Graphic Design,
Illustration & Fine Art.

Michael has over 40 years in fine art and 30 years in medical, commercial and engineering graphic design / illustration, he is currently Creative Director for a corporation in Flemington as well as owner of Cooper Graphics. Beyond print media, his experience includes web site creation, multimedia and animation graphics. He received his BFA in mixed media from Montclair University and pursued graduate classes in computer graphics at the School of Visual Arts and Pratt Institute in Manhattan.

He does work for universities as well as advertising agencies and small businesses. Michael has illustrated several Lippincott medical review text books, produces cover art for medical journals, creates presentations, and thousands of medical journal figures.

In the area of fine art Michael has shown in numerous shows in the North East winning various awards and has work in private collections. He has apprenticed with internationally recognized sculptor Charles Simonds, working on a large scale piece for the New York Guggenheim Museum and outdoor piece at the Liberty Science Center. He was also on the installation team for the Gates by Christo and Jeanne‑Claude.

Michael had found that computer graphics has influenced and aided his fine art – in a technical sense to plan and make prototypes of ideas for art pieces, and perhaps also in a more subtle way, helping to create a stylized form for his abstract ideas.

Fine and Commercial Art – Working Together.

Graphic Design • Illustration • Web Design • Fine Art • Resume

Outdoor Sculptures

• In Progress private home in Carversville (front of house), Hug, outdoor sculpture, 2019
• Private home in Carversville (backyard), The Game, outdoor sculpture, May 2017.
• New Hope Solebury Library, Earth Piercing, outdoor sculpture, August 2016.
• Commissioned Montclair State University Outdoor Sculpture; installation October 1996
• Ongoing proposals (request information)

Installation Assistance

• The Gates Project, Central Park, NYC, Christo / Jeanne-Claude artwork
• Sculptor assistant to artist Charles Simonds Liberty State Park environmental piece, Bayonne, NJ –1984
• Sculptor assistant to artist Charles Simonds for Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum show New York, NY-1983
• Papermaking assistant to artist Anne Chapman, various projects -1980-1982
• Montclair State University, various indoor and outdoor temporary art installations.

Judging

• College of Saint Elizabeth BFA Show, Morristown, NJ - 2016
• New Hope Arts Sculpture Competition, New Hope, PA –2019

