ASHLEY NORWOOD COOPER
Cooperstown, NY
Past Exhibitions
Biography CV Statement
Press
Ashley Norwood Cooper’s large-scale imaginative oil paintings engender dialogue surrounding the history of male dominance in the art world while shedding light on the schizophrenic role of the artist-mother-wife-teacher.
photo credit: Grace Roselli, Pandora’s BoxX Project
Cooper applies thick paint by paintbrush, palette knife, or her own fingers, adding to the immediacy and idiosyncratic spirit of her work; she revels in the messiness of creation.
Through the heroic lens of the ordinary, Norwood Cooper creates expressive paintings that pulse with the idea that “nothing makes a mess like paint and life.”
RECENT EXHIBITS
FEATURED WORKS
“I paint to cope. Maybe if I had an easy time dealing with life, I would never have become an artist. There is so much uncertainty and there are so many people I worry about.”
– Ashley Norwood Cooper
WHITE CAT
16 X 20″ oil on panel
SOLD
THE GIRL’S ROOM
60 X 48″ oil on panel
SOLD
video capture of painting’s surface
RECENT PRESS
Ashley Norwood Cooper exhibited at ZINC contemporary in a two-person exhibition entitled COLOR COLOR in 2018 with ceramic artist Ling Chun. In 2020, ZINC represented Ashley Norwood Cooper at VOLTA NYC, where she debuted large-scale paintings that confronted the historic underrepresentation of women in the art world, through her comedic lens of the domestic.
