Mark G. Cooley was a guest lecturer at the college recently, and he was able to show some of the pieces that he had been working on recently and his background as an artist.
Most of his pieces were against the capitalist nature of the US: from the wat to rampant consumerism. In his collaboration with another srtist, they took on the atrocities of bottled water companies hold on pocket books by selling tap water for 1000 times more than before. Another one of his pieces at a Chicago gallery contained glass cases with three peices of Sara Lee cheesecake and gloves allowing the viewer to touch the cheesecake if they wish. Sara Lee was a sponsor of that event.
Another project was one called White Flag which was drawing from Jasper Johns'Flags. These flags though had to do more with a political agenda rather than a showing the what Johns pictured in a dream.
A lot of his worked was surrounding events that went with the war, and showed disdain for thse events.
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