Nigel Cooke Paintings

British, b. 1973

Nigel Cooke is known for evocative works that merge figurative forms with abstract and elemental atmospherics. Since the late 1990s, Cooke has explored and stretched the boundaries of figurative painting, creating a highly diverse and distinctive body of work. More recently, his work has assessed this output, moving into a succinct language with which to investigate his wide range of interests. Informed by a range of fields from palae-ontology, neuroscience, classical mythology and zoology, the linear construction of Cooke’s latest paintings recalls brain circuitry, the human or animal body and landscape formations simultaneously. The artist is interested in folding familiar dualities such as the mind and body, or the human brain and the natural world, into a single fluid gesture. His organic abstractions are loaded with mammalian and geological fragments, creating an instability and movement in the image as well as an ambiguity between a vast array of natural associations. Using notational sketches and paintings made on location at various sites around the world, Cooke distills his impressions of specific places and the people in them into a personal vocabulary of forms that evolves and repeats through time, with autobiographical material often infusing and directing the process. Developing an emotive and highly focused use of colour alongside these forms, Cooke’s calligraphic images are delicately balanced, with structure and collapse held together in a state of tension. The paintings contrast staining techniques on raw linen with classical techniques of layering and spatial depth, indebted to both abstract expressionism and the figurative compositions of European Classicism. Much of the work’s rehearsals and revisions are visible in the final image, which play fine, schematic areas against passages of gestural impasto. Cooke’s background in masterfully executed figurative painting provides the sense of drawing and representational rendering that permeate the abstract marks. In their unfixed and writhing otherness, they engage with the self as a porous system, in flux between animal states and prehistory, between the inner life and the ecosystems of the world at large. Nigel Cooke studied at the Royal College of Art and Goldsmiths College, where he gained a PhD in Philosophy, writing about non-linear systems in the thought of George Bataille, Michel Serres and others. Making often atypical connections between disparate fields - cave paintings and surrealism, insect mimicry and information physics - his theoretical writings ultimately explored representation as a function of the natural world, and formed the basis of his conception of the value of painting and its possibilities. His paintings are held in several of the world’s major public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Tate Gallery, London; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Astrup Fearnely Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo; Milwaukee Art Museum.

Artist: Nigel Cooke

Nigel Cooke"Pyroclastic Fever, " Nigel Cooke, Contemporary Painting, Lightning Skyscape, 2002

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"Pyroclastic Fever, " Nigel Cooke, Contemporary Painting, Lightning Skyscape

By Nigel Cooke

Located in New York, NY

Nigel Cooke (Born 1973) Pyroclastic Fever, 2002 Oil on canvas 60 1/2 x 84 1/2 inches Signed, titled and dated "NIGEL COOKE 'PYROCLASTIC FEVER' 2002 Nigel C...

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Early 2000s Contemporary Nigel Cooke Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Urszula WilkUntitled - Contemporary Expressive Abstract XXL Oil Painting, Conceptual Art, 2004/2006

$28,614

H 78.75 in W 122.05 in D 1.19 in

Untitled - Contemporary Expressive Abstract XXL Oil Painting, Conceptual Art

By Urszula Wilk

Located in Hallein, AT

Urszula Wilk – artist statment: I have always been interested in the idea of infiniteness of a painting and its opposite – that is the physical finitenes...

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2010s Contemporary Nigel Cooke Paintings

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Cotton Canvas, Oil

Urszula WilkUntitled 6 - Contemporary Blue, White, Black Abstract Painting, Conceptual Art, 2017

$15,795

H 59.06 in W 78.75 in D 1.19 in

Untitled 6 - Contemporary Blue, White, Black Abstract Painting, Conceptual Art

By Urszula Wilk

Located in Hallein, AT

The paintings from this series are painted in such a way that they can be hung horizontally or vertically. Urszula Wilk – artist statment: I have alway...

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2010s Contemporary Nigel Cooke Paintings

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Cotton Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Urszula WilkUntitled 7 - Contemporary Blue, White, Black Abstract Painting, Conceptual Art, 2017

$15,795

H 78.75 in W 59.06 in D 1.19 in

Untitled 7 - Contemporary Blue, White, Black Abstract Painting, Conceptual Art

By Urszula Wilk

Located in Hallein, AT

The paintings from this series are painted in such a way that they can be hung horizontally or vertically. Urszula Wilk – artist statment: I have alway...

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2010s Contemporary Nigel Cooke Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Agata Czeremuszkin-ChrutSERIES: MEAT&GEOMETRY - Diptych: Meat and Geometry X - (Large Format Painting), 2014

$5,150

H 51.19 in W 102.37 in D 0.79 in

SERIES: MEAT&GEOMETRY - Diptych: Meat and Geometry X - (Large Format Painting)

By Agata Czeremuszkin-Chrut

Located in Hallein, AT

Agata Czeremuszkin-Chrut was born in 1983 in Czestochowa, Poland. She graduated from the Academy of the Fine Arts in Wroclaw (2008) with the Master degree in Painting. In 2007 she st...

