Pear in Red Painting

Drew Cooke is a New Orleans artist working in conceptual and representative formats, mainly focusing on interactions between cities and nature, within groups of people, and between his existence and the objects connected to it. His conceptual work, photo collages, and sculptural paintings have been shown at galleries in New York City, New Orleans, and Oklahoma City. Major artistic influences include Robert Rauschenberg, Tim Hawkinson, Walter Anderson and El Anatsui. Degrees in mathematics and English also contribute to the aesthetics and narratives of his works. In 2015, he abandoned 8 years in mathematical analysis and software development to fully return to artistic pursuits. He is currently working on a series of "art proofs" attempting to logically examine assumptions on gun control and economics, and continuing the Repackaged series examining garbage as personal and social history.