Transference
MARK COBRIN - aka doop
Transference 7, 2013
Cobrin, a recording engineer and musician, has decades of experience working with a wide range of analog audio recording technologies. While much of this equipment is now obsolete, it retains a distinct beauty—as artifacts of a bygone era.
The digital tools used to create these images share space on the same computer as Cobrin’s digital audio recording programs. For him, sound has a visual dimension, and these devices serve as vessels for those forms. Through photography, Cobrin reconstructs these objects to reveal their shape and presence, using color to make a powerful statement about their obsolescence and decay. The colors interact like musical notes—resonating with one another—and, like compositions, the images evoke multiple layers of meaning.
These objects, once responsible for capturing or creating sound, now sit in silence. They serve as poignant reminders of change, much like abandoned stone buildings that slowly deteriorate and become enveloped by nature. Yet in Cobrin’s work, these relics take on new life—as sites of memory, symbolism, transference, and unexpected beauty.
Mark Cobrin a.k.a doop is an artist, musician and recording engineer working in New York City.
This Grady Alexis Gallery exhibition is supported in partnership with the NYC Parks Department as well as through public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, with the City Council. Additional funding comes from the Jacob and Ruth Epstein Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts and individual donations.
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El Taller Latino Americano (aka The Latin American Workshop, Inc) is 501(c)(3) community-based institution in New York City.
Since 1979, El Taller has been an open space for expression and dialogue inspired by the belief that creativity dispels fear and mistrust among communities.