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Elaine Lustig Cohen statement | biography | links + press

born Jersey City, New Jersey 1927

EDUCATION

1945-46 Sophie Newcomb College, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
1947-48 BFA, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
1950-67 Graphic Designer

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2002 Tea House Suite, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY

1999 Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY

1997 Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY

1995
Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York, NY

 

1985

Exit Art, New York, NY

Janus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

 

1982

Carson Sapiro Gallery, Denver, CO

Gloria Luria Gallery, Bay Harbor Islands, Miami, FL

Janus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

 

1981 Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY

 

1980

Modernism Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Janus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

 

1979 Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY

 

1978 Galerie Carl van der Voort, Basel, Swizerland

 

1975 Galerie Denise Rene, New York, NY

 

1973 John Bernard Myers Gallery, New York, NY

 

1972 John Bernard Myers Gallery, New York, NY

 

1970 John Bernard Myers Gallery, New York, NY

 


GROUP EXHIBITIONS

 

2001

Poster for "Meis in Berlin", Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

Designing Identity: Typefaces as Human Experience, Bard Graduate Center, New York, NY

Rupture & Revision: Collage in America, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY

 

2000

Women Designers in the USA, 1900-2000: Diversity and Difference, The Bard Graduate Center, New York, NY

Mondiale Echo's (Global Echos), Mondriaanhuis, Amersfoort, Netherlands

 

1998

The Re-Associated Image, Flanders Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, MN

And I Quote, Mary Delahoyd Gallery, New York, NY in association with Trust

 

1997

Photo/Collage/Applied, Penn State University, Edwin Zoller Gallery

Eye of the Beholder-photographs from the Avon Collection, International Center for Photography, New York, NY

 

1996

The Avant-Garde Letterhead + Letters from the Avant Garde, Cooper Hewitt Museum +AIGA, New York

American Typography in the1960's, GGG Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Making Pictures: Women and Photography: 1975-Now, Nicole Klagsburn Gallery, New York, NY

 

1995

Out of Wood, Rachel Adler Gallery, New York, NY

Reconstructivism, Space 504, New York, NY

 

1994

Fractured Identity: Cut and Paste, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY

Boxes, Ubu Gallery, New York, NY

 

1992 American Academy, Rome

 

1991

In Addition to Paint: Masters of Collage, LA Boetie Gallery, New York, NY

Geometric Abstraction, Greene Gallery, Miami Beach FL

Photomontage/Photocollage: The Changing Picture 1920-1989, Jan Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

 

1989 Graphic Design in America: A Visual History, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN

 

1988 In Memory of John Bernard Meyers, Kouros Gallery, New York, NY

 

1985

Adornments, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York, NY

Hartmann Center Gallery, Bradley University, Peoria, IL

Imagenes en Cajas, Mueso Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City

Surplus, Exit Art, New York, NY

An Affair of the Heart: Artists's Valentines, Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY

 

1984

Drawings: New Dimensions, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY

Watercolors: A Contemporary Survey, San Diego State University Art Gallery, San Diego, CA

Objects by Artists: Ordinary and Extraordinary Uses, Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY

 

1983

The Artist and the Quilt, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX

On the Leading Edge, Cross-Currents in Contemporary Art of the Eighties, The General Electric Corporate Art Collection, Fairfield, CT

 

1981

One Hundred and Eight Projects by Artists and Architects, Cooper Union, New York, NY

Paper, Getler Paul Gallery, New York, NY

Gloria Luria Gallery, Bay Harbour Islands, Miami, FL

 

1980

Geometric Abstraction, Bard College, Annandale-on-the-Hudson, NY

The Constructivists Spirit, Janus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Gloria Luria Gallery, Bay Harbour Islands, Miami, FL

Working with Bummyhuss Paper, Nielson Gallery, Boston, MA

Eight Painters, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ

Janus in San Diego, San Diego State University Art Gallery, San Diego, CA

 

1979 Christmas Card, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

 

AWARDS

 

1997 International Association of Art Critics Award, Best Show by an Emerging Artist 1996-97, Staatgalerie, Stuttgart. Magie der Zahl (Magic of Numbers)

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

Art In America, September, 2000.

Ellen Lupton and Elaine Lustig Cohen, Catalogue, Princeton Architectural Press, 1996.

The New York Observer, "Experimenting Women", April 3, 1995.

On the Marionette, Heindrich Von Kleist, limited edition book, The Kaldewey Press, Poestenkill, 1998.


The Geometry of Seeing 1970-2007 [view images]


Alphabet 2005-2006 [view images]


Palladio Vignole 2005-2006 [view images]


Signscapes 2004 [view images]


Tea House Suite [view images]