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The combination of the aesthetic and the
craft inherent in woodcut printmaking is what draws Cohen
to this medium. The works are original small-editioned hand
pulled color prints. She works in a series, the last one being
an exploration of the rituals and accouterments of tea. This
allowed her to work with intricate pattern, texture and transparencies
in her constant pushing of the woodcut process. After creating
the image she cuts the block, in effect, creating a jigsaw
puzzle. Those individual pieces not left as flat surface areas
are relief cut before they are inked, reassembled and printed.
Often the jigsaw method will be combined with the traditional
Japanese way of printing, i.e.. Carving a single block per
color.
Cohens work has been selected for many
corporate and private collections, including The Library of
Congress Print Collection, and has also been in many regional
and national exhibitions, including a solo show at The Johnson
Museum of Art, Cornell University, in 1997
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