BOOK SIGNING with Artist Dave Cooper

About

Dave Cooper was born in Nova Scotia in 1967.Dave began his career in the 90s, making underground comics for Seattle'sFantagraphics Books. His best work from that period was a 5-issue series called,Weasel. One story that was serialized in Weasel later became the psycho-eroticgraphic novelRipple-which sported an introduction by David Cronenberg.After comics, Dave turned his attention to oil painting, putting on solo shows alternatelyat galleries in Los Angeles and New York City. He also had a large retrospective of hiscomicbook artwork in both Angouleme and Paris in 2002. Monographs of his paintingsfrom that time included introductions by comedian David Cross, and filmmakerGuillermo del Toro.Around 2008 Dave began focussing on the field of animation, ultimately getting two ofhis original kids tv shows greenlit-PIG GOAT BANANA CRICKETfor Nickelodeon,andTHE BAGEL AND BECKY SHOWfor Teletoon/BBC. His short adult film,THEABSENCE OF EDDY TABLEwas released in the fall of 2016 to much acclaim.In the summer of 2017 Dave returned to oil painting, embarking on personalexplorations, commissions. He also completed his largest single commission for theMadrid museum Coleccion Solo- a 13' wide nod to Bosch's The Garden of EarthlyDelights.When the pandemic hit, Dave spent a couple of years working as a visual developmentartist on feature film projects at Sony Pictures, and Dreamworks. During that same timehe made time to continue expanding the scope of his personal work, experimenting withnew, perverse worlds and characters on canvas and paper, writing animated and live-action screenplays, and on composing experimental music.Since 2017 -concurrent with all those various projects- Dave has been graduallyamassing a body of ambitious new work for his largest gallery show to date- 42paintings for Galerie Daniel Maghen, in Paris, April 2023.In 2019, the French publisher Cernunnos released a 400-pg English/Frenchretrospective of Dave's work,Pillowy, the art of dave cooper. Also in 2019,Dave joined the board of directors of Ottawa's cutting edge artist run centre Saw

In 2022 Dave’s first live-action short film,Squashwas accepted into prestigious filmfestivals- Finland’s Tampere Film Festival, and Italy’s Concorto Film Festival.Dave maintains a healthy presence on instagram where he posts past work, new work, work-in-progress videos, and absolutely riveting bicycling and cooking snapshots. Youcan find him at @davecooper67. He also sells selected original works atdavecooper.bigcartel.comDave lives in Ottawa Canada