JAI Featured Artist/April 2023
Raphaele Cohen-Bacry
JAI Featured Artist
Raphaele Cohen-Bacry
April 2023
JAI Featured Artist
Raphaele Cohen-Bacry
April 2023
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I guess you could say I am an eclectic artist, but interdisciplinary sounds so much better. Painting is my medium of predilection, however I also work across video, assemblage and sculptural installation. I have been particularly interested in collage for the past several years and it paid off since it changed my approach to painting in a surprising way. Here comes the “make-believe collage” large paintings, in which I reunite all the different fragments of a collage within a single medium and surface, the paint and the canvas.
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I guess you could say I am an eclectic artist, but interdisciplinary sounds so much better. Painting is my medium of predilection, however I also work across video, assemblage and sculptural installation. I have been particularly interested in collage for the past several years and it paid off since it changed my approach to painting in a surprising way. Here comes the “make-believe collage” large paintings, in which I reunite all the different fragments of a collage within a single medium and surface, the paint and the canvas.
Night Flight, 2022
Acrylic on canvas, 63″ x 63″
In Your Arms, 2022
Hand cut collage on paper, 10″ x 13″
Flowers of Spleen, 2022
Acrylic on canvas, 60″ x 60″
The paintings become metaphors for healing what was broken and for offering comfort and a source of energy. And who does not need that?
I am originally from Paris, France and I permanently moved to the United States in 2003. I am very happy I did, but that does not mean I don’t miss my home country.
The paintings become metaphors for healing what was broken and for offering comfort and a source of energy. And who does not need that?
I am originally from Paris, France and I permanently moved to the United States in 2003. I am very happy I did, but that does not mean I don’t miss my home country.
Thank you!
About JAI
Jewish Artists Initiative (JAI) is a Southern California organization committed to supporting Jewish artists and arts professionals. JAI aspires to be an agent of transformative change by organizing provocative exhibitions and thoughtful programs promoting diverse dialogue about Jewish identity and experiences. Founded in 2004, JAI remains committed to fostering Jewish culture in our community and beyond.
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JAI was conceived by the Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles in 2004. It was originally in partnership with the University of Southern California Casden Institute and the USC Roski School of Art and Design. For many years we have been under the fiscal sponsorship of the Center for Jewish Culture and Creativity. Members include primarily artists, as well as curators and art historians based in Southern California. The artists go through a jurying process to be admitted as members.
We have collaborated with a great range of Southern California institutions including American Jewish University, Hebrew Union College, UCLA Hillel and USC Hillel as well as a variety of art galleries and public spaces. We have also worked and exhibited in institutions in other parts of the United States and Israel such as the Jewish Art Salon, Hebrew Union College, New York, the New York UJA and the Jerusalem Biennale.
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