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4 0 obj Michael Cooper For more details please contact Michael at 908.752.7190 or michael@cooper247.com.
%��������� ", Pausing in the winery's handsome tasting room, looking through French doors out into a courtyard that will allow Art + Architecture revelers to spill out among the evening's special sculpture, Maus sighs. Thursday-Monday (closed Tuesday & Wednesday), The Quicksilver Mine Co. The Art + Architecture fundraiser for the Petaluma Art Center is slated for Saturday, Oct. 28, from 5pm to 8pm. Box 844 © Sonoma's Own 559 likes. Hours 11-6 "Art," she says directly, "is what makes us civilized.". Also included in this Show is a large figurative piece he calls Self Portrait, juxtaposing sculptural form against geometric structure to create an elegant, humorous, and slightly off kilter persona. His focus is largely animals, birds and the human form. He is the recipient of numerous grants and awards, and has exhibited widely in the United States, Australia and England. That way, he reasoned, he'd get to know them better. 707.766.5200. << /Length 5 0 R /Filter /FlateDecode >> Michael has exhibited since 1974, in a wide variety of venues including London and Jersey Zoos, the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, the Royal Academy of Arts, Gloucester Cathedral Crucible exhibitions and Gallery Pangolin. He taught art and design for 34 years at De Anza and Foothill Colleges, and the California College of Art in San Francisco.
He uses metal-working tools to cut wood; he weds exquisite quilted maple pieces to aluminum sprayed with auto paint; and he puts toothy spikes into his chairs just where a casual sitter might mistakenly lean to relax. Forestville, CA 95436.
In addition to his own and Cooper's sculptures, contributing are Sonoma painter Chester Arnold, Santa Rosa ceramicist Todd Barricklow, Sonoma Valley stone sculptor Gilham Erickson, Napa sculptor Gordon Huether, Cazadero wood sculptor Bruce Johnson, Sebastopol environmental artist Ned Kahn and Sonoma Valley found-metal sculptor Brian Tedrick. Ostensibly a chair, but so tricked out with engines and widgets that it will literally hop when revved, the piece, called Ride, is one of the only works that Cooper has placed out in the art world. Byck's eyes held a certain gleam that those who know the good doctor understand means this advice should be heeded.
Byck says that he just wanted to make friends, so he invited all of his favorite sculptors to participate in the yearlong multi-venue event. » Arts. Outdoor Sculpture & Mural Jersey City, NJ, Traffic Box artwork, 2020 Millburn New Jersey, sculpture for park candidate, 2020 Eastern Virginia Medical School, VA, sculpture proposal, 2020 Hoboken, NJ, Utility Box artwork proposal, 2020 Walking through the chilly wine caves with Keller staffer Sandy Maus, Hamilton says that the proposed Petaluma Arts Center is "one of the best community-minded projects I know of. When Byck found him last year and began beaming that meaningful gleam, Cooper barely knew anyone north of the Golden Gate and had not shown much at all.
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"It's exactly the kind of piece you can never sell.". Photograph courtesy Michael Cooper Chassis: Nearing completion, Cooper's massive car is entirely made of cunningly design wood pieces. Which brings us back to his introduction.
The Show will continue through July 8th.
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Michael works in a variety of materials including marble, stone, bronze and silver. Such tumbledown description is a contrast to the serene order that Cooper instills in his work and his life. Elsewhere in the studio sits GMO, a hybrid chair that has a seat and a back and two arms, but whose manifestation as a possible piece of furniture ends there. The visitor looks around the studio.
He taught art and design for 34 years at De Anza and Foothill Colleges, and the California College of Art in San Francisco.
– Michael Cooper. Cooper shows a photograph of a 7-by-8-foot sculpture currently on loan to the Oakland Museum. Which is why, of course, we're so eager to make the introduction. Sculpture in marble, stone, bronze and silver from monumental to table size by Michael Cooper FRBS. Having identified the former railroad depot smack downtown as the best location, the council is trying to raise matching funds that will eventually total between $2 million and $4 million, depending on the resulting scope of their project. �W0�ش �|n(�v�L��ˢn+�Z�)R�ox�C��NE� }�y� �~���χ�P,���v����g�˓oô����l���מO��{?�W�B`3#/}�^�}����Y+��D�&u�� ���|>=���S�J��ZA�_I=9 �Cד8�Sk-��Pm�y�"?�����*����Eo�럜�}rV*��W-(�3� 1��������KQ���'"��l�~s�!&9�_O�^wU R3r*]����ކt$�+�"���L�k���p��Tu��hc�GNQ@��T��ưͅ��y��m�_�������s�������b^Azc��|�C~�j�z�xDod8�3�>�M�!4�7�#�_q������d#E��[���Ϊ. %PDF-1.3
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Cooper has created "horns" of sorts with aluminum and given the sculpture the appearance of kinesis by adding soft rounded metal forms like wheels whose shape repeat themselves as ball-bearing-type forms elsewhere on the piece. "It's obscure," Cooper chuckles.
