{"id":46546,"date":"2023-03-24T13:34:27","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T18:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/?p=46546"},"modified":"2023-06-03T18:08:26","modified_gmt":"2023-06-03T23:08:26","slug":"sam-cockrell-a-man-of-two-worlds-international-waters-international-objects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2023\/03\/24\/sam-cockrell-a-man-of-two-worlds-international-waters-international-objects\/","title":{"rendered":"~SAM COCKRELL . . MAN OF TWO WORLDS \/ INTERNATIONAL WATERS !! & INTERNATIONAL OBJECTS !!"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAM COCKRELL – ‘MORPHO’ at INTERNATIONAL WATERS \/ BROOKLYN<\/a>
\nHAS BEEN EXTENDED . . . THRU APRIL 23rd<\/strong>
\nVIEWING HRS: SAT & SUN \/ 2 – 4 PM <\/p>\n

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *<\/p>\n

SAM COCKRELL – A MAN OF TWO WORLDS<\/p>\n

‘MORPHO’ – & – ‘LOCAL OBJECTS’ <\/strong><\/p>\n

SAM COCKRELL . . . . <\/strong> finds himself with work \/
\nin 2 <\/strong> very different galleries this weekend, and although the 2 galleries seem<\/strong> to be associated \/ the shows, the first a solo show, and the second a big group show \/ and the galleries themselves are<\/strong> in many respects, as different as day is from night. <\/p>\n

the most important difference for you<\/strong> at this particular moment \/ is that one show, ‘Morpho’, is closing<\/strong> this weekend, and you don’t<\/strong> want to miss it \/
\nso, let’s begin there:<\/p>\n

‘SAM COCKRELL: MORPHO’ . . . LAST WEEKEND !!!!
\n‘MORPHO’ OPENED JAN 27 & is . . . .
\nstill open: ONLY FOR THIS<\/strong> WEEKEND: SAT & SUN \/ MARCH 25 & 26, 2023.
\nINTERNATIONAL WATERS<\/a>, 262 Meserole St., Brooklyn \/ East Williamsburg \/ Bushwick, NYC
\nbehind Newton Radio \/
\nHRS: SAT & SUN \/ 2 – 4 PM<\/p>\n

see:<\/strong> the well written exhibition statement & gorgeous installation photos<\/a><\/p>\n

so, what can I say ?
\nGET READY<\/strong> TO RE-SET YOUR ‘HUMAN-TO-EARTH’ \/ BRAIN, and put<\/strong> your SCI-FI ears on.<\/p>\n

“FOR COCKRELL . . an obsession with butterflies & moths has emerged through a daily painting practice. Using an airbrush, Cockrell’s paintings double as an archive<\/strong> of relations between the artist & various forms of animalia<\/strong>.”
\n“By using an airbrush, his gesture is a soft one that is careful to never make contact with his surface. In a field blur, Cockrell’s creatures fall<\/strong> into their environment… Each work recalls a photographic instant<\/strong>; the paintings capture static objects that would otherwise seemingly be in motion. For Cockrell, butterflies & moths possess a history<\/strong> of human <\/strong>iconography & also represent a planetary<\/strong> history.”
\n~GALLERY NOTES<\/p>\n

“the writer VLADIMIR NABOKOV, also a well known Lepidopterist, was obsessed with butterflies & moths as image-producing<\/strong> insects. Characterizing their wings as exploits (!!!!), Nabokov likens the butterfly to a deceiver <\/strong> with artistic impetus.”
\n~GALLERY NOTES<\/p>\n

artlovers:<\/strong> what I find most entrancing in these works, along with the bold color range, and even a sense of embroidery (!!), is just that: the very non-auto, slightly diffused focus \/ which is used here as a deliberate visual device, a signifier \/ of time, movement & which gesture is a very human, a very painterly, contrarian effect \/ auto-focus being<\/strong> all we see these days. our smart cameras are all about sharp focus . . marking these slightly out of focus paintings, which began with scientific observation \/ as uniquely man-made<\/strong>.
\nmade by a painter – with a stubborn ego !!
\nMan of Two Worlds !! science vs art.
\nit’s a deliberate pictorial stand vs. the advanced technology of today.
\nthough its surface – is painted with an air brush \/ which is new technology, in the history of painting
\nMan of Two Worlds.
\nand yet, for all our tech advances, instant auto-focus which even a child can employ is pretty amazing \/ yet, now we have a global survival problem – the super threatening decline \/ of the ecology of this planet, or as we knew it.
\nsome trade-off.
\nMan of Two Worlds. auto-focus for everyone on the one hand \/ loss of nature, our animals & habitat on the other. <\/p>\n

and, oh. yeah. the . . backgrounds. that spray paint – is just crazy – hellbent !!
\nand, animal \/ seduction . . . by pattern ? \/ works every time.<\/p>\n

