Ethan Cook

Using stock colors 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 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 for 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.

Ethan Cook (b. 1983, Texas, USA) lives and works in New York. Recent solo exhibitions were held at Andersen's, Copenhagen (2019), Philipp Zollinger, Zurich (2019), T293, Rome (2019), Gana Art, Seoul (2018), Patrick De Brock Gallery, Knokke (2018) and Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles (2018).

Ethan Cook, *Untitled*, 2018, hand woven cotton canvas, 132.1 x 119.4 cm

My work furthers the trajectory of flatness started by Manet.
Ethan Cook

Biography

Solo Exhibitions

2019
Bands, T293, Rome, Italy
Solo Presentation, Art Brussels, with Patrick De Brock Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Sets, Galerie Philipp Zollinger, Zurich, Switzerland
Fields, Andersen’s, Copenhagen, Denmark
2018
The Neutral, Patrick De Brock Gallery, Knokke, Belgium
Propositions, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Ethan Cook, Gana Art, Seoul, South Korea
Mysticism and Logic, Noire Chapel, Turin, Italy
2017
Decoy, Bill Brady, Miami, FL, USA
Less Than Zero, Sunday-S Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2016
Shakespeare, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2015
De Beauvoir Crescent, T293, Rome, Italy
2014
Problem in Chair Not in Computer, American Contemporary, New York, NY, USA
Ethan Cook, Bill Brady, Kansas City, MO, USA
2013
Felman, Galerie Jeanroch Dard, Paris, France
lobstee, Rod Barton, London, UK

Selected Group Exhibitions

2019
Frieze LA, with Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Frieze NY, with Anat Ebgi, New York, NY, USA
Art Dubai, with Andersen’s Contemporary, Dubai, UAE
TEFAF NY, with Gana Art, New York, NY, USA
2018
Winter Show, Koki Arts, Tokyo, Japan
Moondog, East Hampton Shed, East Hampton, NY, USA
Art Brussels, with Patrick De Brock Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Art Los Angeles Contemporary, with Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2017
Sagra ARTDATE, The Blank Contemporary, Bergamo, Italy
Art Toronto, with Anat Ebgi, Toronto, Canada
Dallas Art Fair, with Anat Ebgi, Dallas, TX, USA
2016
Miranda, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2015
Arcitectura e Archelogio, Fondazione 107, Torino, Italy
The Politics of Surface, Berthold Pott, Cologne, Germany
2014
Ethan Cook, Sam Falls, Emanuel Rohss & Tris Vonna-Michell, T293 in-residence at Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK
The Go-Between, National Museum of Capodimonte, Naples, Italy
173 E 94th St / Chausee de Waterloo 550, Paul Kasmin at Middlemarch, Brussels, Belgium
Infinitude, Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Picture/Painting/Object, Gallery Albert Baronian, Brussels, Belgium
Difference and Repetition, Luce Gallery, Turin, Italy
Stitched Up, S2, London, UK
The Go-Between, Sprovieri, London, UK
2013
Space Whole Karaoke, Middlemarch, Brussels, Belgium
Equilibrium, Ritter/Zamet, London, UK
Xtraction, The Hole, New York, NY, USA
This is the story of America, Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy
Imago Mundi, Curated by Diego Cortez, Venice, Italy
Pattern Recognition, Ana Cristea Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Shake Shack Guggenheim, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2012
Dreamtigers, Ed. Varie Gallery, New York, NY, USA
MADE WITH MUSTARD, East Hampton Shed, East Hampton, NY, USA
Floor Routine, Bodega, Philadelphia, PA, USA
MATTERDADDY, Angstrom Gallery, Dallas, TX, USA
Black Foliage, Nudashank, Baltimore, MD, USA
Slowed & Throwed, Chinatown Arcade, New York, NY, USA
Tlk Drty, Amstel 41 Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The Big Stink Moves Like a Moth Towards the Light, Hungryman Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
Rooms Within Rooms, Apache Projects, Anafi Island, Greece
Brucennial 2012, BHQF, New York, NY, USA
Alchemy, Harvester Gallery, Hudson, NY, USA
FFA, Space Gallery, Portland, OR, USA
2011
What Brings The Dust Together, New Gallery London, London, UK
Nom de Guerre, Youth Group Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Refractions, Place Gallery, New York, NY, USA
All the Tired Horses in the Sun, How am I Supposed to Get Any Riding Done?, EOC Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Issue Project Room (Benefit), Industria Superstudio, New York, NY, USA
NurtureArt (Benefit), Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY, USA
2010
Black, White and Read All Over, Envoy Gallery, New York, NY, USA
It Is What It Is, Envoy Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2009
Works, Do Right Gallery, Marfa, TX, USA