Jeremy Booth & Catie Cook: Dual exhibitions opening at Square One Gallery

Square One is proud to invite you to the dual opening receptions for Jeremy Booth's solo exhibition "Tough Luck" & Catie Cooks's solo exhibition "For Sport". Opening at Square One Gallery Friday, May 22nd from 6-9pm. Join us for an evening with the artists present, cocktails, and panel discusion.

Jeremy Booth: Tough Luck

Jeremy Booth is a Kentucky-based artist whose work reinterprets the American West through a bold, minimal visual language. Known for his graphic approach to cowboys and Western landscapes, Booth reduces familiar imagery into simplified, high-contrast compositions defined by sharp edges, saturated color, and dramatic light. Following his successful February 2025 exhibition with Square One Gallery, Tough Luck marks his sophomore presentation with the gallery, continuing his focus on the figures and environments that define his practice.

Tough Luck presents a new body of paintings that further distill Booth’s approach to image-making. While the subject matter remains rooted in the American West, the work reflects a heightened sense of clarity, control, and restraint, with each composition reduced to its most essential elements. Figures are isolated within fields of color and shadow, where light becomes a defining structure rather than a descriptive detail. Rather than following a single narrative, the exhibition unfolds as a progression, where each work stands independently while contributing to a broader evolution in Booth’s process and perspective.

Caite Cook: Fort Spot

Catie Cook is a contemporary painter whose work draws from her upbringing in the American South, where traditions of church, debutante culture, and beauty pageantry inform a visual language rooted in performance, control, and presentation. Holding a BFA from the University of Georgia and an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis, Cook has developed a practice that merges painterly realism with staged, cinematic compositions. Across her paintings, figures and animals occupy constructed environments that feel both familiar and deliberately artificial, reflecting an ongoing interest in how identity is shaped through observation and display.

In her solo presentation, For Sport, Cook examines her experiences of girlhood in the American South through the lens of performance. As the daughter of a scenic designer, her paintings reflect the language of theatre—idealized imagery and carefully constructed scenes that, though imitating reality, often feel eerie and artificial. Through the strangeness of a drape of fabric or the illusion of stage lighting, there is a lingering reminder that her characters are performing for the viewer’s gaze—a feeling emblematic of the female experience. Drawing from the art historical tradition of the hunt and depictions of Diana, Cook leads the viewer through glimpses of a faux hunt, depicting an anonymous female figure reminiscent of a debutante or bride. She deliberately obscures the act of violence, depicting only its aftermath—decorated with ribbons and bows—blurring the line between performance and reality. As her dogs snarl, pose, and leap across staged scenes reminiscent of the theatre, Cook weaves uncanny narratives wrought with themes of control, beauty, and artifice.

Join us for the receptions

Friday, May 22nd // 6-9pm
4814 Washington Blvd, STL

For more information & inquiries:

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