Maybaum Gallery is pleased to present New Paintings by Sydney Cohen. The show will run from March 1st – 31st, with an Artist Opening on Thursday March 7th, 5- 7pm
A Shape on a shape on a shape, Sydney Cohens’ paintings are built through an ongoing invented narrative. Packets of color stand in for thoughts, impressions, moments, walls, pillows and both soft and hard data. Pigments are mixed and re-mixed, colors hiding within colors. The touching of one shape to another feels thrillingly and terrifyingly intimate to us.
‘These shapes don’t appear to be painted directly, but are formed as paint fills the ground around them. What remains are small gaps, which contain a visible history of her process in the traces of the various colors left behind at their edges. These borders between shape and ground (which is which) appear unstable as the different colors interact.’
-Interview with Sydney Cohen by Marlene Angeja
The artists says about her practice: “You know those piles of carpets in the shop or the market, stacked high and heavy? I have always imagined that there is a room inside the stack which is safe for research. This is where I go when I paint. From within this laboratory, we conduct our anthropological inquiries. Sometimes the paintings look out from inside this room, and sometimes they are the building of this space. The important findings always come from inside.” -Sydney Cohen
Based in Oakland, Sydney is a senior adjunct professor at California College of Arts
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