Carol Coogan

+ UAG Member + Member Since: November 18th, 2006 + Contact this member: + Page Last Updated: April 20th, 2008 + Personal Site: www.cafepress.com/natureartspirit + Similar Artists: Curtis Canham, Robyn Diaz, Janet Dwyer Stutzman, Amelia Fallon, Mary Feeley, Susan Handy, Barbara Klemz, Elizabeth Maloney, Milton McPherson, Henry C. Meier, AWS, Kelly Naylor, Sarah Petrucci, Amanda Tomasikiewicz, Michael Weidrich

Artist Bio +

Carol Coogan is an artist, illustrator, graphic designer and writer. She is also the creator of the "Backyard Naturalist," a weekly newspaper column for the Times Union of the Capital District, NY, and the "St. Agnes Sketchbook," a bi-weekly art feature for the Evangelist newspaper.

Some clients include: Harcourt Brace, Crane & Co, Pangaia Magazine, Llewellyn Worldwide, Gentle Wind Music, Sunstone Press and Chelsea Green.

"I have an intense urge to create and express myself. It is a part of me, like breathing air. My artistic styles range from realistic to conceptual to abstract to experimental. I work in traditional mediums such as pen & ink, watercolor/acrylic, charcoal, marker, mixed media and collage, as well as digital media created with Illustrator and PhotoShop."

"I am interested in, and inspired by: nature and the environment; metaphor and symbol; spiritual, cultural and social justice issues; and the idea that everything is interconnected. I liken my art to visual poetry; an attempt to express or embody an idea which otherwise could not be articulated with words alone."

Books illustrated:

"Create a Yoga Practice For Kids" (Sunstone 2006)

"Yoga for Teens" (Sunstone 2008)

"2008 Magical Almanac" (Llewellyn Worldwide)

"2009 Magical Almanac" (Llewellyn Worldwide)

"Way of Water" (Chelsea Green 2007)

A compilation of the first year of Carol's Times Union column, the "Backyard Naturalist" is now available at the Book House in Stuyvesant Plaza, Albany NY, Market Street Books, Troy NY, the Bookloft, Great Barrington MA, Honest Weight Co-op in Albany, NY, and at the Pine Bush Nature Preserve Discovery Center in Guilderland, NY.

RECENT NEWS!!!!

April 17 2008 through September 2008 "Common Loon" (pen & ink) accepted into "Focus on Nature X : Natural History Illustration Exhibition" New York State Museum, Albany, NY

• Inner Visions X: TREES
  Visions Gallery, Albany, NY, January through February 2008
  Members Show 2 Pieces
• Abstract Paintings by Carol Coogan
  Slow Jed's, Averill Park, NY, August/September 2007
  Solo Show
• 6X6: 6 works each by 6 artists of Visions Gallery - Albany Pastoral Center, Albany, NY
  July 6- August 31, 2007., "Grief, Transition & Hope"
  Abstract Expressionist Paintings, Acrylics.
• Black & White Show
  UAG Gallery, 247 Lark Street, Albany NY 12210. July 6- July 27, 2007., Group Show 2 Sci-Fi Pieces, Pen & Ink.
• Book signing: Gaia Girls "Way of Water,"
  Albany Pine Hills Library June 23, 2007, Author Lee Welles and illustrator Carol Coogan.
• Small Works Show
  Upstate Artists Guild Gallery, Albany NY, December 1 through December 22, 2006
  Group Show 5 Mandala Pieces, Mixed Media
• Unfinished Theory
  SUNY, Albany, NY, October 30 through November 25, 2006
  Group Show 1 Mandala Piece, Mixed Media
• Inner Vision
  Visions Gallery, Albany, NY, May through June 2006
  Members Show 2 Pieces
• Upstate 88
  Spectrum Theater, Albany, NY, March 15 through April 26 2006
  Upstate 88 Members Show 2 Pieces
• Works by Carol Coogan
  Spectrum Theater, Albany, NY, February 26 through March 15 2006
  Solo Show
• Bird Spirit
  Visions Gallery, Albany, NY, January 7 through February 25, 2005
  Solo Show
• Double Vision
  Visions Gallery, Albany, NY, May through June 2004
  Members Show - 2 Pieces

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