Cooper Gatzmer (b. 1998 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) lives and works in Minneapolis and received a BFA from the University of Minnesota in 2022. Gatzmer depicts figures using awkward and pressured linework, with impasto and gestural volumes of paint. The color and physical features of his figures are exaggerated and imaginative to reflect unconventional and everyday subjects in the midwestern United States along with American notions of masculinity and loneliness.

Contributions: young woman with eye makeup [Spring 2024]