Artist Biography
Bernard Cohen is a distinguished British painter and aficionado of the American Southwest. His abstract paintings use pictorial and schematic images of jet planes, animal tracks, dinner place settings, and billboards to create an exhilarating dance of form and texture across the picture plane. From the avant-garde of the ’60s to the present, Cohen has evoked the chaos, playfulness, and expansiveness of our times.
Bernard Cohen and Master Printer Bud Shark began a fruitful print relationship in New Mexico in 1970. They have worked together over the years to create many fabulous bodies of work, including the series Six Images for J. in 1976, the Colorado prints in 1999, and the recent Untitled lithograph completed in 2005. Cohen’s technique of layering meticulously hand-cut stencils, rotating and inverting images, and building up color in progressive stages is uniquely suitable to the printmaking process.
Bernard Cohen has exhibited his work widely in England, Europe, the United States and Asia. He has had several retrospective exhibitions, including work at the Hayward Gallery in London and a print retrospective at the Tate Gallery also in London.
Selected Collections: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada; Tate Gallery, London, England; Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
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