It all started like this.... In 2004, while working as a slave for JPMorgan Chase, 25-year-old Mitchell Cooper made a small drawing in his cubicle out of boredom. A month latter he had transformed his cubicle into a installation piece that incorporates 54 individual drawings and conceptual pieces that are all conversing with one another on the decline of modern values – he calls it “Cube Fever”. Shortly after his first creation, Cooper began making work in a small studio located on East 11th Street in the East Village of lower Manhattan. By late 2006, Cooper had outgrown the East Village space and relocated to a much larger studio in a converted chocolate factory on the corner of West Broadway and Canal Street.


Cooper’s early work consists of large scale collages and installations that involve an honest questioning of all doctrines that drain life’s energies, however socially prevalent they may be: marriage, love, success, education, religion and happiness to name a few. His goal when creating a collage is to break down the truth to the “root level.”


Since moving into the SoHo studio in early 2007, Cooper’s work has been heavily influenced by his relationship with 19-year-old Russian runway model, Anna Barsukova. Over the past two years he has begun a series of portraits and sculptures of Barsukova and numerous other up and coming runway models that currently have agencies and reside in the New York City area.

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