Amanda Hope Cook

Primarily, I am an oil painter whose subject matter centers on neon signage and familiar urban places. I also work in other paint mediums such as acrylic, gouache, watercolor, as well as drawing mediums. I occasionally turn to more traditional subjects such as landscapes and still-lifes.
Most of my work portrays signs not only for their everyday function, but as pieces of design and art in themselves. I am especially interested in light and atmosphere, and in how both daylight and artificial light transform these objects and their surroundings.
Many of the signs and locations I paint are recognizable. I am drawn to their color, lettering, structure, and the way they become part of the identity and memory of a place, particularly as those places change or disappear.

Columbus College of Art & Design, 1999
Bachelor of Fine Arts, double major in Fine Art and Illustration

2026
Sometimes Just the Sky, Solo Exhibition
Sharon Weiss Gallery, Columbus, Ohio

2022
Night and Day, Solo Exhibition
Sharon Weiss Gallery, Columbus, Ohio

2021
PLAY, Group Exhibition
The Bascom, A Center for the Visual Arts, Highlands, North Carolina

2019
ConnectArt, Group Exhibition
Lolo Galeria-Taller, Matanzas, Cuba

2018
The City, Solo Exhibition
Sharon Weiss Gallery, Columbus, Ohio

2017
The Painted City, Group Exhibition
The Schumacher Gallery, Capital University, Columbus, Ohio

2016
New Work, Solo Exhibition
Sharon Weiss Gallery, Columbus, Ohio

2015
Art Nashville, Group Exhibition
Haynes Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee

2015
Everywhere a Sign, Solo Exhibition
Miller Center for Visual Arts, Urbana University, Urbana, Ohio

2015
Contemporaries, Group Exhibition
Bonfoey Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio

2014
C-Bus, Solo Exhibition
Sharon Weiss Gallery, Columbus, Ohio

2009
Looking Up, Solo Exhibition
Hammond Harkins Gallery, Columbus, Ohio