Fairest of all Painting

Andrea Mindell Cohen works across disciplines combining printmaking, drawing, painting, and textiles to create immersive installations. Through her work, she seeks to challenge the traditional identities and gender roles ingrained in the Sephardic (Spanish/Jewish) culture, and pursues to construct new meaning in the images she creates Her explorations involve collecting the origin images as an integral part of her process; Using alternative forms of printmaking through pigment transfers, lithography on varieties of fabric and paper. She frequently integrates her own photography documenting people along with old family photos and found images. Her practice centers around generations of women in ornate traditional wear, prints and textiles of North African and Middle Eastern cultures as part of her cultural memory.