Artworks (sculptures, paintings and drawings) in Shows and Private Collections

• Follow Me Too, juried members show 2018, Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ
• Conception through Completion, one person show 2018, Watchung Art Center, Watchung NJ
• Let’s Primal Dance, Artsbridge Member Show 2018, honorable mention, Stockton, NJ
• Convergence/Divergence-Revisited, juried members show 2017, Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ
• Follow Me, Artsbridge Juried Show 2016, New Hope, PA
• Better Days Ahead, juried members show 2015, Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ
• Counter Balance, Artsbridge juried show 2015, Stockton, NJ
• Banana, Artsbridge member show 2015, Stockton, NJ
• Perfect Wedding, Artsbridge juried show 2014, Stockton, NJ
• A Deconstruction of a Fertility Figure Gone Wild, 5th Annual Juried Show 2014, New Hope Art League, Lambertville, NJ, Abstract Prize
• Digital Art (2x), The Philadelphia Sketch Club's Works on Paper Show 2013, Philadelphia, PA
• Medical Illustrations (2x), The Philadelphia Sketch Club's Phillustration Show 2013, Philadelphia, PA
• Slip-Slide, Phillips Mill 84th Juried Art Exhibition 2013, New Hope, PA
• Splinter and Recreating the Wheel, Sculpture 2013 New Hope Art Center, New Hope, PA
• American Shad, Shadfest 2013, Lambertville, NJ
• Recreating the Wheel, Artsbridge Juried Show 2012, New Hope, PA
• Two Shads, Shadfest 2011, Lambertville, NJ
• Splinter, Artsbridge Member Show 2012, Lambertville, NJ
• In to the Reverse and Shelf Life, New Hope Art League Juried Show 2011, Stockton, NJ
• Mystic Waffle and Canolli on the Beach, Hunterdon Art Museum Juried Members Show 2011, Clinton, NJ
• Fertility Figure Gone Wild, Two Masks and Hello How Are You, Naked in New Hope Juried Show 2011, New Hope, PA
• Peek-A-Boo, New Hope Art League Members Miniature Show 2011, New Hope, PA
• A Deconstruction of a Fertility Figure Gone Wild and Still, Artsbridge Juried Show 2011, New Hope, PA
• The Shad We Had, Shadfest 2011, Lambertville, NJ
• Better Days Ahead, Artsbridge Member Show 2011, Lambertville, NJ
• Convergence/Divergence, New Hope Art League 1st Annual Juried Show 2010, Lambertville, NJ
• A Retro-Perspective based on Giorgio de Chirico’s - The Landscape Painter, Arstbridge 15h Annual Juried Show 2010, Riverrun Gallery, Lambertville, NJ, best in show
• Shelf Life, Hunterdon Museum of Art Juried Members Show 2008, Clinton, NJ
• Two Sfogliatella, Artsbridge at Riverrun Gallery, 13th Annual Juried Show 2008, Lambertville, NJ
• Untitled, Artsbridge at Riverrun Gallery, 13th Annual Juried Show 2007, Lambertville, NJ
• The Elements: Creative Energy, Hunterdon Art Museum 2005, (book art show), Clinton, NJ
• Antique Barn, portfolio print, Phillips Mill 74th Annual Fall Exhibition 2003, New Hope, PA
• Miles of Mules candidate 2003, Delaware and Lehigh Heritage Corridor, PA
• Antique Barn & Farm, Phillips Mill 73rd Annual Fall Exhibition 2002, New Hope, PA
• Better Days Ahead, Phillips Mill 72nd Annual Fall Exhibition 2001, New Hope, PA
• Untitled, Banana Factory’s Self Portrait Juried Exhibition 2001, Bethlehem, PA
• Participated in Banana Factory’s Outdoor Sculpture Competition, 2000, Bethlehem, PA
• Lost Horizon, Phillips Mill 71st Annual Fall Exhibition 2000, New Hope, PA
• Angel, Phillips Mill 70th Annual Fall Exhibition 1999, New Hope, PA
• The Artist Looks at Hunterdon, Hunterdon Art Center Juried Art Show 1999, Clinton, NJ
• The Artist Looks at Hunterdon Hunterdon Art Center Juried Art Show 1997, Clinton, NJ
• Winter Corn, Members Annual Show Hunterdon Art Center Juried Art Show 1997, Clinton, NJ
• Past Time, Phillips Mill 68th Annual Fall Exhibition 1997, New Hope, PA
• The Artist Looks at Hunterdon, Hunterdon Art Center Juried Art Show 1997, Clinton, NJ
• Alumni and Student Permanent Outdoor Sculpture Competition winner 1996, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ
• Winter Corn, Phillips Mill 67th Annual Fall Exhibition 1996, award for Traditional Watercolor in memory of Helen K. McCloskey, New Hope, PA
• The Artist Looks at Hunterdon, Hunterdon Art Center Juried Art Show 1995, Clinton, NJ
• University of Medicine and Dentistry Art Exhibit, 1995 and 1996
• Members Annual Show Hunterdon Art Center Juried Art Show 1995, Clinton, NJ
• Sfogliatella in a Room, Members Annual Show Hunterdon Art Center Juried Art Show 1994, (2nd Place), Clinton, NJ
• Gentlemen Farmer, The Artist Looks at Hunterdon, Hunterdon Art Center Juried Art Show 1991, (Honorable Mention), Clinton, NJ
• Hunterdon Art Center Juried Miniature Art Show 1989, Clinton, NJ
• Annual Traveling Miniature Juried Art Show 1988, City Without Walls, Newark, NJ
• Art of the Northeast 1987, Silvermine Art Center, Silvermine, CT
• International Miniature Art Competition 1987, Toronto, Canada
• West Essex Juried Art Show 1986, (Honorable Mention), Roseland, NJ
• Looking Back, one person BFA project 1986, Gallery I, Montclair State College, Upper Montclair, NJ
• Tip of the Iceberg, student group show 1984, Gallery I, Montclair State College, Upper Montclair, NJ
• Papermaking Invitational Show 1983, College Art Gallery, Montclair State College, Upper Montclair, NJ
• Brooklyn Arts and Cultural Association Miniature Art Competition 1983, Brooklyn, NY
• Papermaking Art, student group show 1982, Gallery II, Montclair State College, Upper Montclair, NJ
• Sculptural Paintings, one person show 1982, Gallery II, Montclair State College, Upper Montclair, NJ
• Hunterdon Arts Center Juried Art Competition 1981, Clinton, NJ
• Glenridge Art Competition 1981, Glenridge, NJ
• Brooklyn Arts and Cultural Association Miniature Art Competition 1981, (Honorable Mention), Brooklyn, NY
• Montclair Students at Westbeth 1980, New York, NY

