RONA LEE COHEN
Unmoored
June 21 – August 10, 2025
Opening and Artist Reception
Saturday, June 21, 5-7pm
In the turvy of our everyday coming undone, it is its own weirdness to pick up a paintbrush and with vague notion to keep at something that might turn out whole.
I lean into the drift to paint – the falling into rhythm, the stillness of nothing happening, the forcing of things forward, the noticing of the surprisingly strange mark, the painful pauses on empty, the too much, the not enough, the hoping for something…
There is an invitation in the expressive arts to let go into an unformed, unbounded state, one that doesn’t need to make sense.
~ Rona Lee Cohen
“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.They are domestic—tables tippy, household objects recorded and revered in their strangeness.”
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“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.”
Mitchell•Giddings Fine Arts offers contemporary art in a variety of media, featuring emerging and established artists.
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