Every language comes with the caveat of abstraction, so rather than possibly overwriting my work I’ll distill something about myself instead: I’m a sci-fi geek and science dilettante, attracted to what defies classification. Since that is also what I hope to create, you could say I make pants out of pants. As much as I like [illustration, polymers, crafts, products], I try hard not to make them. Paradoxes and dualities regularly show up in my finished work — chaos/control is a favorite. My process often weaves between digital and tactile working space as futures of the image narrow towards a singularity… So many things are possible and impossible at the same time, including myself, which I keep seeing differently. On Tuesday, I’m an idiot/savant using the wrong end of a screwdriver. That’s the best I can do, I think. I will STFU before I say something that should stay in an ‘inside’ voice, like “I want to generate agnostic one-time code.”

Sandra Cohen studied fine art at Parsons School of Design, the SMFA, and the Art Institute of Boston. A Massachussets Cultural Council Painting Fellow (2008), a (lapsed) member of the Copley Society of Art, and current member of Fountain Street Gallery in Boston, she has also been a singer, guitarist, and drummer.

Awards

Painting Fellowship, Massachusetts Cultural Council, 2008

Affiliations

Fountain Street Gallery, Boston (2022- )
Newburyport Art Association (2020-2021)
Gallery 263, Cambridge (2015-2019)
Co|So, Boston (2000-2019)

Education

Lesley University, Cambridge, MA (BS Studio Art, Art History)
Pine Manor College, Chestnut Hill, MA (Printmaking, Drawing)
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA (Painting, Printmaking)
Parsons School of Design, New York, NY (Studio Art)

Some Exhibitions