Artist Bio: Carlisle Cooper

Carlisle Cooper, a native of North Carolina, attended Duke University, Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, American Academy of Art (Chicago), the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (B.A.E. and M.A.E. Degrees), and in the Los Angeles area, Chouinard and U.C.L.A. He is now a college art instructor in Ventura, California.

Among his teachers, he lists Isobel McKinnon Rupprecht and Edgar Rupprecht (original students and sponsors of Hans Hoffman from his school in Germany to the United States); Boris Anisfeld, internationally known Russian painter and former set-designer for the Metropolitan Opera House, New York; and William Mosby (graduate of Brussels Academy of Fine Art, Belgium).

He has exhibited paintings in Chicago, Seattle, Ventura, Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, and Palm Springs. During the past few years, he has had over 25 one-man exhibitions. His work has always been concerned with the human condition - the problem of man's relationship to Truth and the problem of man's soul-psyche remaining individualistic and triumphant over the mechanized and computerized era in which we find ourselves. He believes that art's important role in this era is what it has always been in history -- to reveal man to himself.