Amber Cobb

Amber Cobb is an American artist living and working in Denver, Colorado. Cobb received her M.F.A. in Sculpture from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2011.

Since then, her work has been exhibited in institutions both nationally and internationally and featured in. featured in the Cambridge Scholars Publishing, The New York Times, Frieze, and Sculpture Magazine. Selected exhibitions include Pallatable Relations at Hilario Galgura, Mexico City, MX, The Dreamers Dilemma at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art Boulder, CO, Turn the Page at Daniela Elbahara Galeria, Mexico City, MX, Negotiating Spaces at David B. Smith Gallery, Denver, CO and Breakthroughs at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver, CO.

Amber Cobb is drawn to the intricate contradictions within human nature. Starting with the body as a point of departure, she explores the physical and psychological responses these conflicts evoke.

Sculptures and paintings composed using materials and objects intricately woven into our daily lives examine the primal and sensual nature of sexuality. Mattresses and furniture stripped of their original function reemerge as new forms.

The materials she uses have an undeniable and unapologetic feminine touch, but they do not align with traditional norms associated with the domestic. Here, the sexualized body has extended to consumption.

Layered with thick coatings of synthetic materials, visceral textures drip over surfaces that are, at once, grotesque and decorative; notions of abjection and attraction are challenged within the form itself and are a product of the subconscious.