Abstract nominee

For over a year now, I have been making photographs of boat hulls sitting in their cradles in boatyards. The waterline - that border that floats between air and water - is often worn and encrusted with the evidence of the past season(s), and I have imagined landscape imagery encoded by that residue. The waterline is sometimes interrupted by drains and scupper holes from which the outflow leaves traces of various corrosives, rust, and pollutants disgorged from within. These images provide inescapable evidence of the downside of the sailor’s voyage on the sea. At the same time, the images provide icons which trigger the mind’s eye.

Biography:
Richard Alan Cohen lives and works in the South End of Boston and Litchfield County, Connecticut. He graduated from Bowdoin College where he co-majored in science and art, and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Throughout a career in biomedical research he kept in touch with his art through photography, oil and watercolor painting, and pottery. He is now a full-time landscape/cityscape/impressionist photographer. He is a juried member of Galatea Gallery (Boston, MA) and Gallery on the Green (Canton, CT) where he has had recent solo shows. He has received jurors’ awards in group shows at the Robert Levy Gallery of the New Hampshire Artists’ Association and the Westport (MA) Art Group, received Honorable Mentions from the international Neutral Density Awards, and participated in group shows at the Griffin Museum of Photography, Davis-Orton (Hudson, NY) and Ashton Galleries (San Diego, CA). He received intensive Photoshop and digital printing training from William Morse and is a student of the Photography Atelier led by Meg Birnbaum at the Griffin Museum as well as workshops conducted by John Paul Caponigro and Seth Resnick.