Helen Maurene Cooper’s photographs focus on fractured storytelling traditions that have resulted from pop culture, which has ultimately distorted location, subjects, and detail. Helen’s other projects explore the geographical, cultural, and socio-political influence on the aesthetics of Chicago nail art.
Helen Maurene Cooper has studied at Middlebury College, the West African Research Center WARK in Dakar, the Goethe Institute in Berlin, Bard College where she received her BA, and School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she received her MFA.
