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Jess Riva Cooper is an artist and educator based in Toronto, integrating colour, drawing, and clay to create sculptures and installation-based artworks. She studies the foundation myths of the Dybbuk in Yiddish folklore and reinterprets these traditional stories through a female lens.
Jess Riva Cooper / Viral Series Design Crush
Toronto-based artist Jess Riva Cooper created this haunting collection of ceramic busts called her Viral Series as part of an artist residency last fall at The Kohler Factory in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. The pieces seem to lie at the peculiar intersection of life and death, as it should be given her inspiration behind the sculptures..
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Ceramic, glaze, decal, over-glaze, lustre 11" x 8.3" x 18" 2015. Jess Riva Cooper
Viral Ceramic Sculptures by Jess Riva Cooper Daily design inspiration for creatives
Jess Riva Cooper is an artist and educator based in Toronto, integrating colour, drawing, and clay to create sculptures and installation-based artworks. She received her MFA in Ceramic Sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design.
Bio — Jess Riva Cooper
Jess Riva Cooper (previously) produces smooth ceramic busts, the mouths agape rather than closed in smile or silent contemplation. Tangled vines and rosebuds sprout from their mouths, and in some cases leaves from plants pop from the busts' noses, engulfing the faces in their entirety. In each bust the plants are used as both ornamentation and methods of destruction, forming crowns on the.
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Photo: Kohler Co. Jess Riva Cooper integrates color, drawing and clay. Mining her experience as a Canadian Jew of eastern European descent, she studies the foundation myths of The Golem, and Dybbuk spirits in Jewish folklore and reinterprets these traditional stories through a female lens.
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Toronto-based artist Jess Riva Cooper created this haunting collection of ceramic busts called her Viral Series as part of an artist residency last fall at The Kohler Factory in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. The pieces seem to lie at the peculiar intersection of life and death, as it should be given her inspiration behind the sculptures. Cooper shares about the Viral Series via email: In my art.
Viral Ceramic Sculptures by Jess Riva Cooper Daily design inspiration for creatives
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.
Jess Riva Cooper’s New Sculptures Explore Death and Renewal
As co-founders of Ten.A.City (Toronto), Jess Riva Cooper, Laura Hudspith and Amanda Small seek to extend their artistic interests by causing positive social change through carefully matched and facilitated mentorship for artists. Laura Hudspith is a Toronto-based sculptor and installation artist whose work features molded and slip cast objects.
Jess Riva Cooper insidious ceramic plants the PhotoPhore
Jess Riva Cooper explores themes of reclamation and transformation in her ceramic sculptures where nature overwhelms and takes over her subjects. Particularly inspired by invasive plant species, the Toronto based artist, featured here on our blog, uses clay to express her fascination with chaos erupting into order.
Jess Riva Cooper insidious ceramic plants the PhotoPhore
In her Viral Series, Toronto artist Jess Riva Cooper explores ideas of environmental impact and change as flora overtakes the human face. It has always amazed and intrigued me the way we build things up, yet nature always finds a way to inhabit and continue on its own journey. From the spider taking up residence in the smallest corner of the.
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Jess Riva Cooper. Work; About. Bio; Artist Statement; Teaching Philosophy; Contact; cv-resume
Jess Riva Cooper update INAG I Need A Guide
As the third annual Hadassah-Brandeis Institute artist-in-residence, Jessica Riva Cooper created an original, site-specific drawing and sculpture installation that re-interpreted the folkloric stories of the Golem and the Dybbuk through a feminist lens.
Jess Riva Cooper / Viral Series Design Crush
Jess Riva Cooper is an artist and educator based in Toronto, integrating colour, drawing, and clay to create sculptures and installation-based artworks. She received her MFA in Ceramic Sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design. Cooper exhibits her work throughout Europe and North America and has participated in numerous artist.
Jess Riva Cooper / Viral Series Design Crush
Jess Riva Cooper jessrivacooper.com Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI Sheridan School of Craft and Design, Oakville, ON Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, NS Cynthia Corbett Gallery, London, UK Gardiner Ceramic Museum, Toronto, ON Duane Reed Gallery, St. Louis, MO Fentster Gallery, Toronto, ON
Viral Ceramic Sculptures by Jess Riva Cooper Daily design inspiration for creatives
Ceramic, glaze, pvc tubing, latex paint, wood, found objects. 40' x 10' x 15' 2015. Serotiny explores the themes of death and regeneration through the creation of a large-scale, site-specific installation at The Clay and Glass Gallery in Waterloo Ontario.
