Elise Coker
"The Laughing Place"
18" x 24"
Acrylic on canvas
Elise Coker is a visual artist and documentary filmmaker living and working in New York City. Her paintings explore the complex relationship between human industry and the natural world, focusing on how infrastructure, technology, and conflict leave lasting imprints on the environment. Through striking contrasts—brutality intertwined with moments of beauty and transcendence—her work invites viewers to consider the layered impact of human activity on the landscape.
Coker’s visual practice is deeply influenced by her documentary filmmaking. The environments she documents often serve as direct inspiration for her paintings, with many pieces incorporating imagery drawn from her own video footage. This dynamic interplay between film and paint allows her to explore both narrative and abstraction, grounding her art in lived experience while inviting deeper reflection on the world we shape and inhabit.
Coker's "The Laughing Place" for REVIVAL is the continuation of a staggered series of works that has been built over the past decade of theme park infrastructure. "The Laughing Place" is of Disneyland's parking structures.
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