Jacksonville Public Library
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Teresa Cook

AT THE JACKSONVILLE MAIN LIBRARY
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303 N LAURA ST . JACKSONVILLE, FL 32202
3rd Floor Gallery
Bio / Artist Statement
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Teresa Cook was born and raised in Jacksonville, Florida. She is a self-taught Abstract Architectural Watercolor artist and has been painting watercolor for 13 years. She obtained her BFA in Painting, Drawing, and Printmaking from the University of North Florida in 2012. She has a love of architecture, landscapes, and buildings, and obtained an associate’s degree in Computer Drafting and Design from ITT Tech in 2007.
She also creates mini watercolor abstractions using multiple materials, such as pastel, gold leaf, and more. Each of her watercolor and ink paintings is created on smooth paper called “yupo” and is meant to capture a moment in time without the interruption of people. You will not see much human interaction in her art, unless it is in her portraiture, like "James Baldwin Smoking".
Over the last 10 years, she has traveled to various countries and around her native city. She recently traveled to Amsterdam for the 2019
 Urban Sketchers Symposium (USK Symposium) and then to Puerto Rico in 2021. She recently displayed her art at the Ritz Theatre, “See Jacksonville: Past and Present,” the Cummer Museum, “Women’s Rights Movement,” and at the Turner Arts Center in Valdosta, Georgia, “See Jacksonville X Valdosta.”
She is an Art Instructor with Duval County Schools, the Cathedral Arts Project, and local places in Jacksonville, and her workshops are currently held at MOCA, Cultivate, the First Coast Cultural Center, Zoom, and privately in her “Back Porch Studio”. You can also catch her at the Riverside Arts Market with her other business, “MINIS in my MINI,” her tiny art in the back of her white MINI Cooper.
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This exhibit is finished. Contact the gallery to see if a painting is still available.