Lynse A. Cooper was one of her grandfather’s caretakers for several years, until his recent death in 2022. Myrtle Vista, an exhibition including analog and digital photography and sculpture, explores Cooper’s relationship to her grandfather, his life, and her paternal grandparent’s home before and after his death. The series of works exhibited in /room/ emerged from Cooper’s deep engagement with their home, which became an archive the artist combed through.

Cooper’s practice is primarily rooted in photography, more recently expanding to other mediums including sculpture and textile. Her practice utilizes a hybrid of image-making tools and research methodologies to explore interests including the archive, chance, aesthetics, and death culture. The resulting works construct narratives around family, Black American domesticity, representations of the body, and absence.

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