Designed by renowned Mexican architect Ricardo Legorreta, Keller is currently only open to the public by appointment, though plans to have a regular tasting schedule are in the works for next year.
(Space is limited for the studio tour; please contact the Gallery to make an advance reservation. 2020 Metro Newspapers. The "Walter" in this instance is Dr. Walter Byck, owner of Santa Rosa's Paradise Ridge Winery and the main driving force behind last year's vastly successful countywide Sculpture Sonoma.
Michael Cooper: Formerly the Lodi Madman opens with an Artist Reception on Saturday June 2nd from 46pm. Michael Cooper completed his MFA in Sculpture at the University of California at Berkeley in 1969.
), See "Split Personality" Compared by the AMS consulting group hired to guide them to such other worthies as San Rafael's ArtWorks Downtown space and the Sebastopol Center for the Arts, the proposed Petaluma Art Center would provide exhibition opportunities to area artists as well as classroom time to those interested in learning to create. Currently, it is a newly painted but defunct depot near an unused railroad track across from Long's Drugs.
Along the way, Byck urged visitors to meet Mike Cooper, visit Mike Cooper, become familiar with Mike Cooper's work. Oct 21, 2020 8:53 am, By Daedalus Howell
On a recent sunny morning, his rural oversized studio allows light and grudging warmth in through the open doors.
Sculptor Michael Cooper has lived with his wife, Gayle, in their west Sonoma County home for some 26 years, but to hear him tell it, he's just now arrived in the North Bay. All rights reserved.
Sculptor Michael Cooper has lived with his wife, Gayle, in their west Sonoma County home for some 26 years, but to hear him tell it, he's just now arrived in the North Bay. Generally eschewing ready-mades, Cooper even creates such details as wooden gear linkage when making a carlike sculpture. Specializing in Pinot Noir and Chardonnay, the Keller family made their fortune in automobiles and live mostly in Mexico. By Daedalus Howell Reviews and previews of new plays, operas and symphony performances.
In organizing the Petaluma Arts Council fundraiser that will see Cooper's massive wooden car chassis on auction, stone sculptor Edwin Hamilton curated the work of seven other colleagues whom he particularly esteems. In progress on a massive table is an equally massive wooden sculpture consisting of thousands of pieces, each cunningly co-joined and made of different woods--many of them wooden strips ingeniously fitted together by Cooper to reveal clever interior designs when carved--that form the engine and chassis of an elaborate vehicle.
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Large and small scale sculpture in marble, stone and bronze, Michael Cooper’s pieces are a study in a wide variety of animal, bird and the human figure. His chairs, surreal and creature-like, meld organic form with geometric structure. "This is my introduction," he says modestly. MAIL: P.O.
He's had little contact with the traditional barbs of the art world and even less with the many artists who populate the North Bay. Oct 14, 2020 2:34 pm, Copyright ©
"I've basically given my stuff away over the years," he says sheepishly.
While Cooper has lived in Sonoma County for decades, his life has been focused on teaching and family.
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Animals, figures and birds. Born in 1943 in Richmond, California, Michael Cooper is a multimedia sculptor whose kinetic works incorporate engineering, mechanics, and traditional craftsmanship. Selling, of course, has its pleasures, particularly when it's for a good cause.
Across the room, another piece uses pneumatic pressure to raise an oversized gun that, when fully extended, protects an oil derrick on a platform. Whenever, he says, "they kick it out of the museum," he'll bring the contraption home.
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116) The stories behind the paintings and the life of an old artist trying to make a living for thirty odd years painting old barns,tractors,cows and various rural ruins. Photograph courtesy Michael Cooper Chassis: Nearing completion, Cooper's massive car is entirely made of cunningly design wood pieces.. By Gretchen Giles. Dec 7, 2017 - Painter,now semi retired, of the rural scene in highly detailed watercolour.
Cooper will also present a Gallery Talk on Thursday June 28th at 7pm, as well as host a tour of his art studio on Sunday July 8th at 2pm.
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