Jack Cocker – One to Watch

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It’s always a pleasure to run across a young artist who clearly is on track to widespread notice. I submit that’s the case with Jack Cocker, who enters his 4th year in a BFA program at Western University this fall but has already been on exhibition half a dozen times – including this solo show at Michael Gibson Gallery in London, Ontario through July 29. (NOTE: This post is from 2017 and Jack Cocker’s prospects are still rising – check him out at Michael Gibson Gallery, here. )

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Have a look at more of Cocker’s figurative and landscape paintings on his artist page at Michael Gibson Gallery (here).

Image at top of post: Jack Cocker “Haley and Trees”, Oil on Canvas, 2023, 96 x 68 in. Courtesy Michael Gibson Gallery

Michael Gibson Gallery main site, here. On Twitter, here. On Facebook, here. On Instagram, here.

If you’re a fan of this country’s art, as I am, you should know about the Gibson Gallery, which carries the work of numerous well known Canadian artists, including one of my personal favourites, the late Greg Curnoe. I grew up in London at the time of the city’s artistic renaissance, a movement led by Curnoe, Tony Urquhart, Kim Ondaatje and Jack Chambers, all of whom became much more widely celebrated than their regional beginnings.

Greg Curnoe: A rare glimpse into his early works