Nancy Cohen : Hackensack dreaming

Name/Title

Nancy Cohen : Hackensack dreaming

Entry/Object ID

N9500.C64.H3

Description

Nancy Cohen achieves a delicate balance between celebration and critique in her large installation 'Hackensack Dreaming' of 2013-15. She revels in natural beauty and fecundity as she also comments on reckless environmental disregard. With this amalgamation, Cohen fills the gallery space with numerous images and forms recalling Mill Creek Marsh, a wetlands section of the Hackensack River. The topic of Cohen's installation is an area of New Jersey that is over-built. Principally, it is an environment of interlacing highways with massive big box stores offset by the Manhattan skyline in the distance. This portion of the New Jersey Meadowlands is lowlands, situated between the Palisades cliffs and the Watchung Mountains. Cohen's work recalls these specific surrounds while considering the environment and our relationship with it.

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Search Terms

artist monographs, exhibition catalogs, installations (art), mixed media (art)

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Category

Exhibition catalog

Book Details

Author

Nancy Cohen, Midori Yoshimoto, New Jersey City University Galleries, New Jersey City University Visual Arts Gallery

Publisher

New Jersey City University Galleries

Date Published

2015

Call No.

N9500.C64.H3

Notes

Length: 30