Duane Reed Gallery: Friday, 16 September 2011

Duane Reed Gallery presents the latest work of acclaimed artist Lia Cook. Exhibition opens
Friday, September 9th with a reception on Friday, September 16th 5 – 8pm. The exhibition will run through October 15th. Gallery hours: Tuesday through Saturday 10-5pm.

Lia Cook creates weavings that explore the complex relationship between visual image, sensory stimulation, and emotional identification. Her artistic investigations have followed diverse approaches that are expressed in her series, including Big Baby, Un/Mask, Traces, Binary Traces and Face Maze, all created from 2000 to the present. Cook weds the early 19th century Jacquard weaving technique with contemporary digital technology. Beginning with slides, photographs or video stills, she develops her imagery, couples it with digital technology, and creates specifically designed weaves that allow her to build the image thread by thread.
The digital pixel becomes a thread that when interlaced with another becomes both cloth and image at the same time. This woven image brings with it many of the sensual experiences that we associate with cloth.