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\nSAM COCKRELL, ‘Eastern Tiger Swallow, Yellow Morph’, 2022.
\nacrylic on canvas \/
\n93 x 67 in. <\/p>\n

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\nSAM COCKRELL, ‘Eastern Tiger Swallow, Black Morph’, 2022.
\nacrylic on canvas \/
\n36 x 36 in. <\/p>\n

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\nSAM COCKRELL, ‘MORPHO’ – INSTALLATION SHOT
\nnote:<\/strong> ALL 3 IMAGES ABOVE COURTESY: INTERNATIONAL WATERS<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nINTERNATIONAL WATERS, 262 MESEROLE ST., BROOKLYN, NYC
\nbehind these worn, but mighty old doors \/ behind Newton Radio, lies . . International Waters.
\nthe building is as grimmy, and grit – as old school NYC used to be, for sure.
\ntough & rough \/ the artists and buildings . . alike.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nin sci-fi . . this grungy underground ‘garage’ from the deep past, would be where the rebels would hang out, and scheme. that wide arched doorway, in all reality the entrance to a 19th C. carriage house, where the horses brought in their wagons.
\nin sci-fi . . this would be the shady workshop, where those grubby, die-heard, outlaw heroes stealthily cobbled scrap . . into small vehicles \/ the better to take down – the whole mass-future, whether it be Human? Ai? Mutated? Alien?
\nMan of Two Worlds, it’s funny how this old horse & buggy doorway, now put to modern pedestrian use \/ screams sci fi . . . and, to think there’s air brush butterflies within, flitting about \/ that’s history meets science & goes . . ballistic.
\nseriously, the whole show is so<\/strong> subversive, and it’s just . . butterflies ?
\nmust be – the spray paint.<\/p>\n

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\nyep. the sign says: 1875 !!
\nso great when they used to time-stamp – all those historic buildings.
\nnote:<\/strong> all 3 photos above, of Meserole St., BROOKLYN: NANCY SMITH <\/p>\n

ps:<\/strong> INTERNATIONAL WATERS is run by: MATT TABER & TRANG TRAN \/ as per the website.<\/p>\n

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\nSAM COCKRELL, ‘Self Portrait’,
\nacrylic on canvas \/ 41 x 132 in.
\nPHOTO: NANCY SMITH <\/p>\n

and, if that ‘shaped’ painting isn’t \/ HUMAN-centric, and sci-fi scary . . Man of Two Worlds,
\nI don’t<\/strong> know, what is.
\nyou can get a real sense of how frail a human is vs. how potent, and vibrant \/ the inner soul of an artist is. <\/p>\n

and then: going forward, gallery-wise<\/strong><\/p>\n

SAM has . . . <\/strong>
\nthis great . . . great, eerie \/ sharp, deep red & green, super-wired \/ but, deathly static . . . self portrait !!
\ndead to the bone, on a surf board ?
\nin ‘LOCAL OBJECTS’, a big, futuristic-leaning<\/strong> . . group show that just opened, in the new \/ new construction, elegant brute . . INTERNATIONAL OBJECTS gallery, a few blocks away.
\n if that building, all big, bold open space, concrete & glass . . doesn’t signal \/ elite palace from an alien future, what does ? <\/p>\n

ps:<\/strong> International Waters is also run by MATT TABER and TRANG TRAN, except now with the addition of partners . . NATE HEIGES and ANNAKA OLSEN.<\/p>\n

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\nall concrete, steel & glass \/ the gallery is on the top floor, and has use of the penthouse roof\/terraces – to great effect, with expansive views of the Manhattan skyline, in the distance.
\nINTERNATIONAL OBJECTS<\/a>, 53 SCOTT AVE., EAST WILLIAMSBURG, BUSHWICK, BROOKLYN, NY 11237
\nHRS: THURS – SUN \/ 12 – 6 PM
\nPHOTO: NANCY SMITH<\/p>\n

‘LOCAL OBJECTS’ – is on view thru . . . MAY 28, 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>see:<\/strong><\/p>\n

‘Man of Two Worlds’, by Sir Maui Pomare. 1953
\n‘Man of Two Worlds’, by Raymond F. Jones. 1963
\n‘Man of Two Worlds’, by Walter Raleigh. 1964
\n‘Man of Two Worlds’, by Frank Herbert & Brian Herbert. 1986<\/p>\n

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