Ethan Cook

Selected Works

ETCO 8306, Ethan Cook,Steal My Sunshine, 2022 — Ethan Cook

Steal My Sunshine
2022
hand woven cotton, framed
76 × 101 cm (30 × 40 inches)

ETCO 8308, Ethan Cook,Ashbox, 2022 — Ethan Cook

Ashbox
2022
hand woven cotton, framed
193.04 × 241.30 cm (76 × 95 inches)

ETCO 8309, Ethan Cook,It's Gonna Rain, 2022 — Ethan Cook

It’s Gonna Rain
2022
hand woven cotton and linen, framed
152.40 × 177.80 cm (60 × 70 inches)

ETCO 8310, Ethan Cook,Whip, 2022 — Ethan Cook

Whip
2022
hand woven cotton and linen, framed
193 × 241 cm (76 × 95 inches)

ETCO 8311, Ethan Cook,Rooster, 2022 — Ethan Cook

Rooster
2022
hand woven cotton and linen, framed
177 × 127 cm (70 × 50 inches)

ETCO:P 8032, Ethan Cook,A Tribute to Someone, 2022 — Ethan Cook

A Tribute to Someone
2022
hand woven cotton and linen, framed
177.80 × 193.04 cm (70 × 76 inches)

ETCO:P 8026, Ethan Cook,The Pines of Rome, 2022 — Ethan Cook

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 — Ethan Cook

Running Red
2022
hand woven cotton and linen, framed
127 × 203 cm (50 × 80 inches)

ETCO:P 8029, Ethan Cook,Fixing a Hole, 2022 — Ethan Cook

Fixing a Hole
2022
hand woven cotton and linen, framed
152 × 203 cm (60 × 80 inches)

ETCO:P 8028, Ethan Cook,Broadway Boogie Woogie, 2022 — Ethan Cook

Broadway Boogie Woogie
2022
hand woven cotton and linen, framed
152.40 × 203.20 cm (60 × 80 inches)

ETCO:P 8030, Ethan Cook,A Certain Ratio, 2022 — Ethan Cook

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 — Ethan Cook

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

ETCO:P 8035, Ethan Cook,Harmony in Purple, Yellow and Green II, 2022 — Ethan Cook

Harmony in Purple, Yellow and Green II
2022
hand woven cotton and linen, framed
63.50 × 177.80 cm (25 × 70 inches)

ETCO:P 8036, Ethan Cook,Harmony in Purple, Yellow and Green III, 2022 — Ethan Cook

Harmony in Purple, Yellow and Green III
2022
hand woven cotton and linen, framed
63.50 × 177.80 cm (25 × 70 inches)

ETCO:P 7460, Ethan Cook,Purple, orange, white, black, 2020 — Ethan Cook

Purple, orange, white, black
2020
handmade pigmented paper, frame
79 × 64 cm (31 ⅛ × 25 ¼ inches)

ETCO:P 7459, Ethan Cook,Two pinks, red, alabaster, 2020 — Ethan Cook

Two pinks, red, alabaster
2020
handmade pigmented paper, frame
79 × 64 cm (31 ⅛ × 25 ¼ inches)

ETCO:P 7462, Ethan Cook,Alabaster, red, two blues, 2020 — Ethan Cook

Alabaster, red, two blues
2020
handmade pigmented paper, frame
79 × 64 cm (31 ⅛ × 25 ¼ inches)

Biography

Born in 1983, in Texas, Ethan Cook lives and works in New York City. Ethan Cook engages with material existentialism in his practice of woven canvas and more recently, of handmade paper. Each medium for Cook constructs a fresh take on the legacy of abstraction. Ethan Cook’s “paintings” are made up of swathes of woven color that exist to give color structure. Using stock colors of pre-dyed cotton, the artist weaves the cotton into the 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 color 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 standardized industrial process. Using only canvas as the entirety of the composition, Cook hopes to engage with narratives of abstraction, scale, logic, color, beauty, and the post-modern problem of what can still be done with a blank canvas. In turn, his handmade paper constructs a color field with pigment, earth material, and water. For Cook, the performance of making is at once meditative and intensely rhythmic. The grandness of the loom, with its thousands of moving processes and parts, generates a symphony of action that is both quick and unpredictable, developing a variety of idiosyncrasies like a pulled thread or skipped knot, producing a variety of textures that reveal that the works are indeed, handmade. In 2019, Cook began incorporating aluminum panels into his woven works, disrupting his strict adherence to textile as the sole medium in his practice. The aluminum provides a break in the texture allowing the eye to clearly see the difference between the painted panel and the hand woven cotton. These recent incorporations to his practice, alongside paper making and producing the actual canvas by weaving, are ways for the artist to subvert abstract painting and to do something radical within the confines of art making.

Gallery Exhibitions

Other Venues

Selected Press

01.08.2022

INTERIOR DESIGN

Ethan Cook Applies His Minimalist, Abstract Style to Rugs for Hay

24.05.2022

DESIGN MILK

Where I Work: Artist Ethan Cook

02.05.2022

INSIDEART

Ethan Cook e Caroline Mesquita insieme per la nuova doppia esposizione di T293 a Roma

03.03.2014

INTERVIEW MAGAZINE

Ethan Cook Spins a Yarn

A visual diary of artist Ethan Cook's studio in Brooklin, NY.

