RONA LEE COHEN
Tableaux
May 6 – June 19, 2022
Opening and Artist Reception
During Gallery Walk — Friday, May 6, 5-8pm
Rona Lee Cohen, Red Table with Dakini, oil on paper
Painting is my unruly companion. We have a tense relationship. Painting demands attention from me—and I’m often not sure what to do with that. There is some kind of search going on.
There is a groping, a random and also a deeply studied quality to the search. I don’t know what it is but I get a certain feeling when I’m getting close to it, a camaraderie with the painting. A harmony arises within the disharmoniousness.
Each painting is a new relationship. The larger paintings are domestic—tables tippy, household objects recorded and revered in their strangeness.
I find, unfind, refind, refine, unrefine. It’s an unpredictable, unsteady process. There is a place where the seen touches the unseen and unravels a bit, moving in and out of something sensible.
~Rona Lee Cohen