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23lc
Neural Networks
Lia Cook
woven cotton and rayon
83" x 51" x 1.5", 2011
$25,000 |
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8lc Material Pleasures: Leonard I
Lia Cook, acrylic on linen, dyes on rayon; woven, 53” x 77”, 1993, $22,000
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13lc Through the Curtain in 5 Scenes Transposed
Lia Cook, dyes on rayon; woven, 5’ x 18.5’, 1986, $78,000 |
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1lc BINARY TRACES:
DREAM GIRL
Lia Cook
cotton
57" x 48”
144.75 x 122 cm, 2004
$16,000 |
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2lc SPATIAL IKAT II
Lia Cook
wool, cotton
10' x 8.5', 1977
$75,000
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12lc
Woven Form
Lia Cook
rayon, cotton; woven
45” x 53” 1980
$24,000 |
Selected collections and exhibition venues:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York; Museum Bellerive, Zurich, Switzerland; Museum of Arts and Design, New York, New York; Danish Musuem of Art & Design, Copenhagen, Denmark; French National Collection of Art, Paris, France; De Young Museum of Art, San Francisco, California; Renwick Gallery, National Gallery of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (Lia Cook: Material Allusions – traveling exhibition); Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio; Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China (From Lausanne to Beijing, International Fiber Art Biennial); National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (Transformations: The Language of Craft); Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery, Lincoln Nebraska (Lia Cook: In Touch, Faces and Mazes, traveling, solo exhibition); University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie (The Embedded Portrait, solo exhibition).
Recipient: Gold Medal: 5th International Fiber Art Biennial; Award, Flintridge Foundation; Fellowships, National Endowment for the Arts; Fellowship, California Council for the Arts.
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15lc PRESENCE/ABSENCE: IN THE FOLDS
Lia Cook, cotton, rayon; woven, 192” x 41”, 1997, $30,000 |
Statement:
My current practice incorporates concepts of cloth, touch, and memory. I use the detail, an intimate moment in time, often woven in oversize scale to intensify a shared emotional and sensual experience. I use a digital loom to weave images that are embedded in the structure of cloth. The digital pixel becomes a thread that when interlaced with another becomes both cloth and image at the same time. This woven image brings with it many of the sensual experiences that we associate with cloth. Childhood family snapshot and video stills are some of the raw materials that I draw on to investigate small, intimate details of the body or to capture a fleeting human expression My practice involves research into new technologies and new ways to translate my images that make the structure visible and physically felt, attempting to create the image as physical object.
Lia Cook
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4lc CRAZY QUILT: Royal Remnants
Lia Cook, acrylic on abaca, dyes on rayon; woven, 62” x 49” 1988, $18,000 |
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Lia Cook: The Embedded Portrait
The University of Wyoming Art Museum, May 23 - August 22, 2009 Chicago and East Galleries.
UW Art Museum, 2111 Willett Drive, Laramie, WY 82071, (307) 766-6622 |
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FACES
AND MAZES
LIA COOK
Textile Museum of Canada
55 Centre Avenue (Dundas St. W & University Ave., St. Patrick subway) Toronto, Ontario
M5G 2H5, Canada, 416.599.5321
http://www.textilemuseum.ca/apps/index.cfm?page=exhibition.detail&exhId=311 |
through October 17, 2010
Faces & Mazes is part of Person Place Thing, which also features exhibits of the work of David R. Harper and Steven Schofield. Cook, Harper and Schofield make work that is physically demanding and large in scale — wall-sized weavings of children’s and doll’s faces; sculptures of embroidered and taxidermied animals; and massive human figures made of textiles frozen in time. They draw the viewer into woven, embroidered and sewn narratives of nature, identity and history. As the faces in Lia Cook’s weavings fragment, a perceptual shift occurs, moving through a place of transition and ambiguity to reveal the physical, tactile nature of the constructed image. |
Gold Medal, 5th International Fiber Art Biennale
Lia Cook's work A-Maze Doll, was awarded
a Gold Medal at the 5th International Fiber Art Biennale in Beijing, China in December 2008. The exhibition, From Lausanne to Beijing, was held at the Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University. The work will be included in the traveling exhibition of Cook's work, Lia Cook: In Touch, Faces and Mazes, which opens in March 2009.
China Maze Doll
woven cotton & rayon
72 x 51"
2008
$22,000
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To purchase the artwork of Lia Cook
or to obtain information about other available works, contact:
Tom Grotta
browngrotta arts
or telephone
tel: 203-834-0623 or fax: 203-762-5981
www.browngrotta.com
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