Lynne Cohen

Lynne Cohen

BornNationalityBased In
1944American/CanadianN/A
Biography

For more than thirty years, Lynne Cohen has photographed interior spaces without characters: laboratories, spas, waiting rooms or training rooms. Their decoration, often very kitschy, can be comical, even if it helps to reinforce their intriguing, even worrying aspect. The rigorous framing, at the same distance, and the light that highlights materials and colours give these images a constructed appearance. Focusing on the imaginary element of places, sometimes with ill-defined uses, Lynne Cohen suggests a social control that is exercised diffusely. ...

Selected Artworks
Classroom
Lynne CohenClassroom, 1985
110.5 x 128 x 5cm
Classroom
Lynne CohenClassroom, 1991
120 x 139 x 5cm
Laboratory
Lynne CohenLaboratory, 1990
139 x 170 x 5cm
Factory
Lynne CohenFactory, 1994
111 x 129 x 4cm
Spa
Lynne CohenSpa, 1999
109 x 130.5 x 4cm
Lobby, Pennsylvania
Awards
Sobey Award Longlist, National Gallery of Canada2004
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