User:Jessica Cohen - New York

Jessica Cohen is a visual artist and actor. She graduated from Parsons School of Design in New York City in winter of ‘95. She is into drawing and painting and hopes to teach. Life and Work: Jessica Cohen was born in New York City. She moved with her parents at age of three to Southern California - Palm Springs in the Coachella Valley. She lived there for a short time (about six months) before moving back east to Long Island, Nassau County near the beach. She lived there (for a few years but) also when older at the home of her maternal grandparents - several languages spoken here. After her Senior group show at Parsons NYC, Ms. Cohen is continuing to work in visual arts in various areas including studios and henna events (such as high-school Grad Nights) in the Bay Area where she now resides part-time. She hopes to show and sell more art internationally. She likes to draw figures - nudes, still life, complex dramatic situations, reportage, collage, and editorial illustrations. She paints in a modern, expressive style and admires such artists as Henri Matisse, Franz Kline, and Max Beckmann.