Italy: Vedute Abbey Interior, etching by Brian D. Cohen
Book Project 1: Brian D. Cohen: A Retrospective
This fine art book will preserve the legacy of Brian D. Cohen’s artwork.
It represents Brian’s 35 years as a printmaker and painter. The 200 prints and paintings featured express themes of loss, futility, destruction and unexpected, redemptive beauty.
Brian’s printmaking method, etching, is physical and elemental, requiring force and pressure, inviting first aggression, then delicacy. Brian says, “There is something about setting an image into metal that implies permanence, duration, and enduring presence.”
Brian’s watercolor paintings capture light, color, and shape, “simplifying or obscuring detail in favor of larger forms and the broader swell of color, a harmony that speaks of time, light, and distance, all at once,” he says.
Brian D. Cohen: A Retrospective will be available in the summer of 2022.
Squirrel, etching by Brian D. Cohen
Book Project 2: Bestiary: A Book of Animal Poems and Prints
This fine art book is a collaboration between poet Chard DeNiord and printmaker Brian D. Cohen.
This collaboration aims to capture the integrity of the animals’ wildness, beauty, and beatitude with the awareness that every creature, in some unique, inimitable way, is stranger and more mysterious than what we could ever imagine.
This book features over thirty poems and prints about a large range of animals.
Brian D. Cohen & Chard deNiord: Bestiary will be available in the summer of 2022.