This is the first Solo Show of Cooper's limited-edition prints. It is in the Lazarus Gallery at TAG - The Artists Gallery April 23 - May 16, 2025. The Opening Reception is April 26 and discussions with the artist are on May 10, 3pm-5pm.

The cover piece "Playa Santa Maria Sunset" was taken walking back from what our family calls our Saturday Beach at the moment the sunset was partially blocked by the building that houses our apartment in Cádiz, Spain. Recognizing and capturing fleeting moments so that these moments can be enjoyed at leisure is one aspect of recovering from the speed of living in real time. Moments earlier or steps further do not capture the beauty of the sunset and the story behind this particular point of view.

Sitting at the breakfast table one winter morning I saw the beginning of a beautiful sunrise. In the time it took to cross the living room, open the doors to our south balcony and open a window to get an unobstructed view to the southeast, the scene morphed into this fiery array of clouds I captured. To take in its beauty takes more time than real time provides. Reflect and the image is gone. Capture the moment and you can take your time enjoying it.

The Cathedral in Cádiz is worthy of a show in itself and many images of it are included in The Cooper Gallery Collection. This image, taken from the roof of my apartment in the magic light of late afternoon, captures a seagull posing in front of the Cathedral, the shadows formed by buildings leading to Cathedral square, the splendor of the Cathedral itself, a small view of the Gulf of Cádiz, and the row of wind turbines on the far shore. The wonderful resolution stokes the ability to tell stories within and across these layers. The next port counterclockwise from Cádiz on the Gulf of Cádiz is Santa Maria, as in The Niña, The Pinta, and The Santa Maria, which launched from that port in 1492.

Our favorite hotel in Madrid has a stained-glass dome over the dining room. Just as I sat down for morning coffee, I saw the dome, with the early sun streaming behind, reflected in my coffee spoon. The mindset of looking for the beauty in the world is rewarding in itself. Actively looking for beauty is a joy I've rediscovered since returning to the visual arts. Finding such a beautiful vignette is a great bonus. Sharing it with others is even better.

Even in this tranquil image of strollers at La Caleta near a winter sunset tells a longer story, at actual scale, the strollers are clearly seen all the way to Castillo de San Sebastian. Strolling on this causeway to watch the sunset is a rite of passage for couples in a relationship. In good ones the strolls continue.

Cádiz is a very old port city, with many centuries of stories to tell. The Spanish blew up Castillo de San Sebastian during the Spanish-American War so that the Americans could not use it. Millennia earlier, this site housed the Temple of Kronos, honoring the father of Zeus.

This photo was taken in the year before the fortress was reopened to the public after being shuttered for many years. Now sunset strolls are even more populated. Older locals tell of diving off the white pavilion at the left safely into deep water. The tides, which strand many barcos when low, now never come close to the pavilion when high.

This is composed of two images that Ann captured on her phone, while walking to the market one morning. Campo del Sur runs along the seawall just south of our apartment to the fortress wall that separates the old city from the newer peninsula. The fresh market, with many of the real delights of Spanish-village life, is between the Cathedral and Ann's point of view. Photo stitching has been around for a long time, so making this image didn't take much skill. It's Ann's eye that makes this image compelling.

I started thinking about returning to printmaking a few years ago after reading an article on the new generation of fine-art printers and new pigment inks developed to last more than 200 years. I loved printmaking in the 1970s, but the realities of academic life led me to focus my creative efforts on scholarly writings and the research that back them.

One very pleasant result of the new inks is the compelling luminosity I see in the sunlight reflecting off the Atlantic in this image taken in Cádiz on the Winter Solstice. It captures a bit of what attracts me to the works of William Turner. One way or another, luminosity factors into every image I print.

It's named "Peter's Sunset" after a generous donor to The Los Angeles Ballet.

This is the same vantage point as Peter's Sunset. It's the same time of day and general time of year. Yet the color pallet is so different. I continue to be surprised. It's another dimension of real time to capture.

This is the Guadalquivir River in Sevilla that empties into the Gulf of Cádiz. Not just Spain, everywhere in the world where sun, water, and land intersect, nature creates magical portraits every day,

This was taken during the super moon of August 2023. The source of luminosity can be anything throwing off lumens. While the moon and its reflections dominate, the interior light from the #2 bus, reflecting off the bus stop draw the reflections to the edge.

The Lazarus Gallery, upstairs at TAG is named after watercolorist Shelly Lazarus, a founder of TAG. It has one featured space just opposite where you enter the door to the room. I did not think my horizontal prints would show well. One horizontal image alone couldn't command the space I wanted this first impression to make. So, I created a triptych out of one of my favorite images and concatenated them. This is based on El Faro Sunset. I felt the commanding lines of the seawall, the waters, the sunset, and the sky would unite these images across frames. The other prints in this show are perfect for the side walls of this gallery.