Heather Cook

Heather Cook uses the physical qualities of fabric to construct 2-dimensional images.  Many of her pieces are created by first folding fabric, and then spraying them with bleach.  The work is then separated and hung on the wall.  The outcome is an image of the fabric’s prior folded state.  The bleach subtracts the color from the material, which in exchange adds a visual history onto its surface.  The fabric hangs loosely on the wall allowing for both the actual fold, and the image of the fold to be both present.
Cook’s work is a concentration on the properties and various meanings that the fold can take.  It can be both a noun and a verb, which allows it to easily shift back and forth between grammars.  This ability to simultaneously be a thing and an action expresses how a fold can alter its form, as well as alter form on several different levels.  It can be both a process and an object.  Like the idea of the fold, Cook’s work tends to shift from material/image, interior/exterior, 3D/2D, positive/negative, and surface/support.
Solo Exhibitions:

2009 Filling Subtraction, Light & Wire, http://www.lightandwiregallery.com
2007 UN|FOLDING, MFA Thesis show, Art Center College of Design Pasadena, CA

Group Exhibitions:

2009 Abstract Abstract, Foxy Production, New York
BOOFTHLE BOOTH, Pauline Gallery, Los Angeles
2008 Samedi/Samedi, Galerie Art:Concept, Paris
Group Show with Andre Butzer, Los Angeles
The Soft Underbelly of Recognition, curated by Sarah Lehrer-Gralwer,Little Tree Gallery, San Francisco

2007 No Jerks, Trudi Gallery at Rental, New York
Where was I?  Bag of Pockets: The art of semi-autonomy, curated by Joshua Nathanson, Pauline Gallery, Los A

         
Place of Birth:  Dallas, Texas, USA
Now living: Los Angeles, CA, USA