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Public Gallery is pleased to present Bucolic Cob, Emma cc Cook’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. Across eight heavily layered paintings of oil and acrylic on linen, Cook explores with systemic precision how accelerated capitalism and industrialization cast shadows across rural America. Her works serve as an archive, or perhaps a tombstone, blending speculative fiction with her Minnesota upbringing, to capture the no man’s land of the American mid-west — a hybridization of its mythical past and forgotten future — while advancing the contemporary genre of landscape painting.
Fields of textured oil paint fall into lines like troops in formation, serving as the building blocks for her expansive landscapes. In works such as Snidley Whiplash (2025), rows of floral motifs tug toward the horizon, a form of repetition that Cook describes as an exercise in tedium. Perhaps suggestive of the working masses, they simultaneously read like a chromosomal body mutated, alienated from its…
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Public Gallery is pleased to present Bucolic Cob, Emma cc Cook’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. Across eight heavily layered paintings of oil and acrylic on linen, Cook explores with systemic precision how accelerated capitalism and industrialization cast shadows across rural America. Her works serve as an archive, or perhaps a tombstone, blending speculative fiction with her Minnesota upbringing, to capture the no man’s land of the American mid-west — a hybridization of its mythical past and forgotten future — while advancing the contemporary genre of landscape painting.
Fields of textured oil paint fall into lines like troops in formation, serving as the building blocks for her expansive landscapes. In works such as Snidley Whiplash (2025), rows of floral motifs tug toward the horizon, a form of repetition that Cook describes as an exercise in tedium. Perhaps suggestive of the working masses, they simultaneously read like a chromosomal body mutated, alienated from its…
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