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Tuesday December 4, 2001 | by laguiri

tk in progress SEEN: Flotsam, jetsam, and glass in Nancy Cohen’s “By Feel”
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Nancy Cohen has a BFA from Rochester Institute of Technology and an MFA from Columbia University. Recent large-scale projects have included installations in Karmiel, Israel, the CODA Museum in Holland, one based on the Hudson River for the Katonah Museum of Art in NY and a collaboration with marine biologists and environmentalists based on the Mullica River for the Noyes Museum of Art in Oceanville, NJ. Cohen has been awarded a Pollack Krasner grant and Fellowships in Sculpture and Works on Paper from the NJ State Council on the Arts. Her work can be found in the permanent collections of the NJ State Museum, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Museum, Montclair Art Museum, & Yale University Art Museum among many others. Recent exhibitions have included “Permeable Matter” a solo exhibition at Kean University in Union, NJ and “Green: The Color & the Cause,” at the Textile Museum in Washington D.C. Cohen was born in Queens, NY and lives in Jersey City, NJ.

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Tuesday December 4, 2001 | by Anna Tatelman

OPENING: Karen Donnellan explores the process of creation
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While so much of our world is focused on completion – finishing a task, meeting a deadline, checking another item off the to-do list – artist Karen Donnellan is much more interested in this cycle of creation than the end results. In her first solo exhibition entitled “Essentia,” Donnellan’s creations ask us to focus upon and appreciate not her finished products, but upon the way these products were made.

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Tuesday December 4, 2001 | by ktmo5678

OPENING: Czech Center offers “Invitation” to examine glass tradition and innovation
FILED UNDER: Exhibition
Beginning April 18th, The Czech Center based in New York will open a new glass exhibition entitled “Invitation.” This exhibit asks us to scrutinize the relationship between tradition and innovation within the glass world by displaying the works of both sixty and six years ago, of abroad and near locations, of experienced and new artists, of functionality and design – and exploring their complex intersections.

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