72″x52″; acrylic and textile collage on canvas; 2024/2026. Courtesy of the artist.
COLLAGE ON VIEW
Mike Cockrill: Falling In Place
at Mosaic Artspace in Long Island City, New York, USA
5 January-20 February 2026
Using a multi-media collage approach, Mike Cockrill has launched his paintings into new realms. Combining drawing, painting, cut-up shirts, and repurposed collage fragments pulled from earlier canvases, Cockrill’s paintings reflect his evolving interests in Rococo painting, mid-century suburbia, military jets, and ghostly figures. Eleven new paintings with several new subjects address Cockrill’s concerns with a world out of balance. “Deconstructed Fragonards” feature rosy-cheeked damsels tilting on backgrounds as layered as shredded subway posters. Suburban landscapes are eerily devoid of life. Military aircraft disintegrate after ejecting small missiles. Gray figures barely emerge from a fog.
48″x35″; acrylic and fabric collage on canvas; 2025. Courtesy of the artist.
Mike Cockrill has been making conceptually engaged, socially challenging work since he began showing in Brooklyn and the East Village in the early 1980s. He has lived and worked in Brooklyn, New York, since 1979.
(text adapted from material provided by the artist)
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in the Andromeda building
49-28 31st Place
Long Island City, New York 11101 USA
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