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Cook Colin – Dard

Galerie Jean-Roch Dard
13 rue des Arquebusiers- 75003 Paris
September 10 - October 12

Gallery jeanroch dard is happy to present terribly beautiful, American artist Colin Cook’s first solo show in France. The drawings in this series are the result of Colin Cook’s ongoing collaboration with his friend and self-described non-artist, Bill Shambaugh.
The idea behind this work is simply to combine the styles of two very different hands –one naïve and one practiced– within the same drawing. The contrast is direct and unmistakable. Bill’s figures bluntly intrude upon the more ordered world of academic drawing. Yet these intrusions also reveal a strange unity in which the notions of high/ low, good/ bad, amateur/ professional are made equitable.This collaboration also exposes a fundamental theme appearing in much of Colin Cook’s work: that there be an internal dialogue within each piece that seeks to subvert and undermine itself.

« As humor blends with perversity, uncomfortable relationships are formed.
Uncovering these moments is the drive behind much of my current work with Bill. »

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