Andrea Mindell Cohen
Barcelona
Ex - fashion and textile designer, turned multidisciplinary artist combining, painting, collage, various types of printmaking, and textile installations.
Message
Andrea Mindell Cohen is a Spanish/Canadian multidisciplinary artist born in Vancouver,B.C, based in Barcelona. She worked as a fashion, textile designer and owner of her design-label in the fashion industry for many years in Los Angeles. Later she moved to Barcelona where Andrea worked designing graphics and textile-prints for various local and international big fashion brands.
Subsequently she transformed her art designs into backgrounds and installations for stands at fashion and textile fairs such as Première Vision in Paris and Bread and Butter in Barcelona and Berlin. Andrea combines, collage, drawing, painting, photography and various techniques of printmaking as well digital and hand-printed textiles to create immersive installations.
Cohen´s art is deeply inspired by stories of women, combined with traditional and contemporary cultural influences from her Spanish/Judeo-Moroccan ancestry. She is interested in the connection between cultural heritage and personal identity, her practice draws from nuanced, gender, family, religion and personal experiences.
Cohen received her BFA from Otis/Parsons College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, Ca. and a degree in fashion-textile design from the International Academy of Design and Technology in Toronto, Canada, along with her studies abroad in art history and photography at Lorenzo de Medici School in Florence, Italy. She continued her art practice upon immigrating to Tel Aviv, Israel at Zaritsky Artists House of Printmaking and Surface Design. Three years later Andrea moved back to Barcelona where she took on a studio-residency program in lithography and printmaking at Quadrat 9 taller litografia gravat, Barcelona.
Statement
Andrea Mindell Cohen works across disciplines combining; printmaking, drawing, painting,and textiles.Through her work she focuses on women's stories, reclaiming female expression within a patriarchal culture, combined with traditional and contemporary cultural influences drawn from her own Spanish and Judeo-Moroccan ancestry.
Cohen is interested in the connection between cultural heritage and personal identity her work draws from nuanced, gender, family and religion. Exploration and research are fundamental parts of her process. It involves collecting images, using alternative forms of printmaking through photomontages of pigment transfers, lithography, mixed media collages on a variety of fabrics, paper and other surfaces.
She integrates her own photography, documenting people along with mixing old family photos, found images and herself into digital prints and overlaying hand prints on stained textiles to create immersive installations. She frequently integrates her own photography documenting people along with old family photos and found images as part of her cultural memory.