Barbara Cooper at the Chicago Cultural Center.(art exhibition)

Art in America | April 1, 2007| | Copyright

Nature is Barbara Cooper's starting point. She returns to it again and again, but always from different perspectives and with fresh energy. Her recent exhibition at the Chicago Cultural Center--three cast-iron floor sculptures and four 5-by-10-foot charcoal drawings--marks a dramatic change and renewed initiative in her work.

For many years, the artist has glued together layers of wood-veneer scrap to construct hollow sculptures whose compact, rounded and twisted forms suggest wasp nests, fungi, pods and tree trunks. The surfaces of these works recall bark, fish ...

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