EXHIBITION: Larry W. Cook
Daytona
LARRY W. COOK
Friday, March 6, 2026 – Saturday, April 18, 2026
COLLECTOR’S DINNER | Thursday, March 5
FIRST FRIDAY ART WALK | Friday, March 6, 5-8pm
LARRY W. COOK. Touch of Class, 2025. Mixed media, rhinestones, acrylic paint on canvas print, 59 x 53 inches. Unique.
Candela presents two exhibitions taking special care toward the photographic subject: D.C.-based Larry Cook's Daytona features grand, shimmering club-goers shrouded rhinestone, and Seattle artist Natalie Krick's she sees, pictured as she pictures uses fragmentation to disrupt the overly sexualized image of Marilyn Monroe as a celebrity icon.
Daytona includes works from Larry Cook’s most recent mixed media series, in which the artist has elevated vernacular club imagery into grand artworks using rhinestones and glitter. His subjects shimmer against backdrops with imagery representing aspirational luxuries, nodding to Black expression, and, as Cook states, “representing the transformation of self within the ephemeral space of club culture.”
Larry W. Cook is an interdisciplinary artist and archivist working across photography, video, and mixed media. Cook received his MFA from George Washington University. Cook has exhibited his work nationally at the Brooklyn Museum, Baltimore Museum of Art, Mississippi Museum of Art, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, MoMA PS1, Walters Art Museum, National Portrait Gallery, and internationally at Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt in Germany and Efie Gallery in Dubai. His work is in the public collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Harvard Art Museums, Baltimore Museum of Art, Light Work, and other institutions. Cook’s work has been published in the New York Times, Forbes, Frieze Magazine, NPR, Ebony Magazine, and Hyperallergic. Cook is a recipient of the 2024 Gordon Parks Fellowship. He is an Associate Professor at Howard University.
