Artist Statement
Creating fine art gives expression to the transformative power of Beauty.

Beauty awakens within us a sense that greater harmony and balance can be achieved in a seemingly chaotic Universe. It also transports us beyond ourselves, confirming that Creativity renders Evolution irrefutable.

My work begins with a search, rooted in a celebration of Life, where the wonder of organic processes are revealed through the interplay of movement, form, color, and relationships. Instead of emphasizing fragmented or dissonant perceptions--no matter how poignant, or fashionable, or even unconventional--I attempt to embrace, penetrate and then transcend polarities or opposing forces. I am constantly overcoming Resistance, both within the sculptural medium and myself. As I portray the result in a three-dimensional form, genuine shifts in perspective occur.

To venerate Beauty--as an embodiment of a Process of Growth--in an inert object of stone is exhilarating.  My hope is to share this with the observer.
Michael Cohen was born in Trenton, New Jersey. He graduated from the University of California at Berkeley and the California Western School of Law. He became a sculptor in 1984 under the tutelage of a master stone carver, Anthony Amato, of Vista, California. The artist maintains his studio in Nicasio, California, approximately 20 miles north of San Francsico.

Exhibitions:

1985-86:  Art Institute of Southern California, Laguna Beach, CA

1988-93:  Roger's Gardens, Newport Beach, CA

1994-98:  Concordia University, Irvine, CA

1998-99:  Mill Valley Sculpture Garden, Mill Valley, CA

1999-2000: Sausalito Garden Art Gallery, Sausalito, CA

Spring, 2000: Marin Society of Artists, juried show

March, 2001: Art With A Heart 2001, Live Auction, benefit for Ritter House(juried)

March-April, 2001: 525 Market Street, San Francisco, CA

March, 2002: Marin Society of Artists, 2002 Open Craft & Sculpture Show, juried show, Marin Art & Garden Center, Ross, CA

Present: working on a commission of three large limestone stones for a biodynamic farm in Boonville, CA
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