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ELSI DEL RIO Gallery Wednesday December 17, 2014
Born in Buenos Aires, illustrator Fernanda Cohen lived in New York City for 12 years—she has contributed articles to our sister newsletter, DART: Design Arts Daily—and in 2011 returned to her native city. Her latest solo show, up through the end of the year at the Elsi del Rio
gallery in Buenos Aires, focuses on a series of 122 drawings, 68 of which feature baby faces show crying and laughing. The work highlights how much these opposite facial expressions are often not that
different at that age, says Cohen. Read the full Story >>
By Monday August 24, 2009
As common as it is to see naked people, even if only ourselves in the shower, there is something unique and curious about the work of illustrator/artist Fernanda Cohen. I could say it's because of
her simple bold, bright, color palettes or perhaps the absence of gravity that leaves her subjects suspended in mid air. But, honestly I don't like it for any of … Read the full Story >>
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Fernanda Cohen Monday May 9, 2011
Martín Churba is one of the top designers in Argentina, with significant success across the Atlantic—mainly in Tokyo—as well as Hong Kong, France and the Middle East. His work
has made it to the U.S. too, not only through his fabulous clothes but this time also thanks to the Walt Disney Company. A pioneer in textile design, Churba has been an
Argentine fashion icon … Read the full Story >>
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Fernanda Cohen Thursday November 19, 2009
The LA-based Tornado Design Studio, whose motto is 'Making Culture Pop,' is behind
the upcoming group exhibition and benefit sale, Enlighten! Featuring limited-edition lamp shades designed by over 85 established artists, the sale
benefits Inner-City Arts, an organization that offers arts education programs for at-risk children from Los Angeles' public schools. The art is printed on
polypropelene shades, which are mounted on … Read the full Story >>
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Fernanda Cohen Thursday June 17, 2010
ICON, the biannual conference that brings media people and artists together to discuss signal issues and trends in publishing, launches in just a month, in sunny
LA. One of the keynote speakers who will be talking about the future of publishing, on a panel moderated by the legendary Roger Black, is Kelly Doe, Art
Director at the New York Times. I … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday March 11, 2010
Last Friday, on my way to an opening in NoHo, I stopped to visit artist/illustrator and frequent DART contributor Fernanda Cohen on the job. She had mentioned a while back that she was doing a
mural project for a downtown restaurant and I wanted to se what was up. When I arrived at the dark entrance, her studio assistant, Manolo M., led me to … Read the full Story >>
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Fernanda Cohen Wednesday July 7, 2010
Animalistic, millions of lines, organic symmetry, sweet and savage, and static cannibals are the words I scribbled on a napkin as I stood in front of the current Barneys
New York windows with my mouth half open in awe. This is a one-of-a-kind creation by artist Dennis McNett, in collaboration with Barneys' legendary creative
director Simon Doonan: a feast of hectic colors, … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday November 3, 2010
It's official: The Honorable Mayor Michael Bloomberg has proclaimed the second week of November Illustration Week, so mark your calendar for
events starting on Thursday - and tell your clients, colleagues, and friends about it. A representative from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs will present the mayor's Proclamation at the
Society of Illustrators on Friday, November 5th at 5:00 pm.
