2025 | ANTHONY DOUGLAS COOPER
A COLOURFUL DOTTED LINE
TORONTO
Jan 16 - Mar 1, 2025

Blouin Division is pleased to present Anthony Douglas Cooper’s a colourful dotted line in the Project Space.

In contrast to recent installations where hundreds of miniature assemblages trace the perimeter of the environment they inhabit, this exhibition highlights a selection of Cooper’s Stacks conceived of as a singular unit. The materials for his sculptures have been sourced over the last 15 years from the streets of Toronto and Montreal in an ongoing passive collecting practice as he moves about the world. He gathers fragments of cylindrical plastic and metal, the original functions and utilities of which are often unclear. Organizing these materials is vital to his approach, as the creation of each sculpture relies on how it interlocks with the subsequent elements to form each unique sculptural assemblage.

Anthony Douglas Cooper is a Toronto-based artist working across sculpture and performance. He is known for his collaborations through vsvsvs and as a founding member of Toronto-based art gallery, the plumb. Cooper’s most recent curatorial projects include the exhibition goodtime, which continued and expanded John Goodwin’s recent curatorial work, and Andrew James Paterson: Never Enough Night, co-curated with Laura Carusi and Kate Whiteway. Recent exhibitions include Tools ‘n’ Shit (2019) at goodwater gallery, Rabbithole Foxhole (2019) at The J Spot, Vision321 (2024) curated by Hearth Garage, at the plumb and Manual Assembly: Fragments of a Whole (2024) at The Goldfarb Gallery.