PICNIC AT SUNSET | new works by Ashley Norwood Cooper

ZINC contemporary is pleased to announce a major upcoming exhibition with New York-based artist Ashley Norwood Cooper, PICNIC AT SUNSET. Her large-scale figurative oil paintings illuminate the tender-hearted vaudeville of domesticity, motherhood, and humanity, through the heroic lens of the ordinary. Within this new series, Norwood Cooper attempts to disentangle the uncertainty embedded in our socially isolated reality, correlating this time in history with the tenuous space that occurs at the edge of the wood, with imagined figures like crones and witches, both healing and dangerous. The vultures that circle over the rural New York village where she lives, served as the impetus for her new work, as she found herself isolated in their shadows. “Am I just another crazy old bird, with a pink head and beady eyes, trying to survive in a world I don’t understand? Here at sunset, at the edge of the woods, the shadows grow long, borders blur, paint drips, and I’m not sure anymore.” - Ashley Norwood Cooper