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Solo exhibitions

2022

‘Family Tree, Loyal’, Stockholm

‘The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over the Lazy Dog’, Mier Gallery, Los Angeles
‘Chimera’, T293, Rome

2021

‘The Made Body’, Gana Art, Seoul
‘Landscapes’, Nino Mier Gallery, Marfa, Texas
‘Figures’, Patrick de Brock Gallery, Knokke, Belgium
‘Papers’, Patrick de Brock Gallery, Knokke, Belgium
‘Associated Bodies’, Half Gallery, New York
‘A Rainbow in Curved Air’, Loyal Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden

2020

‘Papers’, T293, Rome
‘Arenas’, Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles

2019

‘Fields’, Andersen’s Contemporary, Copenhagen
‘Sets’, Galerie Philipp Zollinger, Zurich
‘The Bands’, T293, Rome

2018

‘Mysticism and Logic’, Noire chapel, San Sebastiano, Turin
‘Ethan Cook’, Gana Art Hannam, Seoul
‘The Neutral’, Patrick de Brock Gallery, Knokke, Belgium
‘Propositions’, Anat Ebgi Gallery, Los Angeles

2017

‘Less Than Zero’, Sunday-S Gallery, Copenhagen
‘Decoy’, Bill Brady, Miami

2016

‘Shakespeare’, Anat Ebgi Gallery, Los Angeles

2015

‘De Beauvoir Crescent’, T293, Rome

2014

‘Problem In Chair Not In Computer’, American Contemporary, New York
‘Ethan Cook’, Bill Brady KC, Kansas City

2013

‘Felman’, Galerie Jeanroch Dard, Paris
‘lobstee’, Rod Barton, London

Group exhibitions

2022

‘Ceramics Club’, White Columns, New York
‘Group presentation with Mier Gallery’, NADA, Miami
‘Monuments’, Marfa International, Marfa

2021

‘Shapes’, Alexander Berggruen, New York

2020

‘Echo Chords’, Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles
‘Under Glass’, Half Gallery, New York
‘Paper (and one on wood)’, Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles
‘Summer group show’, Patrick De Brock, Knokke, Belgium

2018

‘Ethan Cook’, Koki Arts, Tokyo, Japan
‘Moondog’, East Hampton Shed, East Hampton NY

2017

‘Sagra ARTDATE’, The Blank Contemporary, Bergamo, Italy

2016

‘Miranda’, Anat Ebgi Gallery, Los Angeles

2015

‘Architettura e Archeologia’, Fondazione 107, Turin
‘The Politics of Surface’, Berthold Pott, Cologne, Germany

2014

‘The Go-Between’, National Museum of Capodimonte, Naples
‘173 E 94th St / Chausee de Waterloo 550’, Paul Kasmin at Middlemarch, Brussels
‘Infinitude’, Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles
‘Picture/Painting/Object’, Gallery Albert Baronian, Brussels
‘Difference and Repetition’, Luce Gallery, Turin
‘Stitched Up’, S2, London
‘The Go-Between’, Sprovieri, London

2013

‘Space Whole Karaoke’, Middlemarch, Brussels
‘Equilibrium’, Ritter/Zamet, London
‘Xtraction’, The Hole, New York
‘This is the story of America’, Brand New Gallery, Milan
‘Imago Mundi’, Venice
‘Pattern Recognition’, Ana Cristea Gallery, New York
‘Shake Shack Guggenheim’, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen

2012

‘Dreamtigers’, Ed. Varie Gallery, New York
‘MADE WITH MUSTARD’, East Hampton Shed, East Hampton
‘Floor Routine’, Bodega, Philadelphia (three-person)
‘MATTERDADDY’, Angstrom Gallery, Dallas
‘Black Foliage’, Nudashank, Baltimore, US
‘Slowed & Throwed’, Chinatown Arcade, New York
‘Tlk Drty’, Amstel 41 Gallery, Amsterdam
‘The Big Stink Moves Like a Moth Towards the Light’, Hungryman Gallery, Chicago
‘Rooms Within Rooms’, Apache Projects, Anafi Island, Greece
‘Brucennial 2012’, BHQF, New York
‘Alchemy’, Harvester Gallery, Hudson
‘FFA’, Space Gallery, Portland, US

2011

‘What Brings The Dust Together’, NewGallery London, London
‘Nom de Guerre’, Youth Group Gallery, New York
‘Refractions’, Place Gallery, New York
‘All the Tired Horses in the Sun’, How am I Supposed to Get Any Riding Done?, EOC
Gallery, New York
‘Issue Project Room (Benefit)’, Industria Superstudio, New York
‘NurtureArt (Benefit)’, Chelsea Art Museum, New York

2010

‘Black, White and Read All Over’, Envoy Gallery, New York
‘It Is What It Is’, Envoy Gallery, New York

2009

‘Works’, Do Right Gallery, Marfa

Ethan Cook

Selected Works

Untitled

Steal My Sunshine

Ashbox

It’s Gonna Rain

Whip

Rooster

A Tribute to Someone

The Pines of Rome

Running Red

Fixing a Hole

Broadway Boogie Woogie

A Certain Ratio

Perhaps Perhaps

Harmony in Purple, Yellow and Green II

Harmony in Purple, Yellow and Green III

Purple, orange, white, black

Two pinks, red, alabaster

Alabaster, red, two blues

Biography

Gallery Exhibitions

Other Venues

Selected Press

From the studio: Ethan Cook

Studio Visit

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