Jacob Cooley

Tide

SOLD Oil on canvas 14 x 18

Eventide

Oil on canvas 24 x 30

First Dawn Light

SOLD Oil on Canvas 18 x 36

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ARTIST STATEMENT

Jacob Cooley was born in 1968. He received an MFA in painting from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1993 and graduated in 1990 with a BFA from the University of Georgia, Athens. He studied at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio from 1986 to 1988.

His paintings are informed by harmonious and hallowed places, landscapes about contemplation and the spirit, but also about the transient, ephemeral characteristics of light and darkness and ultimately of life. Cooley's work attempts to capture and hold the instant when the orange of the sun is about to completely scatter into the diffused light of dusk or the thunderclouds move to entirely obscure the horizon.

Cooley has received numerous awards and reviews of his work are included in major publications. His paintings are collected nationally by museums, corporations and private collectors.

"I am reveling in what to me is basic, authentic, and profoundly essential to issues of my consciousness - the infallible truths and deep rooted perpetuity of landscape."