Mark Cooper

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Mark Cooper (artist)

Mark Cooper (born 1950, Evansville, IN) is an American multimedia artist based in Boston, Massachusetts working mostly in ceramics and sculptural installation as well as painting. He is best known for his large scale biomorphic fiberglass sculptures.

Education

Cooper received his Bachelor of Science at Indiana University in 1972, and his Masters of Fine Arts, from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston at Tufts University in 1980, Boston, MA.

Career & Work

Cooper currently teaches ceramics at Boston College and is also a Regular Faculty at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA.

His paintings and sculptures made with fiberglass pieces, layered with rice paper, paint, silk-screens, and varying images and patterns, "explore dualities of culture and meaning." The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston College Museum, Capital Children's Museum in Washington, DC, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, and the Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York, NY. He has received various public art commissions and grants from the Boston Medical Center, an Artist Fellowship Grant through the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and a Gund Travel Grant (Bali), and a special commission for the new Comme des Garçon store in New York City.

Mark Cooper (academic)

Mark Cooper is a senior research fellow for economic analysis at the Institute for Energy and the Environment at the Vermont Law School, and a frequent nuclear power industry commentator. Cooper holds a PhD from Yale University and is a former Yale University and Fulbright Fellow. He has provided expert testimony in over 250 cases for public interest clients before state and federal agencies, courts, and legislators in many jurisdictions in the U.S. and Canada. Cooper has published many books and articles on energy, telecommunications and high technology industries.

Cooper's 2011 report, Nuclear Safety and Nuclear Economics, says that past nuclear disasters, such as the 1979 Three Mile Island accident, have tended to "greatly raise regulatory barriers and have also severely multiplied the cost of reactor construction". After Three Mile Island, the report said, the cost of nuclear power plant construction doubled in most cases and trebled or quadrupled in some rare circumstances. He says that presently we are witnessing not a nuclear renaissance but a collapse in expectations for new nuclear reactor construction.