Gili Cohen

I see my artworks as multidimensional/multifaceted. In my art, I aspire to capture the simultaneous experience of being. Something that can exist in art, but I feel can never be fully expressed in text, due to the linear nature of language. Nevertheless, I will try. I paint and make art nonstop throughout most of the day. My art is an internal conversation with myself, as well as an ongoing dialogue with art and its complexity. Material, form, content, and image – all come together in artworks that are multilayered and rich. Sometimes like an erupting geyser – an explosion or torrent, though not one of destruction but rather a force of flow, growth, and vitality. My works follow several predominant styles, in which there is an ever-shifting balance between shape and line and between image and abstraction. For me, the image is formed from a subconscious tangle, while at the same time, it also disintegrates into that abstract tangle. On the one hand, I feel that painting leads me and to a large extent also reveals itself before me. On the other hand, I have created entire series based on research I conducted on various writers, musicians, questions of gender, and more.

Gili Cohen was born in 1968, and lives and work in Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel. She holds a bachelor degree in Fine Art from the University of Haifa (1994), and studied in several private frameworks with prominent Israeli artists. Cohen works predominantly with painting and drawing in mixed media on various surfaces, alongside staged but untamed photography. Her works are an explosion of color and lines, woven into a powerful force of nature. This is an expanding tangle of figurative shapes that become abstract and vice versa. Her works contain figurative references to the presence of a body or different elements drawn from nature and culture.

1995 - Group exhibition. Haifa university's gallery.
2001 - Single exhibition. "Beinenu" gallery. Haifa.
2008 - Single exhibition. "Einav" center gallery. Tel-Aviv.
2009 - Street art event. Haifa.
2010 - Group exposure. 45 gallery. Tel-Aviv.
2010 - Group exhibition. Kishon gallery. Tel-Aviv.
2011 - Group exhibition. Kishon gallery. Tel-Aviv.
2011 - Single exhibition. "Einav" center gallery. Tel-Aviv.
2017 - Single exhibition. "Einav" center gallery. Tel-Aviv.