Lucio#4, colored pencils on paper, 8"x8"
YVETTE COHEN
Swimming on Air
April 1-30
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 1, 2-4
While Yvette Cohen's work is two-dimensional, she thinks sculpturally. Cohen
creates boldly colored, painting-sculptures that are two-dimensional and mount
flat on the wall with no need for a frame. Often grouped in diptychs, triptychs, or polyptychs, they activate their surroundings because, in a way, the wall becomes the canvas. These works stretch the perception of space beyond the actual size of the artwork and offer a different perspective. Like the painting-sculptures, Cohen's drawings also reevaluate our perception of space
Cohen lives and works in New York, NY. She was born in Egypt, and raised in
Paris and Montreal. She received a BFA from Concordia University in Montreal
where she studied with Guido Molinari. After moving to New York, she continued
her education attending classes at the Art Student’s League, the School of Visual
Arts and the Whitney seminars. For a year she worked in lithography at the Bob
Blackburn Printmaking Workshop. Cohen's work has recently been exhibited at
Frosch & Co. (New York, NY) in two group exhibitions, DO Stacks and Paper
Power. During the pandemic, her work was included in various online exhibitions
at the Jason McCoy Gallery (New York, NY), the Flatfile Gallery, and the
Hammond Museum (Salem, MA). Cohen has had two site-specific installations in
New York City; one at Cassina, the renowned Italian design company, and one at
Basta Pasta, the acclaimed Japanese-Italian restaurant. In 2018, Ellen Fagan of
Odetta Gallery in Bushwick brought back to life some of the painting-sculptures
from the Cassina installation along with current work in her expansive gallery.
Cohen’s work is in private collections in New York, Switzerland, Taiwan, France,
and Japan.
