Sandra Cohen
Dreamlike Hybrids
Sandra Cohen’s paintings and mixed media works explore the unstable territory between memory, music, science, and perception. Layering fragments of lyrics, abstracted landscapes, symbolic forms, and geometric structures, her work creates dreamlike environments that oscillate between humor, tension, and psychological reflection.
Through an intuitive process that moves between loose gesture and controlled mark-making, Cohen constructs visually rhythmic compositions that embrace contradiction—where chaos and order, abstraction and narrative, coexist simultaneously.
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Selected Works
Each work is a one-of-a-kind acrylic painting or mixed media composition on canvas, board, or wood panel. Click individual works for details or purchase.
Available works typically range from $600–$4,600.
About the Work
Cohen works primarily in acrylic and mixed media, creating layered compositions that combine abstract painting with fragments of recognizable imagery, language, and symbolic form. Her process shifts fluidly between wet and dry techniques, controlled geometry and spontaneous gesture, reflecting the conceptual dualities present throughout the work.
Music plays a central role in her practice, with references to songs, lyrics, and rhythm appearing throughout the paintings. Equally influential are concepts drawn from modern physics and systems of perception, resulting in works that suggest shifting realities and unstable narratives.
Her imagery often evokes fragmented landscapes, celestial phenomena, diagrams, flowers, figures, and coded visual structures. These elements emerge and dissolve within luminous fields of color, creating compositions that feel simultaneously atmospheric, cerebral, and emotionally charged.
Biography
Sandra Cohen is an American contemporary painter and mixed media artist. In addition to her visual art practice, she has worked as a performing musician and songwriter, an influence that continues to shape the rhythm and structure of her paintings.
Her work has been widely exhibited and is recognized for its fusion of abstraction, symbolism, music, and scientific inquiry. Working across painting and mixed media, Cohen creates psychologically resonant compositions that explore the instability of memory, perception, and meaning.
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