Look back on the exhibitions presented by the Cohen Gallery.
Celebrating the work of twenty-five graphic design interns who created exhibition graphics for the Fosdick-Nelson and Cohen Galleries from 2001 to 2024 this exhibition features 30 framed marquee po...
View Full GalleryEarly memories of playing in the mud, sand. Play-Dog and flour dough connect us to clay. These memories are what shape us as makers and continue to pull us back now to porcelain, terracotta and sto...
View Full GalleryAlfred is home to many artists and artisans who have put down roots in our magic valley. The Cohen Center Gallery, a historic and intimate setting on Main Street in Alfred, presents an exhibition o...
View Full GalleryShowcasing artwork by first-year graduate students studying in the School of Art and Design who are rounding the corner into their second and final year. The exhibition will feature small works in ...
View Full GalleryThis exhibition features work by seven recently hired tenure-track professors: Rebecca Arday, Paul Briggs, Nicki Green, Stephanie Hanes, Anthony Nguyen in collaboration with Taryn Cassella, Kelsey ...
View Full GalleryFive accomplished potters and alumni from the School of Art and Design, Rebecca Chappell (MFA 08), Sanam Emami (MFA 02), Ryan Greenheck (MFA 04), Alleghany Meadows (MFA 99), and Kyla Toomey (BFA 04...
View Full GalleryHope's formalist paintings are constructed with simple, direct color forms. Focusing on color, line, and light allow the artist to create a place for the subject to live. She plays on the geometry ...
View Full GalleryCentral Receiving features new paintings by alum artist, Trevor Bennett (MFA 2012). In his exhibition statement Bennett gives insight into his title "I like to pretend that my studio is the embodim...
View Full GalleryFitting In and Standing Out showcases a comprehensive sampling of Monica Duncan and Lara Odell's work, starting with the collaborative pieces they created while at Alfred (they met in 2000, when Mo...
View Full GalleryThis community project invites anyone who would like to participate to submit an 11" x 14" drawing to the Cohen Gallery on the theme of Reconnection. The drawings will be in conversation with the ...
View Full GalleryIn this playful and fun filled exhibition member of the community collaborated in the making of Exquisite Corpse drawings. Exquisite Corpse is a game in which a participant makes a drawing on a she...
View Full GalleryIkebana and Ziggurat are both distinct formalist structures. The work of Ellen Bahr and Kathleen McShane can be located within a conceptual ikebana where space is the prominent compositional elemen...
View Full GalleryThis whimsical show featuring Yessiree Bob: a photo-graphic collection of Bob signs by Judy Livingston, and bobble head sculptures by Jesse "So Handsome" Plass, is the perfect show to keep your sum...
View Full GalleryFluorescent Dirt featuring the work of AU alumni and current faculty Patrick Brennan, and artist/collaborator Grace Sachi Troxell, will be on display at the Cohen Gallery June 8 - July 22, with a r...
View Full GallerySczerbaniewicz's series of installation works investigates the interplay between the rational and the irrational as illustrated in three interactive spatial vignettes. The conceptual matrix behind ...
View Full GalleryWon't You be my Neighbor? was conceived by Stevenson, who wanted to break down the divide between Alfred University/ Alfred State College and permanent Alfred community members through the making o...
View Full GalleryAbstract artist and AU alum Jonathan Faber will show new paintings and drawings in this solo exhibition. For Faber "painting is a physical thinking process—a way of getting involved in a kind of i...
View Full GalleryVictoria's studio practice stems from her query of autobiography and the investigation of the female narrative within her Hmong-American perspective. Victoria's observations from cultural, bodily, ...
View Full GalleryOpen Space features the work of four artists Adrian Aguilera, Tatiana Florival, Claire Hu, and Jacoub Reyes who came to Alfred this summer to participate in the first BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, Peop...
View Full GalleryLadia is fascinated by the artificial world created by contemporary society and is interested in the actions we take to make our lives happier through consumption and social pressure. She observes ...
View Full GalleryDuring the height of Puerto Rican migration to the United States, mostly during the 1950's and 1960's, a new term came about to describe those of this Diaspora - Nuyorican. Originally meant to be a...
View Full GalleryThe exhibition came about during a conversation between sculptors, Coral Lambert and Cynthia Handel when they were checking in on each other in early April 2020. They were discussing how the pandem...
View Full GalleryThis exhibition highlights the collaborative prints produced in cahoots with and printed by Tim Pauszek. The collection features works by SoAD faculty as well as IEA visiting artists who typically ...
View Full GalleryAn exhibit featuring the work of several artists we recently welcomed into the School of Art & Design as faculty members.
View Full GalleryJudith Olson Gregory's layered wall hangings, constructed from tea bags and other delicate fibers, embedded text and layered patterns, reference iconic women and ask poignant, philosophical questions.
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