Will Boone
Emily Budd
Jerry Bywaters
Carrie Cook
Ali Dipp
Jim Franklin
Emile Guidroz
Alexandre Hogue
Carol Ivey
El Franco Lee ii
William Lester
Sam Linguist
Daryl Meador
Coreen Spellman
Reverend Johnnie Swearingen
George Zupp
March 14 - May 23, 2026
Gallery Hours: Thursday - Saturday, 12-5pm & by appointment
April 16 - 19, 2026
Booth B8
Carrie Cook
Nature of Things is pleased to share a solo presentation of paintings for the 18th edition of the Dallas Art Fair.
Carrie Cook’s paintings invite you in intimately with recognizable objects—coffee cups, cigarettes, salt-rimmed margarita glasses, orange slices, tables, waterfalls—but slip into a feeling of otherness, something that eludes exact recognition. Cook’s paintings move between a large and small scale, both which require and are treated with athletic vigor and sustained attention. This becomes apparent when looking at Cook’s surfaces of her paintings; her precision and looseness within the same picture plane, where certain areas are worked in a precise and dense manner, while others come through with light-handed brushstrokes. The paintings feel elemental, emotional, sometimes wet and fluid, other times dry and earthy. That movement between worlds is essential in Cook’s work. Cook expressed: “I’m interested in the way pushing one’s body and psyche through the physicality of painting brings psychological content to the surface.” Elements of Cook’s painting are sourced from her personal photo archive, which she prints out and arranges on a table to construct, collaging together disparate experiences thematically or formally. A red patterned carpet rises up against a circular brown table in Brown Table, Red Rug—two disparate autobiographical experiences, places, and elements transcend image into painting. Cook’s paintings evoke a space that we already inhabit and yet cannot discern, the hallway in a dream in which we never reach the end.
Carrie Cook (b. 1984, Nashville, TN and raised in Abilene , TX), lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. She holds a MFA from the University of Houston and a BFA from the University of Texas, Austin. Her work has been exhibited at Five Churches in Los Angeles, Best Western in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Goldfinch Gallery in Chicago, Baik Gallery, Seoul, CFHILL, Stockholm, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, Make Room, Los Angeles, Tyler Park Presents, Los Angeles, Below Grand, New York, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, and Blaffer Museum of Art, Houston and featured in publications such as Bat City Review, Art Maze Magazine and Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles.