Sculptor finds art in everything

Wells College will host the return of a former area artist to central New York when James A. Cook shows his mixed media work in the String Room Gallery at Wells College, Aurora. Wednesday evening, Wells faculty, students and the public will join Cook to commemorate the opening of the exhibit with a reception.

Cook, a former professor at Cornell, currently lives in Tucson, Ariz., where he serves as the chair of the 3D Division of the University of Arizona's College of Fine Arts. His art combines video art with sculpture that most often involves found objects.

“I enjoy that relationship with the moving image in that static context, together it generates a different charge,” Cook said.