Ethan Cook is a painter, but he doesn’t have any paint in his studio. His new exhibition, *Problem in Chair Not in Computer,* up now at American Contemporary, presents a strong body of work made up of hand-woven canvas pieces that he makes on a wooden loom in his Greenpoint studio—but he is not a weaver. Between the three “failed chair” sculptures in the show and the hand-woven canvases, Cook’s work presents failure as the ultimate artistic gesture. But failure is relative. Alongside machine-made material, Cook’s hand-woven canvas pieces expose the human touch in the weave, the inconsistencies, the inability to make canvas in the same manner as the machine. We caught up with Cook last week.
Year: 2014
Clients: Interview Magazine
Category: Interview