From Beginning to End: Cooper Holoweski

From Beginning to End

October 30-December 18

Reception: October 29 from 6pm-8pm

Our lives are inextricably linked. The artists in this exhibition explore birth, life, and death in different ways, all attempting to understand their own relationship with the world.

Our lives have a beginning and end whether we believe it is predetermined or by chance, we all experience our world in different ways. Some believe that personal stories and memories are what define our lives. Some fixate on illness and our progression towards death while others take comfort in the fact that they are part of a cycle that is ongoing. Even though we look at life differently we will experience birth and new beginnings as well as mourn the loss of someone close.

This exhibition asks the viewer to reflect on and question their own personal feelings about life and death, and leave with a deeper understanding of their own mortality.

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Cooper Holoweski

Cooper Holoweski, Printmaking MFA 2009

Alpha and Omega

Lazarus Machine

Growing up in Detroit, Michigan Cooper Holoweski has come to see the automobile engine as more than a utility for getting us from point A to point B. This complex machine of gears is an organism with a metabolism and independent destiny. The automobile engine represents a human, it represents a global economic system, it represents an inescapable closed circuit into which we have placed our faith.

From Beginning to End