Genevieve Cohn

American artist Genevieve Cohn creates powerful compositions that explore female communities and collective strength. Drawing inspiration from historical and literary sources, her work imagines a world where women derive power from collaboration, self-endowed agency, and connection with nature. The balance between the oftentimes heavy composition with the playful colour palette is done intentionally to explore the duality of light and dark energies. This makes the works complex and complicated, a reflection of the world she is creating them in.

Cohn's women are strong and capable; they navigate, fix, and hold together the strange worlds they inhabit. They pull their worlds together with string and mold mountains with their bare hands. They are depicted as warm and loving, but also strong and solid. The warm colour palette used to paint them shows Cohn sees them as super-human, keeping the world she has created turning with their power.