M E L A N E E C O O P E R G A L L E R Y

September 5 - October 31
Show Opening Reception: Friday, September 5, 5-8 pm

Architectural Fiction Kathleen Waterloo

Considered one of our city's prolific encaustic artists, Kathleen Waterloo has been represented and exhibited at the Melanee Cooper Gallery for almost ten years. Waterloo's encaustic paintings are inspired by an architectural vernacular. Her abstract vocabulary is observations of architecture through plans, elevations, scale, lines and grids. Her perfected technique of the encaustic medium is evident in her abstracted geometric forms embedded in layers of thickly layered wax, partially transparent and aggressively expressed with drips, irregularities and vibrant colors. Characteristics of Waterloo's work are evident in her progression with an artistic voice that changes and resonates with each new body of work. This is Waterloo's sixth solo exhibition with the gallery.

Please also join us for an artist's talk with Kathleen Waterloo on October 24 in collaboration with Chicago Cultural Center's Chicago Artists Month

Gallery II
Postcards from a Sunken City Miranda Lake

Miranda Lake's work combines one of the oldest, most archival forms of painting with the digital darkroom creating a bridge and exploring the tension between past and present, both personal and collective. Suspended figures in a collaged landscape of old ledgers, maps, and vintage kimono scraps bathed in beeswax create a sense of displacement and timelessness and invite the viewer into a world where not everything is as it first seems.

Themes of rebirth and potential have been the primary focus of Lake's work since Hurricane Katrina with a focus on the absurd contradictions of what it means to live in postdiluvian New Orleans while grounding these impressions in a very personal iconography. Inspired by her own collection of found objects, curiosities, and imagery, Lake has opened the door into a world of domestic surrealism where fantastical dreams and stark realities coexist as one.

MELANEE COOPER GALLERY
740 N. Franklin, Chicago, IL. 60610 PH: 312-202-9305
Gallery hours: Tuesday - Thursday 10 - 5, Friday 10 - 6, Saturday 11 - 5