{"id":5233,"date":"2014-08-06T11:03:32","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T11:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/demo.wpzoom.com\/inspiro\/?post_type=portfolio_item&#038;p=5233"},"modified":"2021-05-04T01:07:58","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T01:07:58","slug":"mikecockrill","status":"publish","type":"portfolio_item","link":"https:\/\/www.artistspotlight.art\/project\/mikecockrill\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Cockrill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mike Cockrill: Artist Spotlight (New York 2014)\" width=\"930\" height=\"523\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tOc_ViegLck?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Mike is a Virginia-born artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He was interviewed in his Brooklyn studio on May 9, 2013. In this in-depth interview, Mike talks about how he emerged as an artist, who he considers his role-models, the state of representational art and its role in the contemporary art saturated market. He also talks about his experience collaborating with Judge Hughes on the White Papers \u2013 a picture book about assassination of JFK to the assassination of John Lennon. His works can be seen at his web site:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mikecockrill.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/mikecockrill.com<\/a>\u00a0About Mike Cockrill has been making conceptually engaged, socially challenging work since he first began showing in the East Village in the early 1980s. Cockrill\u2014who grew up in the suburbs of Washington, DC, in the late 50s and early 60s\u2014has a particular affinity with the pop-culture images of postwar America, and their darker subtexts. A classically trained painter, Cockrill also has the skills to understand an idiom and then deftly twist it, literally and conceptually. He has been doing this from his early cartoons, which are hybrids of suburban cheeriness and Indian-miniature eroticism, to his later paintings that adopt the cloying style of 1950s children\u2019s book illustrations while exposing their undercurrent of sexually charged fantasy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike is a Virginia-born artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He was interviewed in his Brooklyn studio on May 9, 2013. In this in-depth interview, Mike talks about how he emerged as an artist, who he considers his role-models, the state of representational art and its role [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"portfolio":[35],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artistspotlight.art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_item\/5233"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artistspotlight.art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_item"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artistspotlight.art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/portfolio_item"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artistspotlight.art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artistspotlight.art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artistspotlight.art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artistspotlight.art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"portfolio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artistspotlight.art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio?post=5233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}