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2010s Contemporary Nigel Cooke Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Julita MalinowskaPeace XV - Modern Figurative Oil Painting, Swimmer, Water Landscape, Sea View, 2022

$1,579

H 7.09 in W 9.45 in D 0.79 in

Peace XV - Modern Figurative Oil Painting, Swimmer, Water Landscape, Sea View

By Julita Malinowska

Located in Hallein, AT

Artodyssey "Julita Malinowska's paintings belong to those, which once seen - are never forgotten. The open spaces, sometimes cool and bright, at other times heavily saturated with co...

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2010s Contemporary Nigel Cooke Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Grzegorz RadeckiBlue-Black - Series Blobs - Colourful Expression, XXL Format Oil Painting, 2020

$19,458

H 94.49 in W 66.93 in D 1.19 in

Blue-Black - Series Blobs - Colourful Expression, XXL Format Oil Painting

By Grzegorz Radecki

Located in Hallein, AT

Artist about his work: BLOBS. THE CHARM OF DRIPPING PAINT Flowing peacefully in the slow current of a narrow trickle between the feeling of senselessness and some deeply hidden ho...

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2010s Contemporary Nigel Cooke Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Oil

Grzegorz RadeckiBig Blue - Series Blobs - Colourful Expression, XXXL Format Oil Painting, 2020

$19,458

H 94.49 in W 66.93 in D 1.19 in

Big Blue - Series Blobs - Colourful Expression, XXXL Format Oil Painting

By Grzegorz Radecki

Located in Hallein, AT

Artist about his work: BLOBS. THE CHARM OF DRIPPING PAINT Flowing peacefully in the slow current of a narrow trickle between the feeling of senselessness and some deeply hidden ho...

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2010s Contemporary Nigel Cooke Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Oil

Bogumił KsiążekPrière De Toucher - Modern Figurative Painting, Dada Art, Minimalism, Pastel, 2015

$3,090

H 55.12 in W 39.38 in D 0.79 in

Prière De Toucher - Modern Figurative Painting, Dada Art, Minimalism, Pastel

By Bogumił Książek

Located in Hallein, AT

This painting is from the Series Duchamp Bogumił Książek was educated at the Cracow’s Academy of Fine Arts (1995-2000). 2003 -2009 he lived and worke...

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2010s Contemporary Nigel Cooke Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Agnieszka KorejbaGood Morning - Large Format Conceptual Painting, Minimalistic, Contemplative, 2017

$11,047

H 70.87 in W 59.06 in D 1.19 in

Good Morning - Large Format Conceptual Painting, Minimalistic, Contemplative

By Agnieszka Korejba

Located in Hallein, AT

The painting is corresponding most closely to the first photo on the 1stdibs page A professional photographer took this photo in his studio with good lighting. The other photos were ...

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2010s Contemporary Nigel Cooke Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Oil

Grzegorz RadeckiBlue - Series Blobs - Colourful Expression, XXL Format Oil Painting, 2020

$19,458

H 94.49 in W 66.93 in D 1.19 in

Blue - Series Blobs - Colourful Expression, XXL Format Oil Painting

By Grzegorz Radecki

Located in Hallein, AT

Grzegorz Radecki is a Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk Poland Artist about his work: BLOBS. THE CHARM OF DRIPPING PAINT Flowing peacefully in the slow current of a...

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2010s Contemporary Nigel Cooke Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Oil

Grzegorz RadeckiPink - Series Blobs - Colourful Expression, XXL Format Oil Painting, 2020

$19,458

H 94.49 in W 66.93 in D 1.19 in

Pink - Series Blobs - Colourful Expression, XXL Format Oil Painting

By Grzegorz Radecki

Located in Hallein, AT

Artist about his work: BLOBS. THE CHARM OF DRIPPING PAINT Flowing peacefully in the slow current of a narrow trickle between the feeling of senselessness and some deeply hidden ho...

Category

2010s Contemporary Nigel Cooke Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Oil

Grzegorz RadeckiBlue 1 - Series Blobs - Colourful Expression, XXL Format Oil Painting, 2020

$19,458

H 94.49 in W 66.93 in D 1.19 in

Blue 1 - Series Blobs - Colourful Expression, XXL Format Oil Painting

By Grzegorz Radecki

Located in Hallein, AT

Grzegorz Radecki is a Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk Poland Artist about his work: BLOBS. THE CHARM OF DRIPPING PAINT Flowing peacefully in the slow current of a...

Category

2010s Contemporary Nigel Cooke Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Oil

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