Sylvia Cohen @ artavita

Sylvia Cohen

Location: Canada

I am a Montreal based artist who combines a love of painting and fashion to give life to my images. My obsession is with current culture and trend and I like to sprinkle that with a touch of drama.

Color originates from elements in nature and when used to decorate the body, it becomes more than a hue, it’s a history.

My paintings draw on the symbiotic relationship between fashion and the mundane, exploring the 'un-reality' where excess becomes fashionable and fashion excessive. The surfaces of fashion are used as a means of seduction; they appear highly plasticized, saturated in gloss and permeated by sensuality. To confront oppositions which are common in contemporary fashion advertising, I deconstruct, reconstruct and abstract these surfaces; turning commerce into critique, realism into revelation.

Portfolio:

Faces

Excavating imagery from an array of sources, I continually draw from photographs as well as my ever-expanding collection of source material. Scanning my photos and manipulating them to focus on specific details is the beginning of my process. I love to play with light, color and orientation; the negative space becomes just as intriguing to me as the paint applied on the canvas.
Color originates from elements in nature and when used to decorate the body, it becomes more than a hue, it’s a history.

Red “Red”