Online Nigel Cooke In Focus Feb 17 – Mar 19, 2022 Nigel Cooke, Rubino Zancuda, 2021, Acrylic on cotton blotting paper, 160 cm × 116 cm (63" × 45-11/16") 167.2 cm × 123.2 cm × 5.5 cm (65-13/16" × 48-1/2" × 2-3/16"), framed Learn More Nigel Cooke is known for his complex, layered, and evocative works on canvas and paper. Through his practice, the artist mines multifarious histories, systems, and sciences to create a visual language that blurs the boundary between abstraction and figuration. Cooke draws inspiration for his work from paleontology, neuroscience, classical mythology, zoology, and other sources to tell stories about individual and collective experiences. Close modal View Previous View Next Carousel slide 0 Carousel slide 1 Nigel Cooke Rubino Zancuda 2021 Acrylic on cotton blotting paper 160 cm × 116 cm (63" × 45-11/16") 167.2 cm × 123.2 cm × 5.5 cm (65-13/16" × 48-1/2" × 2-3/16"), framed Inquire How can we reach you? First Name* Last Name* Email* Phone Inquiry Message Have you purchased from Pace before?* Yes No Submit Inquiry Or go back Nigel Cooke, Rubino Mariposa, 2021, Acrylic on cotton blotting paper, 160 cm × 116 cm (63" × 45-11/16") 167.2 cm × 123.2 cm × 5.5 cm (65-13/16" × 48-1/2" × 2-3/16"), framed Learn More In conjunction with Pace’s in-person presentation of recent works by Cooke at its Palm Beach gallery, this online exhibition spotlights four large-scale works on paper from the artist’s Rubino series. With these works, the artist uses linear forms to explore natural and psychic landscapes. Their dynamic, energetic compositions are informed by the artist’s experiences in the Italian Alps and on Spanish islands, where he created small plein-air watercolors upon which the larger pieces are based. Close modal View Previous View Next Carousel slide 0 Carousel slide 1 Nigel Cooke Rubino Mariposa 2021 Acrylic on cotton blotting paper 160 cm × 116 cm (63" × 45-11/16") 167.2 cm × 123.2 cm × 5.5 cm (65-13/16" × 48-1/2" × 2-3/16"), framed Inquire How can we reach you? First Name* Last Name* Email* Phone Inquiry Message Have you purchased from Pace before?* Yes No Submit Inquiry Or go back Nigel Cooke, Rubino Cascada, 2021, Acrylic on cotton blotting paper, 160 cm × 116 cm (63" × 45-11/16") 167.2 cm × 123.2 cm × 5.5 cm (65-13/16" × 48-1/2" × 2-3/16"), framed Learn More While these works on paper appear largely abstract, they are deeply engaged with Cooke’s encounters and memories of various sites worldwide. The title of the series refers to the rich red color that r that anchors each work, and varied secondary titles reference in Spanish, the subject matter of the pieces. Painterly and visceral, these works contain secrets that are poised to be unearthed, deriving their power from subtlety and suggestion.“I try to capture this tangle of things in coded marks, developing them as I go until they talk to me in their own terms, in a kind of private language that makes some sense to me in ways I couldn’t explain,” the artist has said of the Rubino series. “It starts to speak of what living feels like, what it is to see things in many ways at once.” Close modal View Previous View Next Carousel slide 0 Carousel slide 1 Nigel Cooke Rubino Cascada 2021 Acrylic on cotton blotting paper 160 cm × 116 cm (63" × 45-11/16") 167.2 cm × 123.2 cm × 5.5 cm (65-13/16" × 48-1/2" × 2-3/16"), framed Inquire How can we reach you? First Name* Last Name* Email* Phone Inquiry Message Have you purchased from Pace before?* Yes No Submit Inquiry Or go back Nigel Cooke, Rubino Flores, 2021, Acrylic on cotton blotting paper, 160 cm × 116 cm (63" × 45-11/16") 167.2 cm × 123.2 cm × 5.5 cm (65-13/16" × 48-1/2" × 2-3/16"), framed Learn More Cooke’s strokes of various weights also convey messages about the human condition. As the artist once said, “For me, the line is endlessly mysterious—it is sometimes striving and obliterating, but elsewhere it becomes halting, broken, or wilted, fragile—and it’s hard to know why … To me, this dialogue recalls human relations, and the inner life of the individual subject, as much as the ecosystems and cultural frameworks the self-negotiates in the world every day. Like dissonant and harmonious musical notes, the personality of the line has the power to capture the essence of our most basic and timeless triumphs and disasters.” Close modal View Previous View Next Carousel slide 0 Carousel slide 1 Nigel Cooke Rubino Flores 2021 Acrylic on cotton blotting paper 160 cm × 116 cm (63" × 45-11/16") 167.2 cm × 123.2 cm × 5.5 cm (65-13/16" × 48-1/2" × 2-3/16"), framed Inquire How can we reach you? First Name* Last Name* Email* Phone Inquiry Message Have you purchased from Pace before?* Yes No Submit Inquiry Or go back To inquire about works by Nigel Cooke, please email us at inquiries@pacegallery.com. Read More Journal View All Films A Conversation Between Nigel Cooke, Robert Macfarlane and Max Porter Jun 01, 2023 Essays ‘The Complexity of Life Is Inspiration’: Nigel Cooke on Painting, Mystery, and Myth May 09, 2023 Films Explore "How the World Became Natural" with Nigel Cooke May 09, 2023 Essays Nigel Cooke on Atlas with Butterfly Nov 08, 2022 Past, Nigel Cooke, In Focus, Feb 17, 2022