WHO IS THIS SONG?
COOPER COLE•Sep 21, 2024 — Nov 09, 2024
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COOPER COLE is pleased to announce WHO IS THIS SONG?, the third solo exhibition by Kate Newby at the gallery. The following text by Natalie Power accompanies the exhibition.
The first time I meet Kate, she’s disembarking from a minivan, fresh off the heels of a cross-country pilgrimage. She’s carted her materials––boxes neatly crammed with ceramic and glass––from Texas to New York City, which is thick with late summer by now. But never mind August’s swampy inertia. There’s space to be dealt with.
First up is making rope. Lucky for us, Kate’s been to this rodeo before. She wields an iron thing with a crank, some object akin to farm equipment. She braids string through it, stations me across the room, and gets to spinning the farm thing’s arm. The strings bind and thicken between us. A rope is born.
This rope is then fed through glass, which we spend hours hoisting and lowering and pulling taut, midwifing the work into its precarious...More
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WHO IS THIS SONG?
COOPER COLE•Sep 21, 2024 — Nov 09, 2024
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COOPER COLE is pleased to announce WHO IS THIS SONG?, the third solo exhibition by Kate Newby at the gallery. The following text by Natalie Power accompanies the exhibition.
The first time I meet Kate, she’s disembarking from a minivan, fresh off the heels of a cross-country pilgrimage. She’s carted her materials––boxes neatly crammed with ceramic and glass––from Texas to New York City, which is thick with late summer by now. But never mind August’s swampy inertia. There’s space to be dealt with.
First up is making rope. Lucky for us, Kate’s been to this rodeo before. She wields an iron thing with a crank, some object akin to farm equipment. She braids string through it, stations me across the room, and gets to spinning the farm thing’s arm. The strings bind and thicken between us. A rope is born.
This rope is then fed through glass, which we spend hours hoisting and lowering and pulling taut, midwifing the work into its precarious...More
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