{"id":8600,"date":"2020-02-24T10:30:19","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T15:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=8600"},"modified":"2025-02-11T15:41:06","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T20:41:06","slug":"nigel-cooke-at-pace-gallery-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/24\/nigel-cooke-at-pace-gallery-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigel Cooke, Gazing at Pace Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British artist Nigel Cooke has long blurred the line between abstraction and figuration, but recent monochromatic paintings on raw canvas at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacegallery.com\/exhibitions\/nigel-cooke-4\/\">Pace Gallery<\/a> convey new urgency and dynamism.\u00a0 By contrasting surface areas of relative calm with intersecting webs of paint receding into the distance, Cooke suggests that focus can be achieved and released, instantly altering our perspective on the environments surrounding us.\u00a0 (On view through Feb 29<sup>th<\/sup>).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8601\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8601\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/24\/nigel-cooke-at-pace-gallery-2\/nigel_cooke\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8601\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8601\" src=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/nigel_cooke.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"681\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/nigel_cooke.jpg 1558w, https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/nigel_cooke-110x150.jpg 110w, https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/nigel_cooke-294x400.jpg 294w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8601\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nigel Cooke, Gazing, oil and acrylic on linen, 88 9\/16 x 64 9\/16 inches, 2019.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British artist Nigel Cooke has long blurred the line between abstraction and figuration, but recent monochromatic paintings on raw canvas at Pace Gallery convey new urgency and dynamism.\u00a0 By contrasting surface areas of relative calm with intersecting webs of paint receding into the distance, Cooke suggests that focus can be achieved and released, instantly altering &hellip; 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