Following is … Read the full Story >>
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Fernanda Cohen Friday April 29, 2011
Tristan Eaton, founder and director of Thunderdog Studios, is widely known for his eclectic murals, his popular lines of vinyl toys,
his ad campaigns for Puma, President Obama, Dell and Nike, his recent modeling experience with The Gap and Annie Leibovitz, and nothing less than for being the founding creative director of Kid
Robot. The credibility he's been able to build in the … Read the full Story >>
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Fernanda Cohen Thursday April 30, 2009
I've been hearing about Gary Baseman's upcoming carnivalesque exhibition for months now. This is not merely a bunch of paintings grouped together in a gallery but what promises to be an
unprecedented explosion of color, spiritual rites, sexy women in costume, live music, performers and sculptures from all over the world. "La Noche de la Fusion" (the night of fusion) is
storming into Corey … Read the full Story >>
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Fernanda Cohen Thursday October 9, 2008
Thomas Woodruff - a fine artist, an illustrator and the chairman of the undergraduate illustration department at the School of Visual Arts - is one of those men you don't forget. Not only because
of his tattooed arms and colorful attire, but mostly because of his words, which still echo in my head from my student days at SVA. Tom's new solo exhibition, The … Read the full Story >>
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Fernanda Cohen Friday April 24, 2009
I'm in the elevator, on my way to see Gary Taxali's solo exhibition, "Hindi Love Song," at Jonathan Levine Gallery in Chelsea, when Jonathan himself walks in with a Feelin' Fine Woop-Ass stick in
hand. He warns me that he uses this personal weapon, which was created by one of his gallery employees, to make sure that everyone behaves. I interpret this as a … Read the full Story >>
By Thursday September 28, 2006
WHAT IS "Blab!"? A better question would be: What is "Blab!" not? "Blab!" is neither a compilation of the best emerging talent, nor the conventional showcase for eye-candy images. "Blab!" is
certainly not the kind of book most art directors would refer to in their search for a safe illustrator for an assignment. If anything "Blab!" is all about excess. Each annual volume, now … Read the full Story >>
By Thursday July 24, 2008
Andrew Davis, the Detroit curator who can be found at AwwSweet, has done it again: Good Wood, his second skateboard art show has made it all the
way from his hometown to the Brooklyn art space, Third Ward. Inspired by the documentary feature film "Beautiful Losers," which focuses on the subcultures of skateboarding and graffiti, the exhibition
brings together 45 different artists who've … Read the full Story >>
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Fernanda Cohen Monday December 5, 2011
Miami is popular worldwide thanks to its year-round warm weather, its great beaches and intense nightlife, though Art Basel Miami Beach,
which ended yesterday, has managed to shift the city’s attention more towards the arts in the past decade. Celebrating its tenth anniversary this month, Art Basel
Miami gets enough national and international press to be known by pretty much anyone interested in … Read the full Story >>
By Wednesday January 3, 2007
The term "comics" has a rather broad definition today, and one that
expands even further through the first exhibition of African comic art in the United States, at The Studio Museum in Harlem. The work
featured in Africa Comics (on view through March 18, 2007) can be interpreted as documentary art, where format cedes its weight to content. The mostly colorful art found in … Read the full Story >>
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Fernanda Cohen Thursday June 18, 2009
The new exhibition opening at Sloan Fine Art this Saturday, called +2, is a summer gift of fun and value: The title for this group show is
inspired by its logistics: Alix Sloan, the gallery's owner, contacted 24 of her artists and asked each one to invite two artists of their choice to participate. Although there is no collective
theme, the 70-plus pieces on … Read the full Story >>
By Wednesday October 11, 2006
COMICS RARELY GO LIVE, and this fall seems to be the magical moment for New York aficionados to appreciate the real thing. The Fantagraphics 30-year retrospective exhibition at the Society of
Illustrators runs through October 21st. It features over 100 original pieces by dozens of artists published by Fantagraphics over the last three decades. The exquisite beauty of these
drawings gave me goose bumps … Read the full Story >>
By
Robert Newman Thursday April 28, 2016
Fernanda Cohen is a Buenos Aires-based illustrator who has spent considerable time in New York City. Cohen came to the States to study at the School of Visual Arts, and although she returned to Buenos
Aires 12 years later, she's a frequent visitor to NYC and her work appears in numerous American publications. Cohen uses pen, ink, and gauche to make vibrant, stylish artwork … Read the full Story >>
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Fernanda Cohen Thursday November 10, 2011
Wacko is La Luz de Jesus's home in LA's Los Feliz hood, right near Hollywood. The alternative gallery space in the back
of the store is known for showing mostly illustrators' art on its walls, having launched successful careers over the years. Some interesting examples of this include past solo shows of Rob
Clayton (1995 and ‘97), Eric White (1996), Joe Coleman (1991 and … Read the full Story >>
