Bucolic Cob

Public Gallery is pleased to present ' Bucolic Cob', Emma cc Cook’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. Across eight heavily layered paintings of oil and acrylic on linen, Cook explores with systemic precision how accelerated capitalism and industrialization cast shadows across rural America. Her works serve as an archive, or perhaps a tombstone, blending speculative fiction with her Minnesota upbringing, to capture the no man’s land of the American mid-west — a hybridization of its mythical past and forgotten future – while advancing the contemporary genre of landscape painting.

Emma cc Cook (b. 1989, Minneapolis, USA) lives and works in Los Angeles, CA, USA. Recent solo and two person exhibitions include Caterpillar, Outer space, Concord (2024); Acre Eaters, Anonymous Gallery, New York; Manners, Hayseed, 1226, Dallas (2024); Dibbler stick, Adams & Ollman, Portland (2023); Pilgrim, Public Gallery, London (2022); Flags, Moskowitz Bayse, Los Angeles (2022); Peeping Tom,...

Emma cc Cook (b. 1989, Minneapolis, USA) lives and works in Los Angeles, CA, USA. Recent solo and two person exhibitions include Caterpillar, Outer space, Concord (2024); Acre Eaters, Anonymous Gallery, New York; Manners, Hayseed, 1226, Dallas (2024); Dibbler stick, Adams & Ollman, Portland (2023); Pilgrim, Public Gallery, London (2022); Flags, Moskowitz Bayse, Los Angeles (2022); Peeping Tom, Et Al, San Francisco (2022); and Milkman Pigeon, Half Gallery, New York (2021).