ARTIST / WHO ART YOU
teke cocina
Printmaking and artists’ books
Through iterative prints and books, teke cocina explores perception, identity and intimacy at the meeting point of religious imagery and popular culture.
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Practice & background
New York-based interdisciplinary artist teke cocina specializes in printmaking and artists’ books. Repeated imagery develops through series, making print a means of comparison, transformation and reconsideration.
Sources range from biblical heroes and saints to television, video games, comics and cartoons. Queer reinterpretations examine unstable boundaries between perception and illusion, and between affection, intimacy and violence.
cocina holds a BFA from the University at Buffalo and an MFA from SUNY Purchase. His experience includes printshop and instructional work at Parsons, guest teaching at Lower East Side Printshop and participation in the New York Queer Zine Fair.
Looking at the work
Screenprinting and book forms reassemble cultural imagery, using repetition and variation to examine identity and the viewer’s position.
Works & practice
Pinkwashing, 2024; screenprint, 19 × 22 inches.
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