Book cover with dynamic black and red brushstrokes against a white background, reminiscent of Abstract Expressionism, displaying the title “Johnnie Cooper: Sunset Strip” in bold white uppercase letters. Published by Black Dog Online.
Left page displays a black-and-white photograph of an abstract wooden sculpture in the style of Abstract Expressionism; right page presents the title “Chapter 1 Regional Cosmopolitan (1972–1981)” and introductory text set against a pink background, capturing the dynamic spirit explored in Johnnie Cooper: Sunset Strip by Black Dog Online.
An open book—Johnnie Cooper: Sunset Strip by Black Dog Online—displays an abstract painting with bold brushstrokes in black, white, yellow, blue, and pink arranged in geometric, overlapping patterns across both pages, capturing the Abstract Expressionist style of Cooper’s vibrant Sunset Strip series.
Two abstract paintings from “Johnnie Cooper: Sunset Strip” by Black Dog Online are shown in a book: the left features blue and black vertical lines with a yellow curve, while the right displays black lines on white with a red top and red curve—capturing Johnnie Cooper’s vibrant, Abstract Expressionist style inspired by the energy of the Sunset Strip.

Johnnie Cooper: Sunset Strip

Peter Murray, Tom Hastings (Contributors)

Hardback, 28 × 23 cm | 9 × 11 in, 240 pages

ISBN 978-1-912165-09-4

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Johnnie Cooper: Sunset Strip is the first monograph of the British artist’s work, joining a curatorial initiative over recent decades to undertake important re-evaluations of the careers of important twentieth- and twenty-first-century artists such as Tess Jaray, William Turnbull and Cuban-born American Minimalist artist Carmen Herrera.

Johnnie Cooper has, for the past half-century, devoted himself to a tireless investigation into the nature and potential of painting in his rural Worcestershire studio, constantly exploring new principles and processes.

This book provides an opportunity to explore the development of Cooper’s practice, from the figurative totems sculpted in his student days to the rich Abstract Expressionist works of the 1980s and the gestural Minimalist works on paper of the past decade. Johnnie Cooper: Sunset Strip charts the journey of the artist's signature investigations into colour, line and form.