huge plant stuck inside of a 21st century airport, or vines that resemble a chain link fence, or an abandoned bulldozed lot that unintentionally becomes a garden where weeds grow to the size of trees. My aim is to explore the strangeness of transitional spaces and the wonder they provoke.
*My Eye Travels - the title of this exhibition is taken from one of Diana Cooper's well known works from 2002 that, along with many others, was destroyed in the flood in her storage during Hurricane Sandy. It is a fitting personal memorial to a beautiful artwork that no longer exists.
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Schedule
from January 05, 2013 to February 09, 2013
Opening Reception on 2013-01-05 from 18:00 to 20:00