Cora Cohen | A Decade: 2012-22

01-18, 2018

Caran D’Ache, pastel, watercolor on paper

22 x 30 in.

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“Although my work is often as uncertain and unformed as first sight,” said Cora Cohen in a 2013 interview, “it is anything but intuitive or unplanned.” Born in New York City in 1943, Cohen is best known for abstract paintings that grew more turbulent as she grew more willing to embrace conflict. Up until her death in 2023, Cohen continued to push the medium beyond all constraints by putting together a range of materials on the canvas, including meshing linen, pencil, ink, and pastel. This exhibition at Greene Naftali focuses on the experimental and tactile paintings Cohen produced during the last decade of her life.
 —Maggie Turner