Tiki Girl 1997
Hand-Signed & Numbered by COOP
22.5 x 35" silkscreen poster print
Mint/Near-Mint Condition - Never Displayed
All silkscreen posters stored in flat file cabinets since 1990s purchase
Chris "COOP" Cooper (b. 1968 Oklahoma) burst onto the scene in the 1990s via fine art silkscreen rock posters of girly art, retro kitsch and dark humor. - 1950's pinup-style women, B-movie monsters, robots, and devil girls
He provided cool art for Soundgarden, Nirvana, Rev. Horton Heat, Foo Fighters, Lords of Acid, and many more. From that base, he launched a fine-art career that includes painting, printmaking, and more recently, pin-up photography.
His work has been collected in books including 2001’s Devil’s Advocate: The Art of Coop and 2004’s The Big Fat One. Idle Hands, published in 2012 by Baby Tattoo Books, focuses on his fine art from 2001 to 2012.