Alexander Thomas Cooper-Rye

Painter & InterdiFF FEsciplinary Researcher

Paintings investigating attention, perception, and the surface of computational systems. Each work explores the boundary between human visual cognition and algorith00 6D 69 63mic pattern recognition.

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Large-scale oil painting. Dense impasto surface with pink, blue, gold, purple, and red paint applied in heavy gestural strokes with dramatic dripping.

Untitled (All Channels)

Medium:
Oil on canvas
Year:
2020
Oil painting in gold, orange, magenta, and pink with heavy textural impasto. Yellow drips cascade from the left edge.

Contemporary

Medium:
Oil on canvas
Year:
2020
Oil painting with pink and magenta masses at left bleeding into yellow at right. Heavy drips in dark purple and yellow.

CY20 201

Medium:
Oil on canvas
Year:
2020
Oil painting dominated by warm yellows and oranges with magenta-pink eruption at upper left. Heavy vertical drips.

Yellow Drip

Medium:
Oil on canvas
Year:
2020
Oil painting in fluorescent pink, magenta, and orange on white ground. Vertical gestural strokes with areas of heavy scraping.

Fluro I

Medium:
Oil on canvas
Year:
2020
Oil painting in cadmium yellow and white with orange-red mass at lower right. Heavily worked surface.

Yellow

Medium:
Oil on canvas
Year:
2020
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Oil painting in white and pale blue with subtle grey undertones. Atmospheric, restrained. Black marks at the lower edge.

White (Again)

Medium:
Oil on canvas
Year:
2019
Square-format oil painting in deep cerulean and teal blue. Horizontal layering with emerging pink and green undertones.

Blue

Medium:
Oil on canvas
Year:
2019
Square-format oil painting in blue-purple and lavender. Vertical emphasis with teal undertones. Restrained, meditative.

Purple

Medium:
Oil on canvas
Year:
2019
Oil painting with teal, copper, and red tones. Weathered palimpsest quality with layers visible through scraping and erasure.

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Medium:
Oil on canvas
Year:
2020
Square-format oil painting in vivid green with yellow and blue accents. Thick gestural application.

Green

Medium:
Oil on canvas
Year:
2016
Oil painting in turquoise and cyan with luminous central field. Heavily scraped surface with visible underpainting.

Blue

Medium:
Oil on canvas
Year:
2016
Large-scale oil painting on dark ground. Explosive white marks against deep black, red, and dark green.

Untitled 4

Medium:
Oil on canvas
Year:
2015
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Watercolour on textured paper. Red-pink sphere at upper left, blue washes at centre, yellow at lower right.

Work on Paper 044

Medium:
Watercolour on paper
Year:
2020
Watercolour on textured paper. Pink, blue, and yellow washes blending softly. Ethereal.

Work on Paper 038

Medium:
Watercolour on paper
Year:
2020
Watercolour on textured paper. Purple and teal washes with lavender accents on creased white paper.

Work on Paper 001

Medium:
Watercolour on paper
Year:
2019
Watercolour on textured paper. Soft atmospheric washes in pink, blue, yellow, and green.

Work on Paper 045

Medium:
Watercolour on paper
Year:
2020
Watercolour on textured paper. Rich colour saturation with blues, pinks, and warm tones.

Work on Paper 046

Medium:
Watercolour on paper
Year:
2020
Watercolour on textured paper. Warm and cool tones in atmospheric balance.

Work on Paper 040

Medium:
Watercolour on paper
Year:
2020
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Watercolour on textured paper. Complex layering of transparent colour washes.

Work on Paper 042

Medium:
Watercolour on paper
Year:
2020
Watercolour on textured paper.

Work on Paper 043

Medium:
Watercolour on paper
Year:
2020
Watercolour on textured paper.

Work on Paper 039

Medium:
Watercolour on paper
Year:
2020
Watercolour on textured paper.

Work on Paper 036

Medium:
Watercolour on paper
Year:
2020
Watercolour on textured paper.

Work on Paper 035

Medium:
Watercolour on paper
Year:
2020
Watercolour on textured paper.

Work on Paper 034

Medium:
Watercolour on paper
Year:
2020
Watercolour on textured paper.

Work on Paper 033

Medium:
Watercolour on paper
Year:
2020
Watercolour on textured paper.

Work on Paper 037

Medium:
Watercolour on paper
Year:
2020
Watercolour on textured paper.

Work on Paper 026

Medium:
Watercolour on paper
Year:
2020
Watercolour on textured paper.

Work on Paper 015

Medium:
Watercolour on paper
Year:
2020
Watercolour on textured paper.

Work on Paper 014

Medium:
Watercolour on paper
Year:
2020
Watercolour on textured paper.

Work on Paper 004

Medium:
Watercolour on paper
Year:
2019
Watercolour on textured paper.

Work on Paper 003

Medium:
Watercolour on paper
Year:
2019
Watercolour on textured paper.

Work on Paper 002

Medium:
Watercolour on paper
Year:
2019

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Scanograph: face pressed against flatbed scanner, mirrored and doubled. Intimate, distorted self-portrait through the machine's eye.

Scanograph 001

Medium:
Flatbed scanner, 2400 dpi
Year:
2019

The body as input device. Face pressed to the scanner glass, rendered at machine resolution.

Oil painting on dark ground. Red, black, gold, and silver with heavy mixed-media impasto. Torn and folded material embedded in the surface.

Untitled 3

Medium:
Mixed media on canvas
Year:
2015

Painter, Interdisciplinary Researcher & Creative Technologist