Fine Art Internships

• The Gates Project, 1995, Central Park, NYC, Christo / Jeanne-Claude artwork, installer.
• Sculptor assistant to artist Charles Simonds for Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum show 1983, New York, NY
• Sculptor assistant to artist Charles Simonds for Liberty State Park environmental pieces 1984, Bayonne, NJ
• Papermaking assistant to artist Anne Chapman, 1980-1982

Computer Art Shows

• Association of Medical Illustrators art show, Philadelphia, PA -1990
• New York Macintosh Users Group computer art show, New York, NY -1991
• Computer Graphics in Science, Chicago, IL -1996
• NY Arts Biennial '97, Vision & NYU, NYC, 1997 (Collaboration)

Journals and Publications (in brief)

• Art in Medicine, Computer Graphics World, December 1990
• Computer Graphic File Formats in Brief, AMI Newsletter, March-April -1991
• Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews: Pharmacology by Dr. Richard Harvey and Dr. Pamella Champe, 1992 and 1996
• Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews: Biochemistry by Dr. Richard Harvey and Dr. Pamella Champe, 1994
• Web-Insight, UMD Connections, 1996
• Web-Insight, UMD Connections, 1996
• Thousands of medical journals and many medical books 1989-Present
• Pharmacology, Tulane University by Dr. Barbara Beckman, 2001
• Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews: Microbiology by Dr. Richard Harvey and Dr. Pamella Champe, 2001
• Molecular Cell, cover art, June 2005

Presentations

• Artsbridge Program, Fine and Commercial Art Working Together - 2015, Stockton NJ
• Sweet Talks, Working as a Commercial and Fine Artist - 2013, Flemington NJ
• Various Marketing Presentations for Altech Corporation, 1997- Present, Flemington NJ
• Several Business Network International (BNI) presentations 2010-2013, Clinton, NJ
• Art in Medicine, Association of Medical Illustrators (AMI) Meeting – 1995, Philadelphia, PA

Employment (in brief)

• Creative Director / Production Manager / Marketing Director, Altech Corporation, Flemington, NJ, 1997-Present
• Principal, Cooper Graphics & Fine Arts (design and illustration), 1990-Present
• Rutgers University Laboratory of Vision Research Piscataway, NJ, consultant, 2000-2015
  Coordinator, Scientific Graphics, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ, 1989-1997
• Instructor Somerset Vocational School, Somerset NJ, 1993-1996
• Technical Illustrator, Singer/Plessey Electronics, Totowa, NJ -1985-1989
• Graphic artist assistant to Julian Hershfeld for U.S. Open projects -1979-1990

Memberships

Artsbridge (board member, webmaster, secretary, press release writer), Grounds for Sculpture, New Hope Art Center, New Hope Art League, Philadelphia Sketch Club and Hunterdon Art Museum.

908.752.7190 | michael@cooper247.com