Spiritual Crisis Starter Pack

A series of seven prints created by Breverman Visiting Artist Cooper Holoweski.

In the Department of Art Project Space

Center For the Arts, Room 155

On View: November 3-12, 2025

Reception: Tuesday. 11/4, 4-7PM

Zoom image: Exhibition poster for "Spiritual Crisis Starter Pack", by Cooper Holoweski, white white text overlaid on a detail photo of an art print depicting the back of an iPhone, a loose foot, hand, red cords, and a small clear pyramid. Exhibition poster for "Spiritual Crisis Starter Pack", by Cooper Holoweski, white white text overlaid on a detail photo of an art print depicting the back of an iPhone, a loose foot, hand, red cords, and a small clear pyramid.

Exhibition Statement:

This series of seven dye-sublimation prints depicts consumer objects aligned with the body’s energy meridians, extending the artist’s ongoing inquiry into spirituality within the landscape of late-stage capitalism. Referencing the human figure through scale and composition, each work is printed on unframed fabric, creating an immediate and tactile encounter with the viewer.

The Artist:

Cooper Holoweski visited the UB Department of Art as a Breverman Visiting Artist, and to present in the Fall Speaker Series.

Cooper Holoweski is an artist working in print, video, and sculpture.   His work explores the intersection of spirituality and consumerism through everyday objects and materials.  Holoweski has an MFA in printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design and has held residencies at Taller 99 in Santiago, Chile; Gallery Titanik in Turku, Finland; the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture; the Clocktower Gallery and the Lower East Side Printshop in NYC.  His prints have been described as “striking” by Paul Coldwell in Art in Print, and his video work has been praised by Sarah Schmerler of Art in America as “magical” and “infinitely watchable.”  Solo Exhibitions include: Nostalgia and Obsolescence, Small Editions, Brooklyn, NY, Cannibal Universe, Clocktower Gallery at Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY, and Basement Cosmos, CCS Center Galleries, Detroit, MI.  In Spring of 2017 he was awarded the Prix de Print by Art in PrintMagazine.  His short film “As Above, So Below” won Best Regional Filmmaker at the 57th annual Ann Arbor Film Festival in 2019.  In the summer of 2023, he was an artist in residence at the Frans Masereel Centrum in Kasterlee, Belgium.

Holoweski is currently the Artist-In-Residence and Head of the Print Media department at the Cranbrook Academy of Art.

Zoom image: "Spiritual Crisis Starter Pack" exhibition in the Project Space. A group of people stand in front of fabric art prints, depicting consumer products on colorful backgrounds. A man on the left speaks to the group on the right, gesturing with his hands.

"Spiritual Crisis Starter Pack" exhibition in the Project Space.

Zoom image: Cooper Holoweski visit to ART259: Intro to Screenprint class, doing collaborative printmaking and demonstrations, as a Breverman Visiting Artist. A group of people stand around a very long work table in a printmaking lab, with a black and white printed handprints work of art laying on the table. In the background there are window looking out over a small lake, with blue sky, and buildings behind.

Cooper Holoweski visit to ART259: Intro to Screenprint class, doing collaborative printmaking and demonstrations, as a Breverman Visiting Artist.

Zoom image: At the "Spiritual Crisis Starter Pack" reception, November 4, 2025. Two people stand in front of a fabric art print, holding up a caribiner of keys next to the representation of the same in the artwork. Men's underwear, a yoga mat, lumps of black glass, and a package of wet wipes are also represented in the artwork, on a pink background.

At the "Spiritual Crisis Starter Pack" reception, November 4, 2025.

Presented by:

Assistant Professor of Print Media Noah Breuer curated this exhibition and coordinated Holoweski's visit.

Exhibition assistance from MFA Graduate Student Assistants Teju Abiola and Eilis Regan.

Visiting Artist Speaker Series