Description
Sculptural Mirror by Michael Cohen (ca. 1970, Signed). Ceramic mirror sculpture with wave design. Stamped on the back with the artist's name & location. in very good condition with some wear conducive with age. Size: 26"H x 16.25"W x 3"D Michael Cohen 1936 Born, Boston, Massachusetts EDUCATION 1957 BFA Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, Massachusetts 1957 Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Dear Isle, Maine Although most of Michael Cohen's work is functional pottery, at the age of 59 he made a series of sculptural figures influenced by images drawn from Egyptian art. His interest in clay emerged from a required class in ceramics with Charles Abbott during his sophomore year at Mass Art. Abbott was a production potter & Cohen found he liked the repetition involved in making functional work.In 1961 Cohen opened his studio in Newton, Massachusetts making stoneware tablewares and, occasionally, sculptures. Shortly after, he moved to a larger shared space with fellow potter William Wyman, Herring Run Pottery in East Weymouth. Since 1973, Cohen has been working at a large studio in Amherst, Massachusetts focused primarily on tile making with his son. in 1997 he designed a line of tiles that became so popular that he stopped making any other work. Cohen & his former wife, Harriet, were the first wholesalers of studio pottery to have an order blank, resulting in a major shift in the way buyers purchased crafts. Public Collections deCordova Museum & Sculpture Park, Lincoln, Massachusetts Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, Massachusetts Jack Lenor Collection, Longhouse Foundation, Easthampton, New York Museum of Arts & Design, New York, New York Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York Objects USA, Johnson Collection, Racine, Wisconsin Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, Kansas Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota Michael Cohen | American, B. 1936 Sculptural Ceramic Mirror | Ca. 1970, Signed
