artist statement - Jacob Cooley
These paintings are informed by harmonious and hallowed places, landscapes
about contemplation and the spirit, but also about the transient, ephemeral
characteristics of light and darkness and ultimately, of life. This work
attempts to capture and hold the instant when the orange of the sun is about
to completely scatter into the diffused light of dusk, or the thunderclouds
move to entirely obscure the horizon. Moments.
I am revelling in what to me is basic, authentic, and profoundly essential
to issues of my consciousness - the infallible truths and deep-rooted
perpetuity of landscape
BIO:
Born in 1968 in Sydney, Australia. Received an MFA in painting from
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1993. Graduated in 1990 with
a BFA from University of Georgia, Athens. Studied at Antioch College in
Yellow Springs, Ohio from 1986-1988. Work is included in international
collections including The Nasher Museum of Art in Durham, NC, The Kenan
Institute for the Arts in Winston Salem, NC, and The Ford Motor Company
Worldwide Headquarters in Dearborn, MI. Lives and works in North Carolina.
PAST EXHIBITIONS:
2008 Timeless Landscapes, Firehouse Gallery, Damariscotta, ME
2008 Allen Sheppard Gallery, New York, NY
2007 The Ever Changing Landscape, Firehouse Gallery, Damariscotta, ME
2007 Travelogue, Tyndall Galleries, Chapel Hill, NC
2007 Atmpospheres - New Paintings, Center of the Earth Gallery, Charlotte, NC
2006 Les Saisons Des Arts, Cummer Museum of Art, Jacksonville, FL
2005 Planes of Color - Landscape Impressions, Firehouse Gallery, Damariscotta, ME
2005 New Paintings, Lyman - Eyer Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2005 Gathering, Fountainside Gallery, Wilmington, NC
2005 Jacob Cooley, Center of the Earth Gallery, Charlotte, NC
2004 Art of the Land, Bennett Galleries, Knoxville, TN
2004 Jacob Cooley, Lyman - Eyer Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2004 Solitary Landscape, Firehouse Gallery, Damariscotta, ME
2003 Shifted Perception/New Landscape, Allen Sheppard Gallery, New York, NY
2003 Ocean, Center of the Earth Gallery, Charlotte, NC
2003 Estuary, Fountainside Gallery, Wilmington, NC
2003 Jacob Cooley, Trinity Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2003 Pleasure Places, Center of the Earth Gallery, Charlotte, NC
2002 Marshes, Tyndall Galleries, Chapel Hill, NC
2002 The Contemporary Landscape: Jacob Cooley, Nancy Friese, Keith Jacobshagen, Joan
Nelson, Susan Shatter, Altoon Sultan, College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, OH,
Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH
2002 Southern Vistas - Interpreting the Landscape, Blue Spiral Gallery, Asheville, NC
2002 Jacob Cooley : New Work, Raleigh Contemporary Gallery, Raleigh, NC
2002 Art In Embassies, U.S. Embassy, Amman, Jordan
2001 New Paintings, Tyndall Galleries, Durham, NC
2001 Luminism/The Next Generation, Gallerie 454, Grosse Pointe, MI
2001 New Works, Blue Spiral Gallery, Asheville, NC
2001 Art In Embassies, U.S. Embassy, Canberra, Australia
2000 Jacob Cooley - Piedmont Landscapes, Raleigh Contemporary Gallery, Raleigh, NC
2000 Luminous, Tyndall Galleries, Durham, NC
2000 Painter's Series, Green Hill Center for NC Art, Greensboro, NC
1999 Exteriors, Tyndall Galleries, Durham, NC
1999 Larry Gray and Jacob Cooley, Trinity Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1999 A Landscape Renaissance, Center of the Earth Gallery, Charlotte, NC
1998 Jacob Cooley - Sense of Place, Tyndall Galleries, Durham, NC
1998 Southern Artists, Trinity Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1997 Jacob Cooley - The Floodplain Series, Durham Arts Council, Durham, NC
1997 8scapes, Trinity Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1997 Jacob Cooley - New Landscape, Brown Gallery, Duke University, Durham, NC
1997 Looking At Land, Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, NC
1996 Jacob Cooley - Landscape, Artomatic Gallery, Durham, NC
1996 Natural Forces : Josephine Bloodgood and Jacob Cooley, Sawtooth Center, Winston Salem,
NC
1996 National Works on Paper - Artists Listen To the Earth, Marsh Gallery, Univ. of Richmond,
Richmond, VA
1995 Art On Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC
1995 Jacob Cooley : A Midsummer Night's Dream, Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1995 Jacob Cooley and Carole Sue Lebbin, Gallery 500, Elkins Park, PA
1994 New Art In The Triangle, Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, NC
1993 Eight Artists Here and Now, Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC