Noga Cohen
Bio: Noga Cohen (1994) is a New York based artist, working mainly in sculpture, installation and mixed media. Her work explores natural processes of decay and putrefaction reflected on the body, in synthetic materials, and nature.
In 2018, she received her BFA in Visual Arts, with honors, from Shenkar Institute of Design and Arts in Tel Aviv, Israel. The same year she received the Margaret and Sylvan Adams Prize for Emerging Artists, The Gross Foundation Award, and the SBY Grant.
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Instagram: @nogie_
Thesis Exhibition
Artist Statement: My work focuses on found materials that explore bodily qualities through processes of deconstruction and rebuilding. Interested in the tension between decay and preservation, perilousness, and protection, I create work that’s driven by an idea of a decaying body, not only a human body—but the ocean and the desert as bodies, domestic spaces and piles of trash as bodies. I explore processes of decomposition and putrefaction of organic and synthetic materials and observe the ways the human body is perceived and valued.
I use broken pieces of furniture, industrial materials often used in house constructions, packaging materials, trash, and disposable plastic. The materials are often melted in high heat and utilized to reveal bodily elements and anthropomorphic forms. Inspired by the absurdity and uncanniness of the Anthropocene, I address the precariousness of human existence in a time of an ecological crisis.
Nightmare nest, (6” x 76” x 130," Mixed Media (plastic, fiberglass, wax), 2021); Bandage the knife, (28” x 33” x 86,” Mixed Media (wood, resin, fiberglass, recycled cotton fibers, acrylic), 2021); Honey Trap, (51" x 97" x 64," Mixed media (metal, plastic, wax, fiberglass), 2021)
First Year Exhibition
Ocean Alchemy, (81 x 32 x 48 in, Plastic, wax, insulation, resin, rope, steel hook, 2021)
Open Studios
