Opens Tonight, Jan 7, 6-8p:
Monica Cook
”Volley”
Postmasters Gallery, 459 W19th St., NYC
Monica Cook’s animation “Volley”, along with new sculptures on view for the first time. Her stop-motion animation fully exploits the uncanny potential of the medium. Cook’s laser-like attention to every millimeter of surface was developed during her years as a painter, rendering meticulous depictions of flesh. Her sculptural sensibility is attuned to surface texture, opacity and luminosity. These sculptures have the extra duty of performance in creating her animated work. Volley is a love story, a beautiful and painfully honest one. Its protagonists are candycolored primates who dwell in otherworldly crystal caves. This environment, and the bodies of its inhabitants, are colored, adorned, and vivified by powerful fantasies. Wordless yet eloquent, the monkeys dream of love. A skull-faced monkey seduces his darling in a blacklit reverie of efflorescent fluid. A beloved mother-monkey is envisioned as a levitating goddess. Here, love is the power to ennoble and elevate the beloved.
