The dress up masquerade of Cindy Sherman looms large in our contemporary minds. Melissa Cooke shares a similar process with this legendary photographer. Cooke wears props and costumes like Sherman, and she snaps the shutter herself. But, Cooke takes those photographs and turns them into large-scale drawings of her face and get-ups.Her newest drawings relish in the undoing of the guise: they capture the moment when the night is over and the make-up smudges on the cheeks or when the glorious fake tattoo is removed from the bosom. What remains is a conflicted portrait of the many roles women play in this post-feminist world. Like Larry Clark and even Sherman to some extent, Cooke asks us to study individuals living on the fringes of society, like the biker chicks and the plastic surgery divas.
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Can’t wait to see the exhibit!
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