This minimalist artwork features a captivating monochrome composition. The visual elements include a combination of geometric shapes, patterns, and lines, creating a sense of depth and movement within the frame. The subject matter depicts an abstract landscape with a geometric structure, evoking a sense of urban architecture or industrial design. The artistic style and technique employ a unique woodcut-like process, resulting in a bold, graphic quality that emphasizes the interplay of light and shadow. This piece likely reflects the artist's intention to explore the intersection of nature and the built environment through a reductive, modernist aesthetic. ...
Emma cc Cook’s practice focuses on drawing and painting, examining the concept of "archaeologies of place" in America. Through her pieces, Cook depicts landscapes that have been stripped of their defining features by capitalism and monoculture and highlights the chaotic nature of archives and how a nation can excessively control its citizens. Her practice is a comprehensive collection of signifiers and materials, including the use of mahogany wood, which has a history of being exploited by colonizing Europeans, and black wool canvases sourced from Europe. Drawing inspiration from Hanne Darboven's Cultural History 1893-1983, Cook uses a combination of historical and personal elements, such as artwork and postcards, to reflect the myth of America. By assembling a representation of America and her connection to it through a mixture of the significant and the insignificant, she incorporates overlooked and memorable items with found objects and elements of American folk art in her paintings.
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