LAURIE COOPER
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
Cooper went to the University of Arts for her bachelors and received her master's degree in Fine Arts from the University of Pennsylvania. After that, she has been publishing prints with Collectible Art and Frames, publisher and distributor of popular African American art, located in Center City Philadelphia.
Cooper's artistic activities started early on as a little girl - she always drew. She first worked with charcoal, then discovered pastel, which she absolutely fell in love with. Pastel is her main medium: "when I get a image in my head I have to pursue it, get it out of my head quickly and put it down somewhere. With pastel you know immediately if it's going to work or not, and I like that immediate, gratifying result. It's more visually stimulating right from the beginning, and as an artist I need that visual stimuli from the very start," says Cooper.
She also likes working with pastels because it is "the cross between drawing and painting. I love those two worlds marrying, and being able to lean heavier toward one or the other depending on what mood I want to create."
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Cooper went to the University of Arts for her bachelors and received her master's degree in Fine Arts from the University of Pennsylvania. After that, she has been publishing prints with Collectible Art and Frames, publisher and distributor of popular African American art, located in Center City Philadelphia.
Cooper's artistic activities started early on as a little girl - she always drew. She first worked with charcoal, then discovered pastel, which she absolutely fell in love with. Pastel is her main medium: "when I get a image in my head I have to pursue it, get it out of my head quickly and put it down somewhere. With pastel you know immediately if it's going to work or not, and I like that immediate, gratifying result. It's more visually stimulating right from the beginning, and as an artist I need that visual stimuli from the very start," says Cooper.
She also likes working with pastels because it is "the cross between drawing and painting. I love those two worlds marrying, and being able to lean heavier toward one or the other depending on what mood I want to create."
