"Now that I’m by myself," she says, "I'm not by myself, which is good"
Curated by Rachel Cook
Sept. 11 – Oct. 24, 2009;
Opening Reception Friday, Sept. 11, 2009, 6 – 8pm
DiverseWorks Main Gallery

 Now That I'm by Myself… groups together works that speak to a creative self- reflexive act. Independent curator Rachel Cook brings together Brian Bress, Wynne Greenwood, Laurel Nakadate and Yuki Okumura, all of which take isolated private experiences from within studio, within the empty landscape, within the feeling behind the gut, within the fantasy of an alien inside your head, and bring them into the public realm through video, photography, sculptural cutouts, and even drawings. Beginning with the idea of how each artists decides to reveal or question the self in the work and how each artist pushes the boundaries of intimacy in their work; the show seeks to expand notions of the personal, the performative, the character, aloneness, and not-aloneness while providing insight into more universal truths and collective realities.

Rachel Cook is an independent curator, artist, and writer. Cook received her BFA from San Francisco Art Institute where she spent a year at Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. She has independently curated numerous exhibitions around TX including, at DiverseWorks, both a 12 Minutes Max and a project space exhibition of the artist Will Rogan: MUM, Sincerity at Finesilver Gallery in San Antonio, On Language at Sonja Roesch Gallery in Houston, Video/Performance at Okay Mountain in Austin, Cherry Picked at Wichita Falls Museum of Art, and most recently I am not so different at Art Palace's project space in Austin, TX.

Check out Noah Simblist's review of "Now That I'm By Myself..." in Art Lies Magazine.

Listen to Rachel Cook on KUHF's The Front Row .

Read Kelly Klaasmeyer's review of "Now That I'm By Myself..." in the Houston Press.

Check out Nancy Wozny's interview with Rachel Cook on 29-95.com.