Coop

Coop (aka: Chris Cooper) - Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1968.
Coop finished high school, skipped art school, and arrived in Los Angeles in the late 80's where he immediately got to work subverting the mainstream. Chances are good you've seen some manifestation of his merchandising juggernaut: smoking devils, devil-girls, hotrods, space aliens or monsters on posters, t-shirts, hats, stickers, stationery sets, skate boards, toys, shot glasses, Zippo lighters, and so much more.



He's done roughly 100 posters, including rock posters for Nirvana, Soundgarden, The Sex Pistols and many others, and album cover art for everyone from the Monomen to the Ramones. Cleveland's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame houses two of Coop's posters in its permanent collection. He cites Robert Williams, R. Crumb and Eric Stanton as some of his favorites and great influences, in addition to Big Daddy Roth, Irving Klaw, Wally Wood, Gil Elvgren, and a host of other degenerates.

Coop's first solo exhibition was in Los Angeles in 1993, and since then his artwork has been shown throughout the world. Coop went on to publish two books in the fall of 2001 and 2002. In 2007, following a car accident that broke his leg and kept him from painting for months, Coop rekindled his lifelong interest in photography. To date he has more than 20,000 images posted on Flickr, and is in the process of collecting photos for a new book.
Check out Coop's site at www.coopstuff.com

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