Provincetown
Gallery Ehva
Contemporary & Early Provincetown Art
Ewa Nogiec, Director
Winter hours:
Fri, Sat, Sun Noon-4pm
provincetown
contemporary artists
James Bakker
Rachel Brown
Daniel Cleary
Barbara Cohen
Tamar Cohen
Didier Corallo
Daniel Dejean
Tasha Depp
Donna Dodson
Rob DuToit
Jenny Fragosa
Lorrie Fredette
Wendelin Glatzel
Iren Handschuh
Suzanne Harding
Myrna Harrison
Alicia Henry
Jenny Humphreys
Leslie Gillette Jackson
Jane Kogan
MP Landis
Bill Liebeskind
Virginia Luppino
Jay McDermott
Kevin McDermott
Andy Moerlein
Ewa Nogiec
Fawn Potash
Richard E. Smith
Sterck/Rozo
Lisa Ventre
Michael Walden
Rob Westerberg
Special Collection:
Richard Baker
Sculpture Garden (outside):
Whale Tail: Greg Clemence
Wind: Donald Gerola
"Diana Godess of the Hunt": Jerry Holmes
Phil Smith, Show Installations
74 Shank Painter Road
P.O. Box 1426
Provincetown, MA 02657
508-487-0011
508-776-4856 (cell)
www.galleryehva.com
art@galleryehva.com
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Marcus Waterman | Agnes Weinrich | D.C. Wyman
Tamar Cohen
August 14-26, 2009
Opening Friday, August 14, 6-8pm
Tamar Cohen
Tamar featured in Print magazine...http://www.printmag.com/Article/Seeing-Spots
Target Chakra 20" x 29" 2009
Custom-Made Havoline 23" x 32" 2009
Happy Motoring in Cape Cod 24" X 33.5" 2009 SOLD
Turner Turnpike 29" x 18" 2009
See Kansas Best by Car 25.5" X 18" 2009 SOLD
ARTIST STATEMENT
Two life-long passions that drive my work are my love of polka dots and my ongoing
enthusiasm for vintage paper ephemera and books. I use collage and silkscreen to
combine and juxtapose the two, creating a dynamic visual world of layered contrasts.
This palette of visual obsessions inspires me in many ways, as I explore the relation-
ship between high and low, order and chaos, the abstracted and the everyday. I
also strive to push and challenge the boundaries of conventional printmaking: I paint
with paper.
Dots are my figure, my landscape and my frame. Artists from Lichtenstein to Polke to
Hirst have used the dot in their own work, whether as a sly allusion to the CMYK dots
that comprise all printed images or in reference to its elemental and eternal shape. They
serve to focus, reveal, subsume and re-contextualize my abstracted paper narratives.
The root of my narrative choices begins with a love of paper and its physical tactile
nature. I am drawn to paper and books produced in the 1950s and ’60s: a time when
printing techniques were basic and information was conveyed in a more simple and
unsophisticated way. I also use a printing process that has not changed in decades. I
find this all refreshing in today’s high-tech virtual world.
The choices I make are influenced by a range of criteria, including content, style, color,
scale and sometimes simply intuition. I begin with a visually dense background collage,
then use the dots and a layering of ink to alternately highlight and conceal the visual
content. This creates a dialogue between the foreground and background by fostering
a complex and ambiguous sense of space. Though I strive to make my own order out
of the chaos, it is my hope that each viewer navigates his or her own path of discovery.
Like the varied uneven edges of my work, interpretation is best when not limited by
four corners.
BIO
Tamar Cohen is a New York-born and-based artist whose collages reside at the
intersection of high and low culture. She is inspired equally by the sublime and the
banal; by Kurt Schwitters and Fred Flintstone; by polka dots and all shades of
the color green. An obsessive collector of paper ephemera, Cohen loves candy
packaging from around the world, Indian fireworks labels, and Spanish bullfighting
posters. Recently she has discovered a passion for vintage children's textbooks,
dictionaries and comics from the 1960s. Cohen uses them to create silk-screened
abstractions that according to the New York Times "Stand out for their color and
beauty". Her work has been shown at the Pavel Zoubok Gallery, the Islip Museum
of Art, Pocket Utopia and the flat files at Pierogi 2000.
Tamar's work is currently on view in the International Print Center New York's Spring
show curated by Polly Apfelbaum and at Kris Graves Projects in Brooklyn.
100 Box No. 31
2007
8 1/4" x 11 3/8"
Silkscreen on vintage book page
100 Box No. 79
2007
7" x 10 1/16"
Silkscreen on vintage book page
Atlantic Cod
2007
7" x 10 1/16"
Silkscreen on vintage book page
100 Box No. 47, 8 " x 11 1/4" 2007 Silkscreen on vintage book page
