Categories Abstract, Landscape

ANITA HELEN COHEN

ARTIST STATEMENT

For me, all of nature is art. What is a linden leaf in autumn if not Nature’s painting? Unlikely colors combine perfectly in composition and symmetrical design!

I am drawn to texture, color and form – especially details created by texture. I often see details before I see the ‘whole’, and I find it totally engrossing to get lost painting them.

Watercolors are a natural medium for me. They allow me enormous range: for example, to create delicate, transparent flowers as well as to change textured, hard rock surfaces into softer more accessible, more feminine form.

With my recent work using yupo synthetic paper, the process of ‘chasing’ and ‘taming’ the paint, coaxing it toward more predictability, feels magical. I allow the painting to ‘speak to me’. This is a process of discovery in which the painting and I are interactive partners, continually creating images and meaning together. This approach has enabled me to work more freely and abstractly.

RESUME:

ahcwatercolor@gmail.com
21 Fox Lane Newton, MA 02459 617 642 4404

EDUCATION

1967 BA in Philosophy New York University
1994-2009 Studied Watercolor Painting with Jeanne Gray
2010-2019 Studied Contemporary Painting with Roberta Paul

RELATED EXPERIENCE

1969-1972 The Artisan
I designed and created a line of hand block-printed greeting cards
sold in department stores in NYC and Europe
WEB SITE www.anitahelencohenart.com

EXHIBITIONS:

(Partial list)
2019 Concord Art Concord MA ‘Roddy’ Juried Show
2019 Newton Free Library Newton MA Solo Show
2019 Annual Awards Show Newton MA Juried Group Show
2019 Beacon Gallery Boston MA Juried Group Show
2019 Hopkinton Ctr for the Arts Hopkin. MA Juried Group Show
2018 Brush Gallery Lowell MA Juried Winter Show
2018 Annual Awards Show Newton MA Juried Group Show
2018 National Awards Show Cape Cod Art Juried Group Show
2018 Concord Art Concord MA ‘Roddy’ Juried Show
2018 – 2013 Bonnar Show Newton MA Juried Group Show
2017 Marblehead Arts Assn. Marblehead, MA Juried Solo Show
2017 Junior League Showhouse Belmont MA Juried Group Show
2017 Cambridge School of Weston Weston, MA Juried Group Show
2017 Centennial Gallery Peabody MA Juried Group Show
2017 Concord Art Concord MA Members Juried i
2016 Concord Art Concord MA ‘Roddy’ Juried Show
2016 Wedeman Gallery Newton MA Group Exhibit
2016 Cahoon Museum: ‘Botanica’ Cotuit, MA Nat’l Assn Women Artists: Juried
2016 Endicott College: ‘Breaking Ground’ Heftler Gallery Beverly MA Nat’l
Assn Women Artists: Juried Group Exhibit
2016 Fountain St Fine Art Gallery : ‘Continuum’ Framingham MA Nat’l Assn
Women Artists: Juried Group Exhibit
2016 Cambridge Art Assn Cambridge, MA Group Exhibit
2016 Marblehead Members’ Marblehead, MA Group Exhibit
2015 Rockport Art Assn.: ‘Strokes of Genius’ Nat’l Assn. Women Artists: Juried Group Exhibit

AWARDS

2019 Arts in Bloom Hopkinton MA Honorable Mention
2018 Annual Awards Show Newton MA First Prize
2018 National Awards Show Barnstable Second Prize
2018 NE Juried Prize Show Newburyport First Prize
2017 Bonnar Show Newton MA First Prize
2016 Bonnar Show Newton MA Honorable Mention
2016 Newton Art Assn. Newton MA Third Prize
2016 Newton Art Assn. Natick MA Honorable Mention
2016 Wedeman Gallery Newton MA Third Prize
2015 National Assn. of Women Artists NYC Juried Member