Sara Cook's bio
Native New Yorker Sara Cook is not only a creative & highly trained artist, but a technological innovator in the conversion of lenticular 2-D into 3-D and even 2-D into
4-D graphics. Ms. Cook took part in the world's first 2-D into 3-D conversion which she achieved in 1994 before all other attempts to develop similiar techniques.
Cook could imbue roundness to a flat form. Any curvature required for portraying 3-D depth could be spun into place & jump out of scenes that took the viewer far beyond the current standard of flat cut-outs on different planes. Today she wields her own armamentarium of unique techniques.
Click here for more info on Exhibition Ultradelic, Sara Cook & Robert Munn's Winter 2007-2008 Art Show at The Proposition Gallery in Chelsea, NYC.
This photo of Gary Darrow, Robert Munn and Sara Cook was first seen in the "Tech Watch" Section of Computer Graphics World in 1994.
Sara grew up in Park Slope Brooklyn where she studied drawing and sculpture at the Brooklyn Museum for several years. In this awe-inspiring setting she sketched varied exhibits each week & was encouraged to touch these world famous works of art, to sense their tactile depth & experience their weight. Sara won numerous awards in nation-wide art competitions. At the Brooklyn Library she created a short animation film, then continued her studies at The Art Students' League in Manhattan. At Bucks Rock Camp where she studied with celebrated artist James Duprey, she taught oil painting & dimensional drawing techniques. After working as a stagehand throughout high school, she carried on her art studies at Hunter College, Fashion Institute of Design and the School of Visual Arts in New York City.
Also a talented dancer and choreographer, Sara has performed at the Copa Cabana, Nell's, The Pyramid, Sideshow by the Sea Shore, Earth Day at Prospect Park, and The Limelight. She co-founded a multi-media dance troupe- School of Fish & Siren Geniis.
Cook has played with bands recording and performing throughout the East Coast, did fashion modelling, worked in set design, costuming and designed flyers for many star studded events.
In 1992, at Giorgio Gomelsky's birthday gala, Sara met Robert Munn, Depthography Group's founder. He was about to open the world's first lenticular gallery. Munn had just figured out to capture actual animation over several seconds in a photograph and needed a subject. It was a serendipitous encounter that soon sparked the couple's first joint creation, The Siren Genii, a work in 4-D.
Sara took to the computer like a fish to water, making her one of New York's rare species, an offspring of the marriage of art & technology. Depthography Group also boasts an opus in 3-D multi-media slide presentations in which Cook's figure appears as an animated virtual screen. Images are seen through her suit in a piece entitled The Transparent Woman, exhibited both at the San Francisco Exploratorium and at the Georgio Gimelski's birthday celebration at the New York location where the Green Door parties are held.
At Depthography, Cook's work with Munn has been exhibited at Sony Amusement Park in Tokyo, Disney Imagineering, in Orlando Florida, Macy's Department Stores, Chanel Perfumes, The Warhol Estate, The United States Post Office, Department of Defense. HBO, Comedy Central Cable Network, Blockbuster Video,George Clinton & the P Funk Allstars, H R Giger, Janet Jackson, The United States Library of Medicine, Radio Station WFMU. Sara Cook has been creating singular art in this extraordinary avant-garde medium, and her body of work has been showcased and sold internationally.
Photo by Nancy Smith of artloversnewyork.com - Insider Report: NYC Art World
A few of the Exhibits Sara Cook has been involved with include:
VARGA GALLERY in Woodstock, NY presents The July Showcase of the VISIONARY ART COLLECTIVE. Show runs from July 10- August 10, 2010.
"EXHIBITION ULTRADELIC AND BEYOND" - Robert Munn & Sara Cook of The Depthography Group Retrospective 3-D Art Show at The Gershwin Hotel May 11- June 16, 2010
March Is 3D Month at Theatre 45 Bleecker/ Follin Gallery -Robert Munn & Sara Cook Solo Show Opens March 3rd, 2010 through April 12 !
Supernovas at The Chelsea Hotel
-Robert Munn & Sara Cook and Warhol Superstars Opened September 18th, 2009 through September 20 !
"Vitreous- Of Eyes And Optics"- A juried exhibition at The Esther Klein Gallery in Philadelphia July 24 through September 5, 2009
Solefood Gallery in Tribeca August 15, 2008 through present. "This unusual establishment also features the works of Robert Munn and Sara Cook, two artists that have experimented with the concept of depthography for decades and have come together to create mind-boggling 3-D pieces that force you to step back and rub your eyes in awe." Shirline Chowdhury of Beyond Race Magazine
Exhibition Ultradelic, Depthography 3D Art Show at The Proposition Gallery Dec 1, 2007-Jan 26, 2008
Coney Island Mermaids Photography show, Coney Island Museum, summer 2007
Rubelad Parties in Manhattan, Queens & Brooklyn 2004, 2005 (FEVA/ Howl Festival), 2006
The Deutsche Bank lobby in Midtown Manhattan 2005 & 2006
See-It FX Gallery in Los Angeles Nov 2004-Sept 2007. This was a simultanious opening to the New York show at Proposition.
Depthography 3D Art Show at The Proposition Gallery Nov 2004-Feb 2005 with special guests Dr Revolt and Jackie Chang.
Proposition Art Gallery featuring R Anthony Munn and Sara Cook 2002. November 15, 2002 to January 1, 2003
Collective Unconscious Gallery One Night Show, featuring performances by The Nils, Ff, Old Rugged Sauce, Sudden Death, members of Ween, projection by Mysterious Tree; 3-D animated large format "rockin good time" lenticulars. A mixture of
graphic art and performance art. Lower East Side February 28, 2003
1993 H. R. Giger New York/Geneva simultaneous opening, including a collaborative effort between Giger and Mr. Munn
Gershwin Hotel, The Scope Event featuring lenticular images by Robert Munn and Sara Cook February, 2000
Neil Martinson's Art Show "Proof in the Pictures" at CBGB's Art Gallery, June 5 through July 19, 2002
Niagara Club One Night Show with R Anthony Munn & Sara Cook. A night of the Antagonist Movement, Ignite Thursdays, with DJ Sergio Vega. October 3, 2002
artwork can be seen at ignitethursdaysdepthographyshowartwork.
The Exploratorium, in San Fransisco consisting of lenticular 4-d art, stereo projection, the transparent woman multimedia dance, music, and stereo projection, etc. 1995
1994 Macy's in Herald Square featured various art pieces by the Depthography Group on 34 street
Georgio Gomelski's Birthday Celebration 3-d projection show featuring Bobs stereo slides and featuring Sara as"the transparent woman" 1992
1994 ongoing exhibit 3d versions of Disney oil paintings on display at the Disney Store in Orlando Florida.
1994 animating art pieces, Chanel/Andy Warhol silkscreens exhibited in Macy's as part of the International Flower show
1995 The Exploratorium, in San Fransisco consisting of lenticular 4-d art, stereo projection, "The Transparent Woman"
1997 Smithsonian featuring El Nino as part of their permanent installation
1998 through present Depthography has had 3d animating versions of Maurice Sendak characters on display in Japan as part of Sony's Odiaba amusement park
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