Kevin Cooley

Born:
1974
Residence:
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Nationality:
American
Trust:
APT New York
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  • Kopeikin Gallery, LA is presenting a group show at The Photography Show, New York through April 2, 2017.

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  • With its crowded avenues and towering architecture, moments of calm and reflection are not easy to come by in New York City.

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  • Moti Shniberg shuffles through the lobby of the trendy Manhattan building where his company is based to a quiet corner table. A boyish 41-year-old with red hair and a soft Israeli accent

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  • “Sleeping Bear Dune Lakeshore,” a large-scale landscape quilt by Ann Loveless of Frankfort, has won the $200,000 public vote

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  • Kevin Cooley’s “Skyward” makes a perfect endpoint to “Suspension,” an absorbing, two-person show of recent video works

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  • We are pleased to announce We’ve All Got Issues: Video Art from the APT Collection the first ever online, selling exhibition of video art featuring 16 videos by an international roster of member artists from Artist Pension Trust® (APT). The show is hosted by MutualArt.com and will be up for a period of two weeks from May 29 to June 12, 2014. All works will be shown in their full-length versions and made available for purchase through the website.

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  • “Sleeping Bear Dune Lakeshore,” a large-scale landscape quilt by Ann Loveless of Frankfort, has won the $200,000 public vote

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  • Kevin Cooley’s “Skyward” makes a perfect endpoint to “Suspension,” an absorbing, two-person show of recent video works

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  • Kevin Cooley presents his stunning photographs from his Night for Night series in Aesthetica Issue 51. His largescale video installation, Skyward, is

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  • Sometimes, a stunning series of photographs doesn’t take much altering or fancy equipment. In Kevin Cooley’s case, all he needed was an emergency flare, a snow-covered landscape, and a camera that allowed him to take long-exposure shots as he fired said flare into the sky.

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  • Some of the world’s top business schools have built extensive - and sometimes surprising - art collections. What artworks do they contain, why were these chosen and what do they reveal about the schools?

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  • There was a great line we once read about one of our favorite photographers right now, Kevin Cooley: he uses "the night sky like a giant canvass

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  • Make sure to catch Kevin Cooley’s gorgeous show at Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles up until February 11th of next month. Titled Take Refuge

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  • Having spent nearly two days last week surveying many of the 1,500 works of contemporary art on view at ArtPrize,

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BIOGRAPHY

Kevin Cooley received a BA in International Affairs from Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon in 1997 and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York in 2000. Selected solo exhibitions include Massimo Audiello Gallery, White Columns and Momenta Gallery in New York and Ambrosino Gallery in Miami. He has been an Artist in Residence at Klondike Institute of Art and Culture, Herhusid Artist Residency, Caldera Artist Residency, and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace in New York. His work is in the collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and The Schwartz Art Collection. Kevin Cooley lives and works in Brooklyn.


Inspired by the Romantic tradition of landscape, Kevin Cooley enriches this visual history with contemporary concerns. Nature is the muse, and man is the explorer, and transformer. Ideas of human versus nature, the sometimes tragic struggles of the human condition and the notion of the sublime are very evident in his work. Making art for Cooley is a lonely task, infused with silence and meditation. This contemplative mood, along with a sense of wonder and fear, permeates through all of his bodies of work.
 


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