Helen Cohen
Houston, Texas

Curriculum Vitae

Born, Cincinnati, Ohio l947

B.A  Radcliffe College cum laude l969

M.S.W. Smith College School for Social Work l971

Cambridge Adult Education Center, Berta Golahny, Painting, Cambridge Massachusetts l972-l975

Decordova Museum School, Lincoln, Massachusetts, l975-l976

Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, University of Oxford, Philip Mosberger l977-l978

The Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Art Houston, l981-Present, Arthur Turner, watercolor, Brian Portman, Painting and Drawing.

Artist Statement

Perhaps my background in dance, both modern and ballet, contributes to what I put into making art. Raised in an intensely intellectual and serious avant-garde social activist family, my work comes out of my background, but is primarily a departure from it.

Gaiety, wit, playfulness, movement and sometimes serenity. These are the ingredients of my drawings. Add color (acrylic, acrylic ink, and/or oil) and you have paintings. Elaborately layered, they are also about transparency (and perhaps mystery and secretiveness).

The work reflects my sensitivity and interest in landscape -- standing on the ground or viewed from above, either from a plane or from topographical maps, as well as abstract reference to the landscape of dreams.