COOPER received a MFA from University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa and a BFA from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn. Select recent exhibitions include "COOPER-Seven years bad luck," Fredric Snitzer Gallery, "COOPER-I see a red door and I want to paint it black," Dwight Hackett Projects, and "CoDependent," Bas Fischer Invitational. COOPER is also the founder and co-director of Locust Projects, an alternative non-profit exhibition venue in Miami, Florida. COOPER is represented by Snitzer Gallery and Dwight Hackett Projects. COOPER lives and works in Florida and New Mexico.
COOPER’s work with found objects, painting, sculpture and video is an unsettling look into society and its darkness. COOPER explores the places and ideas we can never truly know, from what lies beneath the ground to the realm of death. The titles of his pieces work to create a further sense of disorienting dread. They are dark, complex strings of horrifying phrases that create a syntax and reference for the dark themes COOPER tackles in his objects. Sound also play an integral role in the staggering mixed media installments. Power and the evilness it breeds are constant characters in his works, which invoke fear and a sense of ambiguity, as he evokes the horrors of America from war and torture to assassination and rape. COOPER portrays and performs our worst fears, capturing our anxieties and mistakes.
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![COOPER - Claiming all of US-1 as my own sovereign territory [...]](c/1bb84685f225a3c8d47c643cb2fa5e50c512a57e77_320x182_f_88.jpg "COOPER - Claiming all of US-1 as my own sovereign territory [...]")
![COOPER - Miner poems about the coal mining itself in abandoned shafts, sealed from above [...]](c/a1ff23cf124216710860d00e9ad1407b1d9ed5f078_320x182_f_88.jpg "COOPER - Miner poems about the coal mining itself in abandoned shafts, sealed from above [...]")
