Sausalito Artist Claudia Cohen has been creating since early years.

After studies at the Corcoran School of Art and George Washington University, in Washington, DC she obtained her Bachelor’s of art at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston in conjunction with Tufts University.

At the time and for many years her focus was in sculpture. Now it’s figurative and narrative painting, with the help of studies with COM’s acclaimed teacher, Chester Arnold.

Her creations are multilayered and reflect her life and inspirations. Renaissance portraiture also underpins her work. Claudia takes her audience on a narrative journey filled with interpretative reflections and fantasies.

Her work has been exhibited in museums and galleries across the US and internationally. She has received numerous grants and awards, including the George Sugarman Foundation, and several Marin Arts Council Grants. Her painting “Nevermore” was part of the 2024 DeYoung Museum Open.

Like Beauty, truth lies in the eye of the beholder – and in the mind of the artist. The bronze and ceramic creations of sculptor and painter, Claudia Cohen are not realistic in any strict sense of the term, but they are precise renditions of her imagination; engaging articulations of the ruminations of her subconscious. With her dazzling style of meticulous detail and feeling for form, the work brings to life a magical cast of characters – human, animal, and are a fantastical progeny from a different and inviting universe.

In the book Humor in Art, Nickolas Roulks described the work as Comic Surrealism which aptly sums up the artist’s feel for humor and pathos. Magic Realism is another term often used to characterize her narrative creations. There are few artists today who inhabit such an intriguing unified private world and have such an immediate gift in of inviting everyone else into it…