Gal Cohen "Mika Week 17"
sumi ink on paper/ 14x17 inch/ 2021. $850
Artist Statement
‘Mika’ is a queer visual memoir, documenting my wife’s pregnancy. Drawing Mika from live observation, I’m following her progressing pregnancy on bi-weekly basis. Each Drawing is titled ‘Mika week x’, and the drawings as a whole function as alternative documentation to the medical approaches of examining the progress of pregnancy (like ultrasounds and serial checkups with regards to the age of pregnancy, also measured by weeks). This project is time-specific (vs. site specific), and built on the seriality and chronology of the drawings. The changes from week to week are subtle, yet visible. Each drawing adds up to the rest as they build up the dimension of time and expectation. Mika usually appears in lying positions, referencing the reclining nude and leisurely feminine postures throughout art history. While Mika is resting, the belly implies the hard work of her body, a paradoxical reminder to labor in both meanings: (1)Labor as natural component of birth process, (2) labor as alarming reminder to the endless challenges of being a queer family of two women, where gender, race, sexual orientation and economic inequality are factors that determine one’s (glass ceilinged) future.
Artist Bio
Gal Cohen (b. 1986) is a NYC based visual artist. Cohen is a 2020 artist in residence in Cornerstone Studios and a current Scholarship Artist in Manhattan Graphic Center studios . A recent alumni of AIM fellowship in the Bronx Museum of the Arts, and a Chashama ‘Space to Connect’ artist in residence (2019-2020). Cohen earned her MFA in Fine Arts at Parsons The New School (2018) and B.F.A in Fine Arts at Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem (2009). Among the exhibitions she participated in are: Bronx Calling: The Fifth AIM Biennial at the Bronx Museum of The Arts (upcoming in October 2021), Women in the Heights, Rio II Gallery, NY, 2020, Arlington Arts Center, VA, 2020, Queer portraiture at Bric Gallery, Brooklyn 2019, Clemente Art Center, NY (2018), Spring/Break Art Show 2018, Westbeth Gallery NY (2018).
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Price does NOT include tax & shipping. Contact robert@collarworks.org for shipping options and estimate.
sumi ink on paper/ 14x17 inch/ 2021. $850
Artist Statement
‘Mika’ is a queer visual memoir, documenting my wife’s pregnancy. Drawing Mika from live observation, I’m following her progressing pregnancy on bi-weekly basis. Each Drawing is titled ‘Mika week x’, and the drawings as a whole function as alternative documentation to the medical approaches of examining the progress of pregnancy (like ultrasounds and serial checkups with regards to the age of pregnancy, also measured by weeks). This project is time-specific (vs. site specific), and built on the seriality and chronology of the drawings. The changes from week to week are subtle, yet visible. Each drawing adds up to the rest as they build up the dimension of time and expectation. Mika usually appears in lying positions, referencing the reclining nude and leisurely feminine postures throughout art history. While Mika is resting, the belly implies the hard work of her body, a paradoxical reminder to labor in both meanings: (1)Labor as natural component of birth process, (2) labor as alarming reminder to the endless challenges of being a queer family of two women, where gender, race, sexual orientation and economic inequality are factors that determine one’s (glass ceilinged) future.
Artist Bio
Gal Cohen (b. 1986) is a NYC based visual artist. Cohen is a 2020 artist in residence in Cornerstone Studios and a current Scholarship Artist in Manhattan Graphic Center studios . A recent alumni of AIM fellowship in the Bronx Museum of the Arts, and a Chashama ‘Space to Connect’ artist in residence (2019-2020). Cohen earned her MFA in Fine Arts at Parsons The New School (2018) and B.F.A in Fine Arts at Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem (2009). Among the exhibitions she participated in are: Bronx Calling: The Fifth AIM Biennial at the Bronx Museum of The Arts (upcoming in October 2021), Women in the Heights, Rio II Gallery, NY, 2020, Arlington Arts Center, VA, 2020, Queer portraiture at Bric Gallery, Brooklyn 2019, Clemente Art Center, NY (2018), Spring/Break Art Show 2018, Westbeth Gallery NY (2018).
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Price does NOT include tax & shipping. Contact robert@collarworks.org for shipping options and estimate.
sumi ink on paper/ 14x17 inch/ 2021. $850
Artist Statement
‘Mika’ is a queer visual memoir, documenting my wife’s pregnancy. Drawing Mika from live observation, I’m following her progressing pregnancy on bi-weekly basis. Each Drawing is titled ‘Mika week x’, and the drawings as a whole function as alternative documentation to the medical approaches of examining the progress of pregnancy (like ultrasounds and serial checkups with regards to the age of pregnancy, also measured by weeks). This project is time-specific (vs. site specific), and built on the seriality and chronology of the drawings. The changes from week to week are subtle, yet visible. Each drawing adds up to the rest as they build up the dimension of time and expectation. Mika usually appears in lying positions, referencing the reclining nude and leisurely feminine postures throughout art history. While Mika is resting, the belly implies the hard work of her body, a paradoxical reminder to labor in both meanings: (1)Labor as natural component of birth process, (2) labor as alarming reminder to the endless challenges of being a queer family of two women, where gender, race, sexual orientation and economic inequality are factors that determine one’s (glass ceilinged) future.
Artist Bio
Gal Cohen (b. 1986) is a NYC based visual artist. Cohen is a 2020 artist in residence in Cornerstone Studios and a current Scholarship Artist in Manhattan Graphic Center studios . A recent alumni of AIM fellowship in the Bronx Museum of the Arts, and a Chashama ‘Space to Connect’ artist in residence (2019-2020). Cohen earned her MFA in Fine Arts at Parsons The New School (2018) and B.F.A in Fine Arts at Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem (2009). Among the exhibitions she participated in are: Bronx Calling: The Fifth AIM Biennial at the Bronx Museum of The Arts (upcoming in October 2021), Women in the Heights, Rio II Gallery, NY, 2020, Arlington Arts Center, VA, 2020, Queer portraiture at Bric Gallery, Brooklyn 2019, Clemente Art Center, NY (2018), Spring/Break Art Show 2018, Westbeth Gallery NY (2018).
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