An artist living and working in Atlanta

Born and raised in Savannah, Ga., Cooper received her BFA in painting with a minor in drawing from The University of Alabama in 2022. You can see Cooper’s art at Guardian Studios in Atlanta where she has been showing since 2022.

Cooper grew up surrounded by creative people. Her mother was an artist, her father, an architect and builder. Sketching houses with dad and doing art projects with mom were among her first memories. But color was mesmerizing. She remembers refusing to wear the same-colored shoes on both feet. Severe dyslexia made school challenging, but art class was an early and continuous love.

That struggle, and the resulting feelings of not being in control, drew Cooper to creating a distinctly controlled environment within her art. “Dyslexia is a curse and a superpower … it helped boost my creativity and pushed me to success,” she says.

Cooper’s dyslexia pushed her to think creatively. Making art helped her problem-solve through a creative mindset and she used that to help her hone alternative tools and ways for her to learn at the same level as everyone else.

Cooper is constantly experimenting with color theory to create different color reactions and movement within her controlled environments depicted in her work.