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More Info: Check out TRIANGLE OFFENSE (acrylic paint on clear
polyester film)
by abstract painter Shoshana Cooper at:
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Shoshana Cooper has been painting for eight years.
For the past several years, she has been studying at
the Arts Students League with John Hultburg, a former
student of Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still and Richard
Diebenkorn and with Fred Mitchell, a native of
Meridian, Mississippi, who was one of the pioneers at
Coentes Slipin lower Manhattan with Ellsworth Kelly
and Agnes Martin. Some of her early paintings were
included in a show celebrating Women's History Month
at the New York City Transit Authority and a recent
painting was selected to represent Fred Mitchell's
class in the 1998 -1999 Arts Students' League
catalogue.

Her work has been leaning toward the abstract for
some time, although figurative elements remain to a
varied degree. Last year, after seeing the Jasper
Johns show at the Museum of ModernArt, she became
intrigued by several of Johns' lesser known works
which were labeled as "acrylic on plastic" and "ink
on plastic". Since she was already using acrylic
paint at that time, she decided to try using a clear
plasticthat is very similar to mylar. Immediately,
she found that the paint moved more easily as it was
applied and when she turned the work over to the
opposite side, she discovered that the color was much
more intense.

She has since developed hertechnique so that the
verso (the unpainted side) is always the finished
product, although some paintings could have both
sides displayed. The results have been quite
striking, although there is very little resemblance
to the Johns works that originally inspired her. She
continues to experiment with new methods of applying
and removing paint to create varied effects. She
tries to make each work fresh and unique while
maintaining continuity of style.

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