EAF06: 2006 Emerging Artist Fellowship Exhibition


Ian Cooper

  

Doctor Is Out, 2006
Steel, screen print on MDO and acrylic mirror, enamel, hardware
7’5” x 7’ x 7’
Special Thanks: Douglas Fanning (DYAD Studio), Patrick Luangkhot (MiVizion Architectural Metals), Jim Campo (Custom Wood), Luther Davis (Axelle Editions), Robert Nachimson (E & T Plastics), Chris Brown

Based on Lucy’s psychiatric stand in the Charles Schultz Peanuts comic trip, this sculpture re-contextualizes, repurposes and adds a third dimension to a familiar icon. Here, the doctor is always “out” making us acutely aware of the absence of a human presence.

Born 1978, New York, NY
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY

Education
2000 B.S. New York University, New York, NY

Solo exhibitions include:
Ian Cooper, Constellations Align, Sandroni.Rey, Los Angeles, CA (2005)
Ian Cooper, Cue Art Foundation, New York, NY (2005)

Group exhibitions include:
Seven Seven: A Retrospective, Sandroni.Rey, Los Angeles (forthcoming) (2006)
Annotations / Bronnen, Expodium, Utrecht (2006)
Youth of Today, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany (2006)
Yvonne’s Window, Copenhagen, Denmark (2006)
Between the Spokes, KS Art, New York, NY (2006)
Star Star: Toward the Center of Attention, Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, (2005)
I Am The Resurection, Locust Projects, Miami, FL (2004)
Let the Bullshit Run a Marathon, Nicole Klagsbrun, New York, NY (2004)
Video (Por)Traits, Art In General, New York, NY (2004)
Holiday Shopping Show II, Wallspace, New York, NY (2003)
Attack! The Kult 48 Klubhouse, Deitch Projects, Brooklyn, NY (2003)
Teenage Rebel: The Bedroom Show, Agnes B. Galerie du Jour, Paris, France (2003)
Now Playing: Daniel Reich, K48, John Connelly Presents, D’Amelio Terras, New York, NY (2003)
The Worst of Gordon Pym continued…, Printed Matter, New York, NY (2001)
To Market, To Market, Rotunda Gallery, New York, NY (2001)
Snap Shot, Baltimore Museum of Contemporary Art, Maryland (2000)
Sophie Spar Sale, Printed Matter, New York, NY (2000)

Residencies include:
We Are Seven, Grizedale Arts Residency in association with The Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere, England (2005)