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Artworks
Ashley Norwood Cooper US, b. 1970
Beekeeper with Smoker, 2022oil on panel24 x 18 inches
61 x 45.7 cm.Currency:Further images
Exhibitions
SWARM | a solo exhibition at the Fenimore Art Museum | April-May, 2023
SWARM | a solo presentation with ZINC contemporary at VOLTA art fair May 2023
Greenville County Museum of Art presents | Ashley Norwood Cooper Jul 17, 2024 — Sep 8, 2024“I have many friends who keep bees on their small farms near Cooperstown. I started thinking about bees. How important they are, how sweet and scary at the same time....“I have many friends who keep bees on their small farms near Cooperstown. I started thinking about bees. How important they are, how sweet and scary at the same time. I was also thinking of poems about bees. In particular, Virgil’s Georgic IV, which is about beekeeping and Sylvia Plath’s bee poems. Bees seem to have an evocative, symbolic, archetypal effect on people. The Greeks thought that if a baby was stung on the lips by a bee, he would have the gift of poetry when he grew up. Virgil saw, among other things, the bees as a metaphor for the Roman people.” – Ashley Norwood Cooper
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