Since the mid 1990s, Diana Cooper has consistently experimented with the practice of drawing, venturing beyond its boundaries to create wildly inventive works on paper, on canvas, on the wall, off the wall and in space.

Since embracing felt-tipped markers as a primary medium early on in her career, Cooper has developed a unique, labor intensive and time consuming process using an eclectic array of materials including pen, pencil, paper, canvas, felt, plastics, foam core, push pins, Velcro, pipe cleaners, and even pom-pons.

With an intensity of repetition and multiplication, Cooper takes doodling and geometric abstraction to the extreme, unabashedly transforming line and form into exuberant, semi-abstract works. In her art, mark making is intensive, and thousands of elements are drawn, cut, assembled and attached to paper, canvas, the wall, spiraling up to the ceiling or out onto the gallery floor. The results are visually rich and densely layered works of art that represent imaginary systems and complex networks.

Alluding to the underlying infrastructures and interconnecting channels of contemporary life, Cooper's creations reference electrical or digital conduits, communication and transportation systems, and computer circuit boards among other possibilities. These mesmerizing works of art speak to our technology driven ecosystem, to our culture of excess and information overload. They also call attention to the tenuous edge between order, disorder and chaos in our inextricably networked world.

Of her work, Cooper muses, "I am interested in how you can start with a logical system and through sheer repetition and excess create something that unravels and stops making sense. In my work, systems overlap, compete and contradict one another. I want to expose the proximity of order to chaos and show how these two realms bump up against one another.

Digital, biological and medical systems are our life support systems but they can fail us too. In their complexity they become unstable and sometimes quite fragile..."

Diana Cooper has exhibited her work since 1995 in one-person exhibitions at galleries in New York, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Zurich, Switzerland, and at the Center for Drawing in London. She has participated in many group exhibitions in the United States and Europe, including most recently, a group exhibition in 2006 titled Burgeoning Geometries at the Whitney Museum of Art at Altria, in New York City.

In 2003-04, Cooper was a recipient of the prestigious Rome Prize, and an artist-in-residence at the Center for Drawing at the Wimbledon School of Art outside of London. She lives and works in New York City.