Cohen Exhibitions

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Rounding The Corner

  • 04.25.2024 April 25 - July 21, 2024
  • Year: 2023-2024

Showcasing artwork by first-year graduate students studying in the School of Art and Design who are rounding the corner into their second and final year. The exhibition will feature small works in ...

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New Faculty

  • 01.18.2024 January 18 - March 17, 2024
  • Year: 2023-2024

This exhibition features work by seven recently hired tenure-track professors: Rebecca Arday, Paul Briggs, Nicki Green, Stephanie Hanes, Anthony Nguyen in collaboration with Taryn Cassella, Kelsey ...

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Alumni Invitational Pottery Exhibition and Sale

  • 10.19.2023 October 19 - December 3, 2023
  • Year: 2023-2024

Five accomplished potters and alumni from the School of Art and Design, Rebecca Chappell (MFA 08), Sanam Emami (MFA 02), Ryan Greenheck (MFA 04), Alleghany Meadows (MFA 99), and Kyla Toomey (BFA 04...

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Salt and Steel

  • 04.07.2018 April 7 - August 3, 2018
  • Year: 2017-2018

Hope's formalist paintings are constructed with simple, direct color forms. Focusing on color, line, and light allow the artist to create a place for the subject to live. She plays on the geometry ...

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Central Receiving

  • 09.01.2023 September 1 - October 1, 2023
  • Year: 2023-2024

Central Receiving features new paintings by alum artist, Trevor Bennett (MFA 2012). In his exhibition statement Bennett gives insight into his title "I like to pretend that my studio is the embodim...

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Fitting In and Standing Out

  • 04.06.2019 April 6 - August 9, 2019
  • Year: 2018-2019

Fitting In and Standing Out showcases a comprehensive sampling of Monica Duncan and Lara Odell's work, starting with the collaborative pieces they created while at Alfred (they met in 2000, when Mo...

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Drawing Community

  • 01.21.2022 January 21 - February 21, 2022
  • Year: 2021-2022

This community project invites anyone who would like to participate to submit an 11" x 14" drawing to the Cohen Gallery on the theme of Reconnection. The drawings will be in conversation with the ...

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Local Alumni Invitational

  • 02.08.2019 February 8 - March 15, 2019
  • Year: 2018-2019

Alfred is home to many artists and artisans who have put down roots in our magic valley. The Cohen Center Gallery, an historic and intimate setting on Main Street in Alfred, presents an exhibition ...

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Exquisite Corpse: Community Drawing Exhibition

  • 01.19.2023 January 19 - February 16, 2023
  • Year: 2022-2023

In this playful and fun filled exhibition member of the community collaborated in the making of Exquisite Corpse drawings. Exquisite Corpse is a game in which a participant makes a drawing on a she...

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Ikebana Ziggurat

  • 11.02.2018 November 2 - December 7, 2018
  • Year: 2018-2019

Ikebana and Ziggurat are both distinct formalist structures. The work of Ellen Bahr and Kathleen McShane can be located within a conceptual ikebana where space is the prominent compositional elemen...

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The Bob & Bobble Show

  • 06.01.2022 June 1 - August 5, 2022
  • Year: 2021-2022

This whimsical show featuring Yessiree Bob: a photo-graphic collection of Bob signs by Judy Livingston, and bobble head sculptures by Jesse "So Handsome" Plass, is the perfect show to keep your sum...

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Fluorescent Dirt

  • 06.08.2023 June 8 - July 22, 2023
  • Year: 2022-2023

Fluorescent Dirt featuring the work of AU alumni and current faculty Patrick Brennan, and artist/collaborator Grace Sachi Troxell, will be on display at the Cohen Gallery June 8 - July 22, with a r...

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Neil Before Zod

  • 09.14.2018 September 14 - October 19, 2018
  • Year: 2018-2019

Sczerbaniewicz's series of installation works investigates the interplay between the rational and the irrational as illustrated in three interactive spatial vignettes. The conceptual matrix behind ...

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Won't You Be My Neighbor?

  • 08.22.2019 August 22 - October 4, 2019
  • Year: 2019-2020

Won't You be my Neighbor? was conceived by Stevenson, who wanted to break down the divide between Alfred University/ Alfred State College and permanent Alfred community members through the making o...

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Idyll Currents

  • 11.04.2022 November 4 - December 4, 2022
  • Year: 2022-2023

Abstract artist and AU alum Jonathan Faber will show new paintings and drawings in this solo exhibition. For Faber "painting is a physical thinking process—a way of getting involved in a kind of i...

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what's her face.

  • 02.02.2018 February 2 - March 16, 2018
  • Year: 2017-2018

Victoria's studio practice stems from her query of autobiography and the investigation of the female narrative within her Hmong-American perspective. Victoria's observations from cultural, bodily, ...

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After Alfred

  • 11.05.2021 November 5 - December 8, 2021
  • Year: 2021-2022

Early memories of playing in the mud, sand. Play-Dog and flour dough connect us to clay. These memories are what shape us as makers and continue to pull us back now to porcelain, terracotta and sto...

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Open Space: BIPOC Residency Exhibition

  • 09.02.2022 September 2 - October 22, 2022
  • Year: 2022-2023

Open Space features the work of four artists Adrian Aguilera, Tatiana Florival, Claire Hu, and Jacoub Reyes who came to Alfred this summer to participate in the first BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, Peop...

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The Sweat Life

  • 02.02.2018 February 2 - March 16, 2018
  • Year: 2017-2018

Ladia is fascinated by the artificial world created by contemporary society and is interested in the actions we take to make our lives happier through consumption and social pressure. She observes ...

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Nuyorican

  • 03.03.2022 March 3 - April 30, 2022
  • Year: 2021-2022

During the height of Puerto Rican migration to the United States, mostly during the 1950's and 1960's, a new term came about to describe those of this Diaspora - Nuyorican. Originally meant to be a...

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I5olation

  • 01.21.2022 January 21 - February 21, 2022
  • Year: 2021-2022

The exhibition came about during a conversation between sculptors, Coral Lambert and Cynthia Handel when they were checking in on each other in early April 2020. They were discussing how the pandem...

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In Cahoots With...

  • 04.07.2018 April 7 - August 3, 2018
  • Year: 2017-2018

This exhibition highlights the collaborative prints produced in cahoots with and printed by Tim Pauszek. The collection features works by SoAD faculty as well as IEA visiting artists who typically ...

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Change of Address

  • 09.03.2021 September 3 - October 4, 2021
  • Year: 2021-2022

An exhibit featuring the work of several artists we recently welcomed into the School of Art & Design as faculty members.

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Choice

  • 03.02.2023 March 2 - May 8, 2023
  • Year: 2022-2023

Judith Olson Gregory's layered wall hangings, constructed from tea bags and other delicate fibers, embedded text and layered patterns, reference iconic women and ask poignant, philosophical questions.

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