Seattle, WA – The Bellevue Arts Museum is presenting “Michael Cooper: A Sculptural Odyssey, 1968 – 2010” from July 12th until October 9th. Michael Cooper transforms commonplace objects into fantastical, thought-provoking vehicles. Pistol-packing tricycles and curiously mobile forms of “furniture” underscore Cooper’s role as one of the most innovative sculptors working today. Tracing over 40 years of this artist’s explorations, the exhibition is anchored by a monumental, kinetic, computer-driven work entitled “How the West Was Won, How the West Was Lost”, a sculptural treatise on conquest, greed and lust for oil and power: concepts as topical today as they were when the artist began the work in 1977.