Jess Riva Cooper is a contemporary artist based in Toronto, who brings together color, drawing, and clay to create sculptures and installations. She received a MFA in Ceramic Sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design and exhibits her pieces in various galleries in both North America and Europe. She currently teaches at Sheridan College in the Bachelor of Craft and Design Program in Oakville. She studies myths of the Dybbuk in Yiddish folklore and likes to reinterpret these stories through the female lens as well as how the environment takes over abandoned cities, so she depicts how both of these situations have an entity consume its host. Her sculptures have sprout plants and colors coming out of the form and creeping over the structures. I find her work to be really interesting, especially in the way that she combines painting and sculpture to create a beautiful form with haunting elements. I personally and very interested in this art, as I and working with a similar idea of being consumed by something inside one's self and use similar motifs of nature consuming one.
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Avarice StankiewiczHi, I'm Avarice, though I mostly go by Kace, I'm an art 5 student at Maggie Walker Governor's school and page is just a space for some reflection, research and progress photos for my work. Archives
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