Margery Cohen: Handing It Over. By Sheilagh Casey
We could all use a new friend or pet, or maybe a real-life pocket monster. Even a rival or enemy. Don’t worry too much about forming relationships, because it’s really easy—instant, even—to acquire one if you spend a little.
Margery Cohen, a Monmouth County native and a widely traveled artist, will be showing a collection of her clay creations—or creatures—at the Oyster Point’s Small Works show. The show runs Saturday and Sunday, with different artists each day. A lot of them. Margery’s there on Sunday.
If you take a shine, or another kind of special relationship, to these small beings, pick up one or more. They warm in your hand. And find a place in your heart.
Margery Cohen’s work has been shown at the San Francisco Art Institute, the Oakland Museum, Avery Fisher Gallery at Lincoln Center, the Monmouth Museum, Parlor Gallery in Asbury Park, and elsewhere. She works in painting and drawing as well as ceramics. You may have met her at her day job, sharpening knives at Chelsea Market in NYC.
Her method of working is largely intuitive. She says of her process, “About 12 years ago I decided to work in clay because I was doing paintings of imaginary sculptures. I work in a stream-of-conscious manner, each line, shape, dictates the next step and I keep working until I feel the painting or sculpture is complete. It’s as if the work comes from my hands instead of my head.”
Straight from her hands to yours.
It runs from 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
