Noted Exhibitions: "Unbroken" at Heidi Cho Gallery
by Mina Takahashi, Hand Papermaking Magazine Winter 2006


For this exhibition, Cohen showed recent sculptures, what she calls her "collection of survivors." Cohen's quirky sense of composition and unusual combination of materials – found objects such as egg beaters, sneakers, belts and kitchen implements fused to hand-cast glass, abaca paper membranes and chunky coatings of cotton pulp – reveal to us the frailty and resourcefulness of human life. This cast of characters is diverse in scale: wall-mounted, resting on tabletops, standing on the floor. They are lightly veiled, some unclothed, exposing their wounds yet also showing us their perseverance through some unnamed peril or lingering grief.