Untitled (Character On Colored Rectangles Background) by Miss Cookie Norton

Miss Cookie Norton has worked at the ECF Art Centers since 1973, first starting at our ECF Art Center MLK studio (formerly located on Martin Luther Kind Jr. Blvd. in South LA) and now working at our Westside studio. Miss Cookie’s paintings and drawings combine geometric abstraction with figurative illustration, their work often calls to mind the colorful, intricate, and classic aesthetic of stained glass. Prominent subjects in their body of work include people, militaristic symbols, industrial machinery and architecture. By combining the aforementioned subjects with kaleidoscopically colorful patterns, Miss Cookie creates paintings that are striking not only for their aesthetic quality but also for the way in which these austere and symbolically loaded subjects are transformed by their proximity to the rainbow. Their practice in the studio is almost equally divided between painting and researching historic images and archives.