MARY COOK is a Brooklyn-based artist that works primarily with drawing materials and most recently has expanded her practice to an interdisciplinary approach to incorporate sculpture and sound into her work. Incorporating the drawn figure with hand-crafted abstractions, using string she makes installations that are inspired by the experience of cinema and the ocean.

The ocean has always been fascinating to Mary. Growing up on Coronado Island in California with visits to Acquidneck Island in Rhode Island, the ocean has been  a favorite place for Mary to go to think, draw, paint and photograph. Among many things the ocean can be gentle ­–-but powerful and even seemingly abrupt with its constant reformation. It can be touched but never held. It is immediate. Often taking pre-existing images from film, the images that Mary creates are concerned with the primordial passions of ecstasy, horror and sensuality. Dramatic, gestural, and rhythmic, Mary’s drawing and installation work is an energetic depiction of representational forms and their emotive qualities.  The ocean is a platform for her imagination. Mary is also greatly inspired by images from films.

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