About The Artist
Impact, not realism, is the aim of sculptor Claudia Cohen. By exploring figurative and narrative subjects, her work raises questions about the condition of being human. Her style has been described as comic surrealism, a style that blends objective reality with mythology and flights of fancy.
Her sculpted beings, in bronze and ceramic and oil, portray a magical cast of characters; human, animal, or a fantastical progeny from a universe of her own devising. Combining humor and pathos, the works involve the viewer in this mysterious world of the artist’s intuition.
“ To be able to shape my dreams and fantasies in tangible form, to see what two and three- dimensional forms those mysterious sparks form within my subconscious will take is for me what the search is all about. And creating these works allows me to share these visions with others
Claudia Cohen
480 Gate Five Road,
Studio 261-C,
Sausalito, CA 94965
415-332-1077
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ICB Artist Claudia Cohen has been creating since early years.
After studies at the Corcoran School of Art and George Washington University, Washington, DC she obtained her bachelors of art at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston in conjunction with Tufts University. At the time and for many years her focus was in sculpture. Now it’s figurative and narrative painting, with the help of studies with COM’s reverend teacher Chester Arnold.
Her creations are multilayered and reflect her life and inspirations. Renaissance portraiture also underpins her work. Claudia takes her audience on a narrative journey filled with interpretative reflections and fantasies.
Her work has been exhibited in museums and galleries across the US and internationally. She has received numerous grants and awards, including the George Sugarman Foundation, and several Marin Arts Council Grants.
In 2023, her painting Nevermore was part of the De Young Open.
Oil Paint, Sculpture
Contact Information
415 302 8577
Exhibitions & Press
Last year the art of Claudia Cohen was featured in ” Spotlight Sausalito” at the Sausalito Center for the Arts.
750 Bridgeway, Sausalito
Recently her oil painting Nevermore was part of the 2023 DeYoung Open.
Currently the Fabulous Butterfly Twins, oil is part to the 2024 Dualities Exhibition at the O’Hanlon Gallery, Mill Valley
2023 Exhibited as part of the DeYoung Open
2008 Invited Artist, “the grand ceramics theater” or ‘IL GRAN TEATRO CERAMICO’ at MIAAO –
Museo Internazionale delle Arti applicate Oggi, Turin – ITALY
2005 George Sugarman Foundation, National Award
2005 Invited artist, Biennale Internazionale dell’Arte Contemporanea, Florence, Italy
2004 First Prize in Sculpture. Scottsdale Center for the Arts . AZ
2003 Grant Recipient, Marin Arts Council, San Rafael, CA
2001 Sculpture Award, Scottsdale Center for the Arts, AZ
2001 Sculpture Award, Palo Alto Festival of the Arts, Palo Alto, CA
1998 Invited Artist, International Ceramic Exhibition and Conference, Faenza, Italy
Humor in Art, a Celebration of Visual Wit, by Nicholas Roukes
