New York-based artist Ethan Cook engages with materialism and minimalism through his two primary media, woven canvas and handmade paper. Cook\u2019s paintings are composed of colored fabric panels that\u00a0have been hand woven on a four-harness loom, stitched together, and stretched on bars. Foregoing\u00a0the notion that in order to paint one must apply pigment to canvas in some way \u2013 be it by brush, by\u00a0knife, or by hand \u2013 Cook instead uses a loom to weave large swaths of colored fabric that make up his\u00a0surfaces. For Cook, the performance of artmaking is at once meditative and intensely rhythmic. The\u00a0grandness of the loom, with its thousands of moving processes and parts, generates a symphony of\u00a0action that is both quick and unpredictable, developing a variety of idiosyncrasies like a pulled thread\u00a0or skipped knot, producing a variety of textures that reveal that the works are indeed, handmade.<\/p>\n
Ethan Cook (b. 1983, Tyler, Texas, US; lives and works in New York, NY, US) has had solo shows at Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles and Marfa; Half Gallery, New York; Andersen\u2019s Contemporary, Copenhagen; Galerie Philipp Zollinger, Zurich; T293, Rome; Loyal Gallery, Stockholm; Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles; Noire Chapel, Torino; Bill Brady, Miami; Sunday-S Gallery, Copenhagen; American Contemporary, New York; Galerie Jeanroch Dard, Paris; Rod Barton, London; Patrick de Brock Gallery, Knokke; and Gana Art Hannam, Seoul. \u00a0His work has been covered in the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, the Brooklyn Rail, Interview Magazine, Architectural Digest, among other publications.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" New York-based artist Ethan Cook engages with materialism and minimalism through his two primary media, woven canvas and handmade paper. Cook's paintings are composed of colored fabric panels that have been hand woven on a four-harness loom, stitched together, and stretched on bars. Foregoing the notion that in order to paint one must apply pigment to canvasContinue reading “Ethan Cook”<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":7361,"featured_media":15214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"country-region":[104],"class_list":["post-11638","artist","type-artist","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","country-region-united-states"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.art-ono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist\/11638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.art-ono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.art-ono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artist"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.art-ono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7361"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.art-ono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/my.art-ono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist\/11638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15217,"href":"https:\/\/my.art-ono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist\/11638\/revisions\/15217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.art-ono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.art-ono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.art-ono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country-region?post=11638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}