White Room: Kevin Cooley

Kevin Cooley presents photographs from the series “Night for Night.” These photographs depict outdoor nighttime landscapes taken in close proximity to movie and television shoots (the series title is a term used in the film industry for shooting on location at night). The bright lights used in after hours production fill the night sky with an eerie, synthetic illumination. These images capture a gray area in which the fantasy and artifice of Hollywood overlaps with ordinary reality. Similar to Rettig, Cooley seeks to question what separates public from private domain, personal from shared experience, and examine the remnants of human action. Cooley lives in Brooklyn and holds a MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York. This will be Cooley’s first solo exhibition. He will have a two-person show at Momenta, opening late November 2002.