Leah Cooper is an artist who is fascinated by the extraordinary world that exists within the smallest detail of the ordinary.  Her work questions our perception of the everyday and explores an expanded notion of drawing.  She employs the idea of drawing as strategy in order to investigate the influence of visual information on a viewer’s subjective perception of object and place.

Working outside the traditional definition of drawing as a 2-dimensional representation of the 3-dimensional world she uses drawing as a means to iterate rather than illustrate a variable framework of information. These resulting site-responsive installations are of the space and the space simultaneously. Iterations, both of object and place, are not static, fixed end-products. Rather she aims to create pieces that function as open works, pointing to a field of possibilities rather than a static fait accompli. Leah is an avid observer, a determined thinker, a purposeful maker, and an artist who designates a piece successful when it has generated more questions, rather than illustrated a single answer

 Leah Cooper received her MFA from Maryland Institute College of Art in 2009, where she was awarded the MFA in Studio Art Fellowship.  She received her BA in Studio Art from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1989. Since 1989 she has lived and worked in Baltimore. Leah was a 2010 Sondheim Finalist and a 2011 recipient of a Maryland State Art Council Individual Artist Grant. She has shown in the mid-atlantic region at The Baltimore Museum of Art, The Creative Alliance, Montpellier Arts Center, and RTKL Architecture Firm.