DIANA COOPER
From Here to There, 2002. Lithographic three-dimensional collage assembled from mylar, handmade papers from Dieu Donne Papermill, and printed elements on white Rives BFK and black Moriki rice paper mounted on archival tycore panel. 16.25 x 15 x 1 in. Edition of 35.
FROM HERE TO THERE, 2002
In this three-dimensional lithograph/collage hybrid, Diana Cooper expands on the vocabulary developed in her elaborate drawing installations. The artist began by drawing with ink pens onto lithography plates which were then printed in blue, green, black, and indigo onto white paper and transparent clear mylar. These prints served as the basis of the image. She then made a collage by cutting out and reassembling the printed materials. Hand-made paper, white printing paper, black Moriki rice paper became the building blocks of her print/sculpture. As one moves around the piece, one can see layers of three-dimensional shape, cut-out windows revealing another printed shape beneath. The whole piece is mounted onto archival Tycore panel. The artist has arranged a world for the viewer to engage in, to get lost in. The transparent printed shapes change as the viewer moves from one perspective to another around the piece.
– Andrew Mockler
B. 1964
Diana Cooper received her BA at Harvard College and MFA at Hunter College. Her work draws on the worlds of architecture, maps, diagrams, urban spaces, etc. to create hybrid drawing, painting, sculptures, and installations. Occupying a place between the wall and the room, the work comprises the building blocks and linear networks that constitute its own language of form. In her printed work, parts of prints on various materials are combined together to form three-dimensional multiples. Cooper’s work has been exhibited in museum shows, including. The Logic of Paper: American Works on Paper, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzen, China(2010); Beyond the Line: The Art of Diana Cooper,Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, OH (2007); Four Rooms: Erwan Ballan, Diana Cooper, Flavio Favelli and Jim Lambie, Museo Il Filatoio, Caralio, Italy.Her solo gallery exhibitions include Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY; New York Studio School Gallery, New York, NY; theDrawing Room, London, UK; Galerie Staub, Zurich; Wimbledon School of Art, London, UK; Galerie Evelyne Canus, Paris, France and many more. Her numerous awards include a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, The Rome Prize, American Academy in Rome, New York Foundation for the Arts, and a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant.