Oreen Cohen

Voraciously drawn or forcefully bent, my approach to sculpture, installation, and drawing is a physical and automatic response to internal and external environments.

My body is inextricably a tool used in the process. I scavenge for unconventional materials for assemblage; the immediacy of charcoal becomes hard lines that define mental states, and steel is made sensual, alluring, and deeply effeminate.

The physicality and its degradation over time is a desire to articulate, through gesture and matter, the inarticulable extremes of death, rebirth, and transformation. Material sensibilities guide the process that initiates an experiential exchange between me and the context.