Studio 201

2011-12-28T17:15:00.000-06:00

Flower of Life 2011 David Coggins (brush and ink on paper, 22x30")

2011-08-09T12:58:00.006-05:00

Big Willow 2010 (brush and ink on layered paper, 120"x96")

Big Willow by David Coggins is on view until from July 1 until September 19, 2011 at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (Target Wing Atrium).

2011-08-05T22:00:00.001-05:00

Around the Blue
Caribbean Watercolors by David Coggins
(Released 1 July 2011 by Cobalt Press)

2011-08-03T22:15:00.003-05:00

Caribbean 7 2011 (watercolor on paper, 4 3/4" x 6")

From Around the Blue by David Coggins (Cobalt Press 2011)

2011-08-03T13:49:00.003-05:00

Caribbean 17 2011 (watercolor on paper, 4 3/4" x 6")
From Around the Blue by David Coggins (Cobalt Press 2011)

2011-08-01T21:00:00.000-05:00

Yoga
Drawing Quiet by David Coggins
(Released 1 July 2011 by Cobalt Press)

2011-07-30T14:45:00.004-05:00

Yoga 24 2010 (ink on paper, 5 1/2" x 8 1/2")

From Yoga by David Coggins (Cobalt Press 2011).

Yoga 30 2010 (ink on paper, 5 1/2" x 8 1/2")

From Yoga by David Coggins (Cobalt Press 2011).

2011-05-05T12:00:00.000-05:00

"Black Willow 9" 2011 (Archival digital print, 28x16")

2011-05-05T11:30:00.002-05:00

"Black Willow 12" 2011 (Archival digital print, 28x16")

2011-05-04T23:24:00.001-05:00

Books 1994 (pastel on paper, 40 x 29")

2010-11-18T10:58:00.017-06:00

Robert Carolina's Daybooks

(Cobalt Press 2010)

 10 years 8 books 1700 pages of collage

Individual books (limited edition 50 copies each book): $30

Boxed set (limited edition 35): $300

Available: Cobalt Press, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Common Good Books, St. Paul, Partners & Spade, New York 

A boxed set of the Daybooks has been acquired by the Minneapolis Institute of Arts for its permanent collection.

Created between 2000 and 2010, each of the eight Daybooks is named after the rich color of its cover, The Blue, The Green, The Orange, etc. The collages are made from a vast array of everyday material ranging from newspapers, photographs, and drawings to wasp's nests, pencil shavings, and shirt pockets. The endless combinations of text and imagery reflect on age-old themes: art, sport, food, nature, travel, love, war, home, family. The Daybooks are funny, poetic, beautiful, and surprising. They are a lot like life, one moment lyrical, the next moment strange. 

Each Daybook also exists as a fifteen-foot long scroll printed on Japanese paper. 

Robert Carolina is an itinerant artist and writer. An unfounded rumor has it that he and David Coggins walk the same dog.

2010-11-04T13:22:00.006-05:00

Robert Carolina's Daybooks (Boxed Sets Edition 35 Cobalt Press 2010)

2010-09-23T11:45:00.005-05:00

Daybooks Boxed Set (Cobalt Press 2010)

2010-09-23T11:40:00.001-05:00

Daybooks Boxed Set (Cobalt Press 2010)

2010-09-06T14:34:00.001-05:00

The Red Daybook 2010 (digital print diptych left, 43 x 90")
The Red Daybook 2010 (digital print diptych right, 43 x 90")

2010-09-04T13:26:00.000-05:00

The American Dream 7 x 10" Collage from The Red Daybook by Robert Carolina (Cobalt Press 2010 Edited by David Coggins)

2010-09-04T13:17:00.000-05:00

The Idea 7 x 10" Collage from The Brown Daybook by Robert Carolina (Cobalt Press 2010 Edited by David Coggins)

2010-09-03T23:45:00.002-05:00

Idiosyncratic 7 x 10" Collage from The Green Daybook by Robert Carolina (Cobalt Press 2010 Edited by David Coggins)

2010-09-01T14:24:00.002-05:00

Desolate Exuberance 7 x 10" Collage from The Orange Daybook by Robert Carolina (Cobalt Press 2010 Edited by David Coggins)

She Started Crying 7 x 10" Collage from The Orange Daybook by Robert Carolina (Cobalt Press 2010 Edited by David Coggins)

They Want What They Want 7 x 10" Collage from The Orange Daybook by Robert Carolina (Cobalt Press 2010 Edited by David Coggins)

2010-08-31T21:27:00.000-05:00

Please 7 x 10 " Collage from The Brown Daybook (Cobalt Press 2010 Edited by David Coggins)

2010-08-30T11:17:00.001-05:00

The Orange Daybook 2010 (digital print detail, 43 x 39")

The Orange Daybook 2010 (digital print detail, 43 x 39")

2010-08-29T20:33:00.001-05:00

Umbrella with Table and Chair 2010 (ink on paper, 9 x 6")

2010-08-29T20:21:00.004-05:00

Still Life (Vegetables) 2010 (ink on paper, 6 x 9")

2010-08-29T20:13:00.005-05:00

Still Life ("Books v. cigarettes") 2010 from Brown: A Country Portrait (ink on paper, 9 x 6")

2010-02-05T12:23:00.000-06:00

Cyclist 2010 (Archival pigment print, 42 x 29")

2010-02-05T12:00:00.000-06:00

Diver 2010 (Archival pigment print, 42 x 27")

Sprinter 2010 (Archival pigment print, 42 x 24")

Equestrian 2010 (Archival pigment print, 42 x 38")

2009-09-12T22:36:00.005-05:00

Birds of Pine Lake (Cobalt Press 2009) by David Coggins.

