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BRIAN D. COHEN
Artist Talk and Poetry Reading with Chard deNiord
Saturday, December 3, 5pm
Brian D. Cohen
Brian D. Cohen joins us to discuss his long artistic career. Cohen’s work explores many themes, including transportation, bridges, landscapes, animals, collaborative broadsides and books. Cohen will provide insight into his techniques and share stories behind the work in his current exhibit, A Retrospective featuring 120 engravings, etchings, and watercolors from the past 35 years. Cohen and former Vermont Poet Laureate Chard deNiord have collaborated over the years to create unique, limited edition artist books bringing together poems and prints and deNiord will offer a reading of some of this work.
Masks required
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Brian D. Cohen is a printmaker, painter, educator, and writer. In 1989 he founded Bridge Press to further the association and integration of visual image, original text, and book structure. As a printmaker, Cohen has shown in over forty individual exhibitions and has participated in over 200 group shows, he is also the illustrator of numerous artist and trade books.
Two Bridges, 1992, etching and aquatint
“The process of etching is physical and elemental, requiring force and pressure, inviting aggression and then delicacy, conjoining fire, water, earth, and air. There is something about seeing an image into metal that implies permanence, duration, and enduring presence, a presence I hope will persist in my work.”
