STATEMENT
The Birds of Appetite explores the idea of simultaneous divergence and intersection in relationships; the dichotomy between the synthetic and the real; romance and sex; the exchange of power between male and female bodies; the relationship of the body to landscape. These comparisons are used to express an overwhelming preoccupation with longing, desire, and the containment of wildness.
BIOGRAPHY
Helen Maurene Cooper was born in Philadelphia, PA in 1980. She received her BA from Bard College in African studies and photography in 2003. While in college Cooper studied and made work in Both Dakar and Berlin. She received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2007. Cooper currently lives in Chicago and teaches at Harold Washington and Wilbur Wright Colleges. Her work has been exhibited at the New Century Artist Gallery in New York, with the Mid-American Print Council at Murray State in Murray, KY, at the Midwives Gallery in Philadelphia, PA. In Chicago Cooper has shown at Estudiotres, Gallery 2, and Gallery X. In March of this year she was selected to participate 31 under 31: Young Women in Art Photography, curated by Humble Arts Foundation and held at 3rd Ward In Brooklyn. Cooper is one of three artists who will be featured in a multidisciplinary exhibition entitled Protagonist, Contemporar! y Art from America, opening May 24, curated by Emma Balazs at the Clare Morris Gallery in Ireland.
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HELEN MAURENE COOPER
Deep Inside Crystal Lake, 2007
From Birds of Appetite
Archival pigment print
Paper: 11 x 17
Image: 10.85 x 14
Signed and numbered
Edition of 10
$275.00 / purchase print
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