70 pages. Illustrated. Hardcover.

This birthday edition of 60 copies is a collection of drawings in watercolor and ink of birds that live in the woods and fields around the artist's north woods cabin.

2009-09-12T21:51:00.002-05:00

Kingfisher from Birds of Pine Lake (Cobalt Press 2009) David Coggins.

2009-09-12T21:46:00.004-05:00

Red-bellied Woodpecker from Birds of Pine Lake.

2009-09-12T21:21:00.005-05:00

Canoe from Brown: A Country Portrait 2009 (ink on paper)

David Coggins.

2009-09-12T20:25:00.003-05:00

Orchard from Brown: A Country Portrait 2009 (ink on paper).

2009-04-16T21:01:00.027-05:00

Eden is a limited edition book of 90 collages by David Coggins. The artist finds beauty and solace in the Edenesque gardens and woods of the longtime family country home. A compliment to The Nostalgic Heart, his award-winning travel book about cities, Eden is about connection to place and nature, the camaraderie of family and friends, and the solitude of the studio. Cobalt Press 2008. 110 pages. $40.

Eden Summer Collages and The Nostalgic Heart by David Coggins are available from Cobalt Press and at many bookstores, shops, and museums in the U.S. and Paris. They are also available at www.amazon.com.

"Eden is a poetic look at the passage of time, sometimes bright, sometimes melancholy. It is beautiful, even seductive, from its birch bark endpapers to the visually compelling collages and snippets of often provocative words.... A hardbound, slender tome with a robin's egg blue cover backgrounding an image of a languid water lily, the book confirms Thoreau's statement, "How much virtue there is in simply seeing."

Mason Riddle, "An Eden of One's Own," mnartists.org

"David Coggins's stunning collages catch and hold a season. These evocative images remind us that the substance of memory is itself fleeting, yet all around us wherever we look. And in looking with care, as Coggins has in this splendid book, he helps us to begin to see."

William Souder, author of Under a Wild Sky

"A slim book of summer days, Eden is a collection of visual poems by Minneapolis artist, David Coggins, whose subject is nature seen through a sultry haze of sentiment and sensibility. Each page reproduces a collage of dried things -- leaves, blossoms, grasses -- artfully arranged with bits of Oriental paper, antique engravings, postcards, and other ephemera. Haiku-like notes (apparently recorded on an old typewriter bereft of capital letters) recall date, place, mood. It's a sweet book."

Mary Abbe, Minneapolis Star Tribune

2008-10-20T23:55:00.005-05:00

The Eden Collages at Bockley Gallery, Minneapolis (2008).

2008-10-20T23:03:00.000-05:00

The Eden Collages at Bockley Gallery, Minneapolis.

2008-10-19T23:58:00.011-05:00

The Eden Collages and Eden at intoto, Minneapolis (2008).

2008-09-01T16:37:00.001-05:00

Faded Collage from Eden (Cobalt Press 2008)

2008-09-01T15:22:00.000-05:00

Gin and Tonic Collage from Eden (Cobalt Press 2008)

2008-09-01T15:13:00.001-05:00

Trillium Collage from Eden (Cobalt Press 2008)

2008-08-30T15:55:00.016-05:00

Cobalt Press 2006. 265 pages. Illustrated. $50.

2007 Independent Publishers Book Award.

Available at Cobalt Press or david@davidcoggins.com

A chronicle of the artist's travels to cities around the world, this book combines encounters with people he met -- from artists and journalists to cooks and opera singers -- with ruminations about place and restlessness and the changing nature of cities. Containing over 90 photographs and drawings, The Nostalgic Heart is a celebration of urban life and the beauty and humanity of "the old square."

"David Coggins shares a world of insight in his beautiful travel book -- an unsentimental diary of poignant vignettes and artfully tinted photos. He is a romantic but a wise and insightful one who comes to terms with distance, time, and inevitable loss."

Mary Abbe, Minneapolis Star Tribune

"A haunting and evocative voyage of discovery full of the precise observations of an artist's eye."

William Boyd, author of Any Human Heart and Restless

"The Nostalgic Heart is my kind of book. Compelling to read, beautiful to hold in the hand and observe with the eye, and its emotional scent lasts long after it is left on the bedside table."

Mason Riddle, Thinking Souls, mnartists.org

2008-07-25T15:53:00.003-05:00

Palm 2008 India ink on tracing paper (collaged), 48" x 36"

2008-07-13T00:08:00.004-05:00

Willow 2007 India ink on tracing paper (collaged), 48" x 36"

2008-07-12T23:21:00.006-05:00

Set for The Deception 2007

Theatre de la Jeune Lune, La Jolla Playhouse

Best Set Design Twin Cities Theater 2007

Minneapolis Star Tribune

Chosen for the 2011 Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space

2008-07-12T16:18:00.002-05:00

Set for The Deception 2007

Theatre de la Jeune Lune, La Jolla Playhouse

2008-07-10T21:34:00.001-05:00

Coral 2005 Watercolor, colored pencil, and graphite on Arches paper, 30" x 22"

2008-07-09T00:30:00.005-05:00

Valley 1989 Acrylic on paper, 42" x 68" (private collection)