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RYAN LEE is pleased to announce Shadows We Run For, an exhibition of new work by British artist Christopher Cook. For more than a decade, Cook has used liquid graphite, a medium he developed that combines graphite powder, resin and other solvents. His technique lends itself to a range of mark-making, from the rapid and improvisational to the finely detailed, and when applied to coated paper, it results in a fusion of drawing and painting.

Shadows We Run For draws its subject matter from seventeenth-century Dutch still life painting. What began as study of Willem van Aelst and Ambrosius …