Auction: Abstract Painting Shoshana Cooper's STAL...

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Opening: $200.00
Quantity: 1
Expires: 1998-11-19
Buyline: Abstract Painting Shoshana Cooper's STALKINGS

More Info: STALKINGS (acrylic paint on clear polyester film),
19x24" (minus 2-3" border),
by abstract painter Shoshana Cooper.

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 Slip in 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
November, after
seeing the Jasper Johns show at the Museum of Modern
Art, 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
plastic that 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.

Shehas since developed her technique 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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