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Thu Feb 7 - Sat Mar 1

Bruce Cohen

Recent Paintings


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Location
Date and Time
John Berggruen Gallery
228 Grant Street, 2nd/3rd Floors
San Francisco, CA 94108 map
cross street: Post St.
district: Downtown/Financial District

Thu Feb 7 (9:30am-5:30pm)
Fri Feb 8 (9:30am-5:30pm)
Sat Feb 9 (10:30am-5pm)
Mon Feb 11 (9:30am-5:30pm)
Tue Feb 12 (9:30am-5:30pm)

Description
Bruce Cohen is often linked to the Contemporary Realism movement that emerged as a reaction to the increasingly popular abstraction of Modernism in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Realism, in general, indicates a strong attachment to the depiction of life as it is, without embellishment or subjective interpretation - and while, aesthetically speaking, the work of Bruce Cohen fits nicely within this genre, there exists inherent characteristics in his paintings that defy such particular categorization. This is due in large part to Cohen’s life-long interests in Dutch still-life and Surrealism (particularly the work of Magritte, Dali, de Chirico, and Ernst), and his early study of Indian miniature paintings (which, according to Cohen taught him "order, compartmentalization, and love of surface decoration and special ambiguities, without the normal restrictions of Western Art")...