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AJ COOKE

Aj Cooke: Fragmented Place
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Dear Memory,
September 11 - October 3, 2020

In Conversation with Aj Cooke: Virtual Artist Talk

Artist Statement
Place is a location, a feeling, and an identity. How we view the world around us, and react to it, is derived by our personal existence - how we think and what we’ve experienced both physically and emotionally. Even though our own realities define our unique spheres, we function as a structured population regardless of all of this difference. I am interested in how we organize our society with constructs that have a shared network of humanity while still remaining bound to our individual certainties.

By altering photographs from various points in my life, I am re-documenting memories and reshaping them based on my current place. These subjective modifications are founded by gained experience as well as critiquing the formal composition from a design perspective - a visual language of color, shape and line. Though I consider this interpretation of information to be very particular as my own perception is offered to others, shared meaning can be achieved through the use of conventions - a code that can be recognized and interpreted by multiple communities.


Artist Biography 
Focusing on Cognitive biology and design language, Aj Cooke’s work explores human epistemology and the contradiction of individual perception within a functioning organized construct by creating visual systems of personal and communal meaning. Currently living in the metro-Detroit area, Cooke earned her MFA in painting from Kendall College of Art & Design of Ferris State University, in Grand Rapids, MI.
Buckham Gallery is funded by the following organizations:
Generous support is provided by the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation. 

Our activities are sponsored in part by an award from the MICHIGAN COUNCIL FOR ARTS AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS  and the NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS. 
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This program is sponsored by the Greater Flint Arts Council Share Art Genesee Grant Program made possible by the Genesee County Arts Education and Cultural Millage funds. Your tax dollars are at work!
  • Home
  • Exhibitions
    • Late Winter Exhibitions >
      • Chad Erpelding: Gains and Losses
      • Deepanjan Mukhopadhyay: Appropriated Figure-Grounds
      • Jordan Vinyard: Summary of A Few Volts
    • Exhibition Opportunities >
      • 2022-2023 Season Call For Entry
      • PRESENTATION GUIDELINES
    • 2020-2022 Exhibition Schedule
    • Selected Past Exhibitions >
      • JANUARY 2021 >
        • Karen Milito
        • Nancy Pennell
        • Linda Lou Woodruff
      • December 2020: United By One >
        • United By One: Allen
        • United By One: LaBret Einstein
        • United By One: Haylett
        • United By One: Hershman
      • November 2020: BAC Exhibitions >
        • A Climate Of Change: Viewing Room
        • Shadows: 2020 Buckham Print Exchange
      • October 2020: Serious Play >
        • Serious Play: Andy Hill
        • Serious Play: Timothy Kranz
        • Serious Play: Sifus J Thompson
      • September 2020: Dear Memory, >
        • Aj Cooke: Fragmented Place
        • Michele Leclaire
        • Lauren Scavo-Fulk
      • August 2020: Ineffable Benedictions >
        • Matthew Osmon: Private Insurrection
        • 0591: People First
        • Rachel Singel: Metamorphosis
      • July 2020: Verisimilitude
      • Feb. 2020: Eros and Thanatos >
        • Eros & Thanatos: Award Winners
      • Jan. 2020
      • November 2019 Exhibitions
      • Oct.2019 FEVER VESSELS >
        • Press Release: Fever Vessels
      • FIELD WORK: Sept. 2019
      • BIG CLAY - August 2019
      • Crush: July 2019
      • April 2019: Allegories to Anatomies
  • Events
    • Calendar
    • In Conversation
    • First Friday Open Mic
    • Second Friday Art Walk
    • Cider & Slides
    • Past Artist Talks >
      • Jan. 10, 2020: Artist Talks with Ardea Thurston-Shaine and Dominique Chastenet de Gary
      • Tommy Mintz, Nov. 2019
      • 2019 Smallidge Lecture
      • June 2019: Panel Discussion with John Dempsey, Guy Adamec, and my Gibas
      • May 2019: Terre Voce
      • April 13, 2019 ​Artist Talk and Deviant Life Drawing Session with Jeanine LeclaireNew Page
      • May 4, 2019- Artist Talk with Stephen Halko and Nick Reszetar
  • On Screen - Flint
    • On Screen Artists
    • FAQ
  • About Buckham
    • Mission Statement
    • Board and Staff
    • Buckham Artist Collective
    • Founders Feature >
      • FOUNDERS FEATURE: THOMAS NUZUM
      • Founders Feature: Sam Morello
      • Founders Feature: Ken Kinyon
      • Founders Feature: John Dempsey
      • FOUNDERS FEATURE: GUY ADAMEC
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      • 2020-21 Renewal Packet
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