From the studio: Ethan Cook

Studio Visit

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Using stock colours of pre-dyed cotton, Cook weaves the cotton into canvas on a four-harness floor loom. The woven canvas is then sewn together using various rule-based systems that determine mark making and composition, generally creating colour field-like abstractions. Various aspects of the weaving process along with sewing and stretching become gestures in themselves, the artist's hand present in an otherwise standardised industrial process. Using only canvas as the entirety for the composition, Cook hopes to engage with narratives of abstraction, scale, logic, colour, beauty, and the post-modern problem of what can still be done with a blank canvas.
From the studio: Ethan Cook
ETCO:P 8026, Ethan Cook,The Pines of Rome, 2022

The Pines of Rome

2022
hand woven cotton and linen, framed
152.40 × 172.72 cm (60 × 68 inches)
ETCO:P 8027, Ethan Cook,Running Red, 2022

Running Red

2022
hand woven cotton and linen, framed
127 × 203 cm (50 × 80 inches)
ETCO:P 8030, Ethan Cook,A Certain Ratio, 2022

A Certain Ratio

2022
hand woven cotton and linen, framed
127.00 × 203.20 cm (50 × 80 inches)
ETCO:P 8031, Ethan Cook,Perhaps Perhaps, 2022

Perhaps Perhaps

2022
hand woven cotton and linen, framed
152.4 × 172.72 cm (60 × 68 inches)