NANCY COHEN: BY FEEL opens May 18th

NANCY COHEN: BY FEEL May 18 - June 23, 2012 Reception: Thursday, May 24 from 6pm to 8pm Conversation with the artist & critic and curator, Jill Conner: Saturday, June 9th from 4pm to 6pm   Image: Geography of Desire, 2011, Glass, wire, rubber, cement, resin, 6" x 22" x 10"   NEW YORK, NY, MAY 2012 - ACCOLA GRIEFEN GALLERY is pleased to present Nancy Cohen: By Feel. The exhibition will open on Friday May 18 and continue through June 23, 2012 with a reception on Thursday May 24 from 6pm to 8pm. A conversation between Cohen and art critic and curator, Jill Conner, will be held on Saturday June 9th from 4pm to 6pm. Nancy Cohen scavenges, accumulates and reconfigures the discarded detritus of daily life: tiny perfume bottles, a patterned plate, a blue mesh bag. Cohen also fabricates forms which when combined with her found objects shape the visual vocabulary of the sculptures, large-scale installations and experimental paper-based works that make up this exhibition.   Cohen’s work addresses the extreme balancing act that contemporary life requires. Human and environmental frailties are set against the power of the natural world - to alter, threaten, destroy or simply decay. For her installation, P (n,k) Combinatorics,Cohen has covered the gallery walls with cast glass and cement forms that represent enlarged cellular structures but also resemble unearthly botanical life. From scooters drenched in pools of blue and black to floating glass forms that capture the light of water and the movement of waves, all of Cohen’s work suspends time and mark moments of precarious exchange. Nancy Cohen has a BFA from Rochester Institute of Technology and an MFA from Columbia University. Recent large-scale projects have included installations in Karmiel, Israel, the CODA Museum in Holland, one based on the Hudson River for the Katonah Museum of Art in NY and a collaboration with marine biologists and environmentalists based on the Mullica River for the Noyes Museum of Art in Oceanville, NJ. Cohen has been awarded a Pollack Krasner grant and Fellowships in Sculpture and Works on Paper from the NJ State Council on the Arts. Her work can be found in the permanent collections of the NJ State Museum, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Museum, Montclair Art Museum, & Yale University Art Museum among many others. Recent exhibitions have included “Permeable Matter” a solo exhibition at Kean University in Union, NJ and “Green: The Color & the Cause,” at the Textile Museum in Washington D.C. Cohen was born in Queens, NY and lives in Jersey City, NJ. A catalog for the exhibition with an essay by Jill Conner is available. ACCOLA GRIEFEN GALLERY is open Tuesday through Saturday from 11 AM to 6 PM. For more information contact Kat Griefen at info@accolagriefen.com or call 646-532-3488.

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This installation of Estuary: Moods & Modes in Louis Stokes Health Sciences Library at Howard University is its fourth permutation and final destination. In each venue the form and viewpoint of the piece has taken shape in direct response to the architecture of the site and it has become a new sculpture in each location.

  

Finding A Way Through   2011

A collaboration between Nancy Cohen, Erin Greenwood and JeanMarie Hartman

52  × 48 . × 24 inches

Wire, wire mesh, monofilament, handmade paper, paper pulp, rubber & wax

Working with drawings developed by ecologist JeanMarie Hartman and research
about issues of ground water in general and the Cuyahoga River in particular our
piece is meant evoke the movement of water under the surface of the ground and
through sequential layers of soil, silt, rock, etc. In this landscape, as in our own
lives, elements hang in the balance, each one necessary, vulnerable, beautiful and
above all interdependent.

                                                        

GROUND WATER: OUT OF SIGHT/SITE OUT OF MIND 

Hosted by The Sculpture Center, Cleveland, Ohio 

Ground Water: Out of Sight/Site Out of Mind examines the interconnectivity of water within the landscape through art objects, interactive displays and projection, and video. The collaborativeSynapse (group for art and science), at The University of Akron, encompasses artists and scientists exploring strategies for observing these invisible connections and for looking at water on a variety of scales.  

http://sculpturecenter.org/show_details/2011_Late_Fall_GroundWater.html

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August 16, 2011: I just came back from a wonderful artist residency at Pilchuck Glass School.  Images of new work will come later but for now these are process shots of a piece I made by pouring hot glass into a chiseled out log.
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Panorama and detail shots of  P(n,k) [Combinatoric]2s at the Affordable Art Fair through May 8th

 

 

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This installation is the current incarnation of my piece Estuary: Means and Modes now on view (through  September 11, 2011) at The Textile Museum in Washington DC.

To hear/read Susan Stamberg's talking about the piece/show on NPR:
http://www.npr.org/2011/04/20/135316415/celebrating-green-as-color-as-concept-as-cause

From the September issue of American Craft Magazine: http://americancraftmag.org/article.php?id=12422

From the Washington Post:http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/textile-museum-goes-green-with-new-exhibition/2011/04/22/AFzYp8RE_story.html

Online exhibition catalog:
http://www.textilemuseum.org/green/