Tara Cooper, Clear as a Bell, screen print, 2012
March 3 – 25, 2012
Opening: Saturday, March 3, 2–5 p.m.
Q&A Section: Sunday, March 25, 3 p.m.
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With forecasts we’re told to heed warnings—hope for the best, but prepare for the worst. Tara Cooper’s Weather Wise assembles a compendium of weather lore and superstitions from cloud nines to fair weather friends to silver linings. It is the next chapter in her ongoing series/alter ego Weather Girl, a project that mixes an amateur’s enthusiasm for meteorology with found objects, video and print.
Beneath the rubric of Canadian Nature, Cooper’s observations combine fieldwork and footwork moving from the amateur ornithologist, to the idea of north, to her most recent study involving the language of weather—the statistical forecast versus the personal encounter. Cooper received her Master of Fine Arts from Cornell University in 2008, specializing in the disciplines of print, film and installation. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Fine Arts at the University of Waterloo.
Please join the artist in celebrating the opening reception on Saturday, March 3rd from 2-5 p.m. Learn more Tara Cooper’s work during a Question & Answer Session at loop on Sunday, March 25th, 2 p.m.