Nancy Cohen

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Confluence a collaboration between Anna Boothe and Nancy Cohen about glass, time and rivers.

Confluence is Anna Boothe and Nancy Cohen’s recent collaborative project whose three-pronged focus integrates the ecological-historical importance and over-time transformation of Southern NJ and South Eastern PA's waterways with the region’s centuries-old glass industry, with reference to colonial glassware and contemporary scientific apparatus production.

In response to our investigations, we created hundreds of elements made from recycled glass, fabrication that was initiated during our 2024 residency at WheatonArts (the site of a former 19^th century glass factory) in Millville, NJ. These parts were assembled into sculptures that reflect the utilitarian forms and palette of 18^th-19^th century glass in combination with repurposed, altered scientific apparatus, while simultaneously paying homage to the multi-textured, sandy, reedy environment of the local waterways. The overall body of work harkens to an awareness of systems and integrated connections, in some cases to mysterious scientific experiments – semi-functional, yet imaginary – and evokes a sinuous, river-like, yet regenerative sense of time and movement that is not necessarily linear in the end.

Upcoming exhibitions:

September 9 - October 30, 2026, Robert Lehman Gallery at UrbanGlass,

647 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY.  https://urbanglass.org/events

Opening reception: September 9th, 2026 6-9pm.

January -March 2027, Stockton University Art Gallery, Galloway, New Jersey