During this visit to the Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, the work of white American artist Jennifer Cohen fills out the entire space. Cohen's work depicts abstract gestures, materially produced by plaster applications and second-hand clothes, which provide the color factor into the overly white plaster figures.
Her work, as I found observe in three-dimensions, gravitate between the abstract and the figurative. The physical parts found in her sculptures are obtained by making mould impressions of body parts, which, according to the artist statement, reference sensuality, the human body, seduction, and their relationship to the outer world. Her work can be compared in some aspects to Mike Kelley's own sculptures, as a comparative study that draws from the body, the abstract, and the inaccessible, ethereal meanings behind forms that cannot be identified as neither absolutely abstract, nor figuratively human. Here some images, courtesy of the Bicelle Beauchene Gallery:
Her work, as I found observe in three-dimensions, gravitate between the abstract and the figurative. The physical parts found in her sculptures are obtained by making mould impressions of body parts, which, according to the artist statement, reference sensuality, the human body, seduction, and their relationship to the outer world. Her work can be compared in some aspects to Mike Kelley's own sculptures, as a comparative study that draws from the body, the abstract, and the inaccessible, ethereal meanings behind forms that cannot be identified as neither absolutely abstract, nor figuratively human. Here some images, courtesy of the Bicelle Beauchene Gallery:
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