Andrea Mindell Cohen

Silver Award Art

Dietie

Acrylic soakstained textile collage on canvas

35 x 33 inches

2022

My recent body of work, is an examination of both faith and immortality. I began the series while undergoing cancer treatment. The artwork became both a document of my journey through the illness, and a talisman to summon the strength and healing powers I needed to survive. Repetitive images are recreated as a symbol of physical protection from a higher being. I use stained collaged textiles on raw canvas to represent the healing transformation of the body itself.

Andrea Mindell Cohen is a Spanish-Canadian visual artist born in Vancouver B.C. lives and works in Barcelona. She worked in the fashion industry for many years as a fashion and textile designer in Los Angeles and Barcelona. She has exhibited in Los Angeles, New York, Tel Aviv, Berlin, Mallorca, and Barcelona. Cohen ́s artwork is deeply influenced by her Spanish/Moroccan heritage and fashion textile. Cohen received her BFA from Otis/Parsons College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, Ca. and a degree in fashion-textile design from the International Academy of Design and Technology in Toronto, Canada, along with her studies abroad in art history and photography at Lorenzo de Medici School in Florence, Italy. She continued her art practice at the Zaritsky Artists House of Printmaking and Surface Design, in Tel Aviv and later a residency in lithography and printmaking at Quadrat 9 in Barcelona.

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