Tara Cooper / God Love Brigus II

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Alberta Printmakers

Tara Cooper will be giving an artist talk on her current exhibition God Love Brigus II on January 6, 2017 at Alberta Printmakers.

" In God Love Brigus II, Cooper presents an alluring representation of personal, historical and weather research that she collected during a 3 week residency with Landfall Trust at a 200-year-old cliff side cottage in Brigus, Newfoundland. In line with other Weather Girl explorations, this exhibition continues to blend a scientific perspective of weather with the human experience of it. Particularly noteworthy in this collective work, is that a discernable dichotomy between the two is almost entirely removed. In a way, Cooper is drawing us in, inviting us to vicariously experience and consider Brigus fully, as a “landscape where nature is at the helm,” and as a unique place where “fog lies thick on the harbor” and a clear distinction between history, weather and daily experience is notably obscured."

Tara Cooper works in a range of mediums from print, photography and video to installation and book arts. Her teaching experience encompasses time-based media (video, sound, animation), all print-related media (lithography, serigraphy, relief, intaglio, book arts and digital imaging), as well as contemporary art issues and theory. As an educator, she has worked with the following institutions: OCAD University, Sheridan College, the Canadian Art Foundation and the Art Gallery of Ontario. Currently, she works as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Fine Arts at the University of Waterloo.