To Hold, To Harbor, 2024
Medium
Limited Edition — Archival Pigment Print
Price
$75 USD
Artist
Genevieve Cohn
Publisher
Hashimoto Contemporary
Dimensions
14" x 11"
Curator's Note
“In "To Hold, To Harbor," Genevieve Cohn explores the quiet, symbiotic relationship between the feminine figure and the natural world, distilling the act of gathering into a profound ritual of sanctuary and care. The composition is bathed in a radiant, sun-drenched palette of ochres, marigolds, and deep terracottas, where the flattening of forms and the rhythmic interplay of botanical shapes create an atmosphere of suspended, luminous stillness. This deliberate simplification of space and vibrant, emotive use of color echoes the decorative warmth of Henri Matisse and the structural folk-modernism of early twentieth-century painters, yet remains entirely contemporary in its narrative focus. As a highly coveted limited edition, this print would bring a contemplative grounding to a quiet master bedroom ledge or serve as a radiant focal point resting on a raw limestone fireplace mantel.”
About the Artist
Genevieve Cohn is a painter raised in rural Vermont and now based in Boston. She holds a BA from Ithaca College and an MFA in painting from Indiana University, and taught at Wellesley College as a Mellon Fellow. Her acrylic paintings imagine communities of women at work — navigating, mending, and holding together the strange, saturated worlds they inhabit — drawing on the Women's Land Army of the World Wars, female separatist communities, fairy tales, and literary fiction. A recipient of the Hopper Prize, she has completed residencies at the Fiore Art Center, Vermont Studio Center, Ragdale Foundation, and AiRGentum in Seville.
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