Casey Cook

March 22 - April 22, 2000
540 West 26th Street

Press Release

Lehmann Maupin is pleased to announce an exhibition of new paintings by the artist Casey Cook. This will be Cook's first one person show in New York. The exhibition will consist of large triptychs and diptychs done in acrylic on wood panel as well as smaller single panel works.

Casey Cook studied at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles and then received her MFA from UCLA in 1997. Before completing her degree, she had already begun showing her work in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Chicago. In New York, she was included in the exhibition of young Los Angeles painters curated by David Pagel at Deitch Projects in 1998. Since that time, she has continued to show in New York and Los Angeles as well as participate in shows abroad in Zurich and Turin. After leaving Los Angeles for an artist residency in Paris, Casey Cook now lives and works in New York.

Casey Cook's engaging combination of figure, line, and text create paintings that may read as abstract landscapes. Her chosen colors and images seem the most challenging as a starting point: the muted browns, greens, and maroons recall the environments of corporate lounges and cafeterias, while many of the images are culled from erotic depictions of women. The bland and cliché would seem to be emptied and impoverished as Roland Barthes would describe them, unproductive for an artist. However, Cook pursues her curiosity, orchestrating fields of mysterious enchantment. Lines are spliced askew and interrupted and images are repeated. Casey Cook dares herself to use flat colors and vacant signs. She reconsiders them in a new and impartial way to create a dark but alluring space - a dangerous romance.

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Exhibition Works

Whoa, 2000 acrylic on wood panel, triptych 95.50 x 143.25 inches (all 3 panels) 242.6 x 363.9 cm LM2133


I.C.U. (In Memory of Tiffany Dawn), 2000 acrylic on wood panel 95.5 x 144 inches (3 panels) 242.6 x 365.8 cm LM2203


Bobbie, 1999 acrylic on wood panel 24 x 24 inches 61 x 61 cm LM1560


Loquita, 2000 acrylic on wood panel 42 x 42 inches 106.7 x 106.7 cm LM2135


Madame Notions, 2000 acrylic on wood panel 47.5 x 47.5 inches 120.7 x 120.7 cm LM2157


In Dedication to Wonderment, 2000 acrylic on wood panel 47.5 x 47.5 inches 120.7 x 120.7 cm LM2204


Lazarus, 2000 acrylic on wood panel 42 x 42 inches 106.7 x 106.7 cm LM2136


Brenda Abbandandola (The return of Grace), 2000 acrylic on wood panel 95.5 x 95.5 inches (2 panels) 242.6 x 242.6 cm diptych LM2134


B.M.S. (in memory of...), 1999 acrylic on wood panel 42 x 42 inches 106.7 x 106.7 cm LM1561


Pray Hard (In Memory of Ms. Nothingness), 1999 acrylic on wood panel, diptych 84 x 84 inches (2 panels) 213.4 x 213.4 cm LM1691