MICHAEL COOPER (1949–2010)

Artnet reports that Michael Cooper, an artist known for collages made from photographs and all manner of printed ephemera, including stickers, bus tickets and candy wrappers, died at home on January 23, 2010. He was sixty years old. Cooper had his first solo show of found-object collages at OK Harris Gallery in SoHo in 1976, and more recently exhibited with Pavel Zoubok Gallery in Chelsea, New York.