Intimate Offerings, 2019

Genevieve Cohn  

Genevieve Cohn grew up in rural Vermont and received her MFA in Painting from Indiana University. She has attended residencies at the Fiore Art Center, The Vermont Studio Center, The Ragdale Foundation, and AiRGentum. She is the winning recipient of the Hopper Prize. Her work has been featured in New American Paintings, Create Magazine, Art Maze Magazine. Genevieve has exhibited work in New York City, Boston, Chicago, and London, among other cities. She is currently living and working in Boston, MA where she teaches at Wellesley College.

Artist Statement

My paintings project possible communities of women by drawing from both a historical and imaginative past, present, and future. Utilizing imagery and ideologies drawn from The Women's Land Army from World War I and World War II, as well as female separatist communities, fairy tales and literary fiction, my paintings acknowledge and reflect a world where female power is derived from collaboration, self-endowed agency and connection with the natural world. I consider ideas of collection, adornment, beauty and choice as the figures within the worlds of my work construct spaces that engage ideas of ritual and practice.