Jeane Cohen: Mesmer’s Garden

Jeane Cohen is a Brooklyn-based artist focusing on paintings that share vivid and connecting visual experiences at the edges of sensory perception. Her work has been covered by critics Barry Schwabsky, and Seph Rodney for the New York Times who wrote, “Cohen’s paintings…teach me about seeing, as a necessary act of carefully parsing out her visual abundance.” Cohen has received numerous fellowships and awards including the Visiting Artist in Scholar in Teaching at the Schneider Museum and Oregon Center for the Arts, a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, a Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program Residency, a John Anson Kittridge Foundation Grant, and a Prison Education Teaching Fellowship at the University of Maine among others. She has had solo exhibitions at Francois Ghebaly and Easy Does It Curatorial Projects (NYC), The Center for Maine Contemporary Art (ME), Flying Object (MA) and Miami University (OH) where she was awarded First Place in the Miami Yeck Young Painters Competition by juror Michelle Grabner. She has participated in group exhibitions at Make Room Gallery (Los Angeles), the Institute of Contemporary Art (ME), Suffolk County Community College (NY), Edgewood College (WI), Julius Caesar Gallery (IL), The Hyde Park Art Center (IL), The Roger Brown Study Collection (IL), Vox Populai (PA), Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PA), The Thomas Eakins House (PA), and the University of Helsinki (Finland). Cohen received her MFA in Painting and Drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and her BA in Art and Psychoanalysis from Hampshire College. Cohen is currently Faculty at Brown University where she teaches Painting and at MECA&D where she is a Graduate Advisor.