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    Kevin Cooley

    Installation of Fallen Water at Catharine Clark Gallery, 2015

    15 channel video

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    Fallen Water explores questions about why humans are drawn to waterfalls and flowing water as a source for renewal.  Waterfalls imbue subconscious associations with pristine and healthy drinking water, but what happens when when the fountain can no longer renew itself? Is the water is no longer pure?  Cooley’s choice of subject matter strikes a deep chord with current social consciousness and anxieties about contemporary water usage and the drought crisis faced by the American West.  Cooley references Blake’s famous quote from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell as context for the diametric opposites of the current water conundrum:  our deep sense of entitlement to and dire dependence on this precious commodity, coupled with a pervasive obliviousness concerning the sources which supply it.  As a way to connect with his personal water use, Cooley hiked into the mountains to see firsthand the snowpack (or lack thereof), streams, and aquifers which feed the water sources supplying his Los Angeles home.  This installation is an amalgamation of videos made over numerous trips to remote locations in The San Gabriel Mountains, The Sierra Nevada Mountains, and locales as far away as The San Juan Mountains in Southwestern Colorado.

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    Kevin Cooley

    Still photograph of Fallen Water, 2015

    Multi-channel video installation

    Dimensions variable

    MORE about this artwork

    Fallen Water explores questions about why humans are drawn to waterfalls and flowing water as a source for renewal.  Waterfalls imbue subconscious associations with pristine and healthy drinking water, but what happens when when the fountain can no longer renew itself? Is the water is no longer pure?  Cooley’s choice of subject matter strikes a deep chord with current social consciousness and anxieties about contemporary water usage and the drought crisis faced by the American West.  Cooley references Blake’s famous quote from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell as context for the diametric opposites of the current water conundrum:  our deep sense of entitlement to and dire dependence on this precious commodity, coupled with a pervasive obliviousness concerning the sources which supply it.  As a way to connect with his personal water use, Cooley hiked into the mountains to see firsthand the snowpack (or lack thereof), streams, and aquifers which feed the water sources supplying his Los Angeles home.  This installation is an amalgamation of videos made over numerous trips to remote locations in The San Gabriel Mountains, The Sierra Nevada Mountains, and locales as far away as The San Juan Mountains in Southwestern Colorado.

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    Kevin Cooley

    Clip from Fallen Water, 2015

    Multi-channel video installation

    Dimensions variable

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Kevin Cooley | Fallen Water

June 06 – August 30, 2015

In his first exhibit with Catharine Clark Gallery, Kevin Cooley's media room exhibition features the multi-channel video installation Fallen Water: a visual exploration of the waterfalls and waterways that feed the city of Los Angeles, California.

Closing event: SAT AUG 29, 3 - 5 pm

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