Los Angeles-based artist Laura Cooper was on campus September 18-20 to install her work for Opuntia, part of the Single Species Translations exhibit in the Braucher Gallery of the Perlman Teaching Museum. Cooper’s Opuntia series consists of large, multi-media pieces that play with the boundary separating representational art from the abstract. Inspired by the complex structure of cactus species Opuntia ficus-indica, the artist creates an entrancing visual experience through startling, representational detail.
Cooper’s Opuntia and Jessica Rath’s take me to the apple breeder make up Single Species Translations, up now until November 20, in conjunction with Directed: The Intersection Between Book, Film, and Visual Narrative in the Kaemmer Family Gallery, now open through November 10.