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Jess Riva Cooper: Fruiting Bodies and Peonies – Sculpture

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Artist Statement:

In my sculptural Viral Series: Fruiting Bodies, I continue to explore death and regeneration taking place in deteriorating communities. Places and things, once bustling and animated, have succumbed to nature’s intentions. Without intervention, nature takes over and breathes new life into objects, and sculptures. Human busts, once pure and pristine, are hardly recognizable. They become tattooed with nature. Their heads grow leaves instead of hair. The faces scream out in pain – or perhaps pleasure – in the midst of transformation. Often used to represent life, nature instead becomes a parable for an alternative state – one where life and death intersect.

Care & Use: The protruding pieces are delicate and fragile.  Please handle with care by the base.  Sculpture is decorative only.

Material: Porcelain, paper clay, underglaze, glaze, and 24k gold lustre

Measurement (in.): L11.5 x W7 x H12

Weight (lb.): 5+

SKU: 435006

About The Artist

Jess Riva Cooper

Jess Riva Cooper is an artist and educator based in Toronto, integrating colour, drawing, clay and numerous other materials to create sculptures and installation-based artworks. In many of Cooper’s sculptures the world sprouts plant matter. Colour and form burst forth from quiet gardens and bring chaos to ordered spaces. Nature undergoes a reclamation process by creeping over structures, subverting past states and creating a preternatural transformation. Cooper received her BFA from NSCAD and her MFA in Ceramics from the Rhode Island School of Design. She widely exhibits her work and has participated in numerous artist residencies such as Medalta (Alberta), The Archie Bray Foundation (Montana), and The Kohler Arts/Industry Program (Wisconsin).

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