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Nino Mier Gallery is pleased to present Free Hand, our sixth solo exhibition with New York-based artist Ethan Cook. On view from April 4th through May 9th, Free Hand presents a new series of hand-woven paintings alongside never-before exhibited steel sculptures.
At the forefront of Cook’s distinctive approach to his work is the weaving of color as an entryway to making a painting. He begins with dyed cotton which becomes woven into form on a four-harness loom, then gets cut, sewn, stretched, and joined in a frame fabricated by the artist. By working around the conventional process of painting through a more technical and manual set of rules, the work becomes engaged in a conceptual conversation with the medium by building paintings from their often unacknowledged yet foundational constituents.
Cook has purposely strayed away from preconceived notions of how the finished paintings present themselves in Free Hand, leaving their ideation primari…
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Nino Mier Gallery is pleased to present Free Hand, our sixth solo exhibition with New York-based artist Ethan Cook. On view from April 4th through May 9th, Free Hand presents a new series of hand-woven paintings alongside never-before exhibited steel sculptures.
At the forefront of Cook’s distinctive approach to his work is the weaving of color as an entryway to making a painting. He begins with dyed cotton which becomes woven into form on a four-harness loom, then gets cut, sewn, stretched, and joined in a frame fabricated by the artist. By working around the conventional process of painting through a more technical and manual set of rules, the work becomes engaged in a conceptual conversation with the medium by building paintings from their often unacknowledged yet foundational constituents.
Cook has purposely strayed away from preconceived notions of how the finished paintings present themselves in Free Hand, leaving their ideation primari…
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