Mike Cockrill

Mike Cockrill: has been making conceptually engaged, socially challenging work since his first exhibitions in Brooklyn and the East Village in the early 1980s. He grew up in the suburbs of Washington, DC in the Cold War era. He has a particular affinity for the pop–culture images of postwar America and their darker subtexts. Classically trained at PAFA, he employs a deep understanding of visual idioms that he deftly twists. His art is ever evolving: often playing the unnerving against the sublime. He lives and works in Brooklyn.