Untitled | Teke Cocina
Rio Gallery III | February 1st - 26th | Saturdays, 10am - 3pm
Communities, history, and societal structures weigh heavily in the way that individuals construct their identities. My practice, which explores the ways we create and perform our identities has manifested work in the form of prints, books, sculptures, videos, and installations. My most recent work examines the influence of desire as a force for the way we shape our identities and interactions with the world - both as an internal, generative ideal and as an external expectation. My works, in their presentation, often ride the line between an institutional art context and the “real world,” with references from art history, pop culture, literature, and personal archives.
About the Artist
Teke cocina is an interdisciplinary artist and living in New York who makes prints, books, sculptures, stickers, videos, interventions, statements, whispers, [etc.] about: stars, queerness, aliens, love, the weather, friendship, memories, photographs, trees, Hendrik Goltzius, Hercules, moire, shadows, [etc.]. He received a BFA in Print Media from the University at Buffalo, and an MFA in Visual Art from Purchase College - where he taught and worked for several years before joining Parsons' Making Center as a Full-Time Technician in the Printmaking Studio. Recently, he has had work accepted to the Library of Congress as part of a collection of queer zines.