Title: 3-N-1

Medium: Bronze

Date: 2020

3-N-1 is part of a series of editions made with Ox-Bow faculty whose classes were canceled due to the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. PPP money was distributed in lieu of teaching contracts for orginal editions that in turn could help raise money for Ox-Bow. 

About the Artist

Abigail Lucien (they/she, b. 1992) is an interdisciplinary artist raised in Cap-Haïtien, Haiti and the northeast coast of Florida. They hold a BFA from Florida State University and an MFA in Printmaking from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.  

Working in metal, casting, poetry, print, video, and sound, Lucien’s practice looks at ways cultural identities and inherited colonial structures transmit to the body and psyche. Part familiar, part foreign, Lucien’s works employ an architectural vernacular – challenging systems of assimilation through material and asking what it means for the body to empathize with a place. The works foreground their Haitian-American heritage by addressing notions of visibility, authenticity, and hybridity as they relate to a multicultural queer identity. 

Lucien was named the 2020 Harpo Emerging Artist Fellow and is a recipient of a 2020-2021 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Professional Fellowship. Their work has exhibited at museums and institutions such as MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, New York, Atlanta Contemporary in Atlanta, GA., Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Museum of Fine Arts in Tallahassee, FL, Woman Made Gallery in Chicago, IL, as well as High Tide Gallery, Vox Populi Gallery, and The Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia, PA.  

Title: The Ox-Bow Portfolio

Medium: editioned digital print on archival paper; edition of 20

Dims: 16 x 20"

Year: 2021

Printed by: DOCUMENT

The Ox-Bow Portfolio, contains 3 vibrant prints of portrait drawings completed when Bradley Cohen was in-residence. Melissa, CJ, and Laurel are each a seated artist at rest and in dialogue with Bradley Cohen, representing one of the most important aspects of artist residencies, and Ox-Bow’s culture in particular: the building of community through conversation.

Bradley Cohen says: “You’re investing in an alternative arts future when you invest in Ox-Bow… I think the culture and structure [of Ox-Bow] encourages open dialogues and self-questioning and gives itself the permission to always change, adapt, and grow.”

Alex Bradley Cohen is a Chicago based painter that utilizes portraiture to visualize the push and pull of identity and interpersonal relationships. Working with acrylic paint on canvas, the artist depicts friends, family members, and himself in scenes that foreground everyday moments. Materializing from personal photographs and memories rather than direct observation, each painting serves as an exercise in world building, while emphasizing the interiority of his subjects. 

About the Artist:

Alex Bradley Cohen (b. 1989) lives and works in Chicago. He was recently included in Triple: Alex Bradley Cohen, Louis Fratino, and Tschabalala Self, at the University Art Museum at the University of Albany, New York. He has held solo and two-person exhibitions at The Luggage Store, San Francisco; Mana Contemporary, Chicago; and Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, among others. Cohen has shown in group exhibitions at The Studio Museum of Harlem, New York; The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago; Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, Illinois; Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, New York; and The Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles. He is an alumnus of the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture and was an artist-in-residence at the Ox-Bow School of Art.