Barbara E. Cohen works with a balsa-like material she found in Viet Nam. Over the last few years she has been obsessively cutting the cork-like pieces into slivers and chunks and gluing them together into the most peaceful and moving forms. Barbara’s work speaks of grace. It comes from the softness of her soul. In a sea of noise, disharmony and war, Barbara Cohen seeks to take us to a plane of harmony, showing us the power of the simple-repeated and molded—until it sings. She has taken the opportunity of this exhibition to create an eight foot circular form whose mass appears to have no mass, as it seems poised to fly away. It fills the room with light and magic.
Marian Roth , curator
