Out of Mind
COOPER COLE•Mar 28, 2026 — May 02, 2026
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COOPER COLE is pleased to announce Out of Mind, an exhibition of new paintings by John Riepenhoff. The exhibition brings together a recent body of sky paintings that continue Riepenhoff’s long engagement with the act of looking upward. Rooted in earlier works based on obscured plein air observations of the night sky, these paintings distill accumulated observations of atmosphere, light, and time into intuitive yet systematic constellations of colour and pattern.
For more than a decade, Riepenhoff developed his sky paintings through an unusual process of painting outdoors at night in near darkness. Working under conditions that privileged the subtleties of stars over the surface of the canvas, he would paint continuously until dawn, seeing the finished work clearly only in daylight. This approach allowed the artist to sidestep aesthetic habits and expectations and opened the possibility for discovery within the act of painting itself. Many of the earliest works in the series were…
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Out of Mind
COOPER COLE•Mar 28, 2026 — May 02, 2026
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COOPER COLE is pleased to announce Out of Mind, an exhibition of new paintings by John Riepenhoff. The exhibition brings together a recent body of sky paintings that continue Riepenhoff’s long engagement with the act of looking upward. Rooted in earlier works based on obscured plein air observations of the night sky, these paintings distill accumulated observations of atmosphere, light, and time into intuitive yet systematic constellations of colour and pattern.
For more than a decade, Riepenhoff developed his sky paintings through an unusual process of painting outdoors at night in near darkness. Working under conditions that privileged the subtleties of stars over the surface of the canvas, he would paint continuously until dawn, seeing the finished work clearly only in daylight. This approach allowed the artist to sidestep aesthetic habits and expectations and opened the possibility for discovery within the act of painting itself. Many of the earliest works in the series were…
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