Cooper Holoweski

Small Editions is pleased to present the work of Cooper Holoweski. For Nostalgia and Obsolescence, Holoweski has created a new series of prints, developed in residence at the Lower East Side Print Shop, based on Giovanni Battista Piranesi’s suite of etchings, Antiquities of Rome, documenting the ruins of ancient Rome through landscapes, still life and diagrams. This series, called Recent Antiquities, combines traditional intaglio printmaking with digital 3-D modeling and inkjet printing to render the obsolete aesthetics of the late 1990’s and early 2000’s.

Reaching further into the recent past, Holoweski presents a painted series of Effigies of mid-century american modernist furniture. The stacked towers of chairs and tables create dreamlike “portraits” from the golden age of American Capitalism. Skillfully using acrylic paint in combination with computer-generated transfers, Holoweski renders views of the middle-class mythology of upward mobility in various states of collapse. As in most of Holoweski’s work, these pieces touch on ideas of death, rebirth, and relevance. Within them, Holoweski poses the question “is progress leading us towards redemption or something else darker?”

Cooper Holoweski (b. 1981, Detroit, Michigan) holds an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and has had residencies at Taller 99 in Santiago, Chile, Gallery Titanik in Turku, Finland, and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Recent exhibitions include: Divisions, Skowhegan 22nd Street, New York (2016); Renaissance, Lille3000 Triennial, Lille, France (2015); Noeticus, Sister, Brooklyn, New York (2015); The Viewing Room, GCA Gallery, Brooklyn, New York (2015);Near Dark, Present Company, Brooklyn, New York (2015); Katabasis, BRIC House, Silent Barn, PhilaMOCA, MOCAD (2013-2014); Let Our Love Guide You From This World to the Next, SPACE Gallery, Portland, Maine (2014); Things Were Perfect, Storefront, Brooklyn, New York (2011).