Nancy Cohen

Nancy Cohen is an artist based in Brooklyn, NY. She creates works with glass and handmade paper informed by particle physics and mathematics, often exploring human impact on waterways and wetlands in urban environments.

Cohen's work is rooted in particle physics, mathematics, and chemistry. She works with glass and handmade paper for their transformative qualities, their potential for translucency, and their ability to integrate structure and surface simultaneously. Drawn to water and waterways surrounding urban areas, Cohen is interested in the ways communities and industries develop around them and the ongoing ways we impact each other. She sees places like the Hackensack River wetlands as "isolated puddles of the organic in a deluge of the human-made." She recently collaborated with writers, composers, and video artists on "Once She Dries," a narrative installation about coral reefs and climate change that has traveled to museums in Taiwan. She is currently collaborating with glass artist Anna Boothe on research about southern New Jersey's glass industry history and its relationship to local rivers while in residence at WheatonArts in Millville.