Barbara Cohen studied at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Tufts University and Oxford University. She has taught at the Worcester Art Museum, Lawrence Academy and Boston Center for the Arts. Her work can be found in many prestigious private and corporate collections including those of the Polaroid Corporation and the Boston Public Library.

Artist’s Statement
Throughout my 25 year career, I have worked with 35mm film along side my abstract paintings and sculpture. For the past ten years, I have worked on abstract methods to create photographic images that appear painterly. Using SX 70 and 600 Plus Polaroid film, I manipulate the images with a pointed instrument as the film is developing. I push the image further by loosely oil painting onto parts of the image.

My book, Dog in the Dunes, is a series of forty painted Polaroids of my black Labrador during an artist residency in a dune shack on Cape Cod.

My work now includes collaged photographs. The photographs are taken, cut, laid out and pasted to create a larger photograph. I am currently working on a new book, Family Photos and Friends, of collaged paintings of dogs in humorous settings.