EXHIBITION IMAGES | PRESS RELEASE
56 HENRY STREET | NYC | Opening reception: 4 – 8 pm, Friday, March 4
For Armory Arts Week, Halsey McKay is pleased present an installation by Ian Cooper at 56 Henry Street. Timeline (Finish Him), 2015, incorporates quilted fabric elements as translations of the severe metal of a guillotine blade. The work implies durability and retractability – repeated usage extending into the past and future. A cache of broken finish line tape declares impending finality, or perhaps a retraction. Roll it up, fold it up, take it away. The installation will run from March 4 – 20.
A related edition, Nick, 2015, made from laser-cut paper, silkscreen and wax on handmade paper, published by Marginal Editions, will also be made available.
Ian Cooper has had solo exhibitions at Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton; Sandroni.Rey, Los Angeles; and CUE Arts Foundation, New York. His work has been exhibited both in the United States and abroad at such galleries and institutions as Canada, New York; Planthouse, New York; Tracy Williams, LTD, New York; Klaus von Nichtssagend, New York; Nice & Fit, Berlin; Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich; Locust Projects, Miami; Artist Curated Projects, Los Angeles;The Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati; and The Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt. Cooper’s work is in the permanent collection of The Whitney Museum of American Art and The Perez Art Museum in Miami.Ian Cooper was born in New York City in 1978, and now lives and works in Red Hook, Brooklyn. He is currently an MFA candidate at Bard College and is on the sculpture faculty at New York University.
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ALSO ON VIEW AT 56 HENRY: SADIE LASKA – A Foot, Some Guns, A Boot, Some Hands, Some Lips, A Breast & A Snail
ON VIEW IN EAST HAMPTON: DAVID B. SMITH – THE SEER and ASHLEY CARTER – A SHOT IN THE ARM