Cooper (artist)
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| Born | Brian Cooper 1976 Miami, Florida |
| Nationality | American |
| Known for | Installation art, performance, photography, sculpture, film, video, sound |
Cooper (stylized as COOPER; born Brian Cooper, 1976) is an American artist known for sculptures and assemblages He lives and works in Alaska.
Early life[edit]
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Cooper was born and raised in Miami, Florida. He changed his name to a mononymous title in all capital letters in 1993. Graduated from the New World School of the Arts in 1995, received a BFA from the Pratt Institute in 1997, and an MFA from the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa in 1999.
Career[edit]
Cooper's work has been published in Miami Contemporary Artists by Paul Clemence, Julie Davidow, and Elisa Turner and in Bonnie Clearwater's book Making Art in Miami, Travels in Hyper-reality, as well as Art in America, Sculpture Magazine, Art Papers, ArtNews, The New York Times, The Village Voice, Santa Fe Reporter and The Miami Herald.[citation needed]
Cooper's works are in the Rubell Family Collection and Miami Art Museum in Miami, Florida. In 2002, he received a Miami-Dade County site-specific arts commission.[citation needed]
In March 2005, the Fredric Snitzer Gallery in Miami exhibited Cooper's solo show titled "Whiskey for a Red Dawn" at which the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, acquired a large scale drawing titled "The finest palaces always make the most impressive ruins. So spend your money as fast as possible, and always use some sort of gold appliqué."[1] Art writer Jocelyn Adele Gonzalez comments, "The work is simultaneously humorous and distressing, and at some point lies on the edge of being socio-political."[2]
In May 2007, Dwight Hackett Projects exhibited a solo show of Cooper's sculpture called "I see a Red Door and want to Paint it Black". This exhibition included the piece titled "Dead Ringer, Low E is the Sound of Black" consisting of a baby grand piano buried underneath the gallery in a makeshift concrete tomb, a live video image of the piano was viewable on a flat screen television above the buried chamber, and a single piano key could be reached by the audience via a ground penetrating sword-like protrusion.[3]
Awards and honors[edit]
- 2012: South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship for Visual and Media Artists[citation needed]
- 1997: Charles Pratt Scholarship, Pratt Institute, New York City, New York[citation needed]
References[edit]
- ^ The Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami's quarterly report dated January 2008[non-primary source needed]
- ^ "COOPER at Fredric Snitzer Gallery" by Jocelyn Adele Gonzalez, Independent Review May 2001.
- ^ "Loud and Dirty" by Zane Fisher, The Santa Fe Reporter, May 2007.