Genevieve Cohn - "In Defense of Tenderness"

 SAN FRANCISCO—Hashimoto Contemporary is pleased to present In Defense of Tenderness, a solo exhibition by Boston-based artist Genevieve Cohn. Each of her vibrant paintings are phrases in a continuous narrative filled with mythic, playful women weaving together an imagined history and future. 

The communities of women that inhabit Cohn’s paintings are at once folkloric and grounded in reality, taking on a sense of magical realism. The chromatic figures tend the land around them and one another to form an imagined world informed by The Women’s Land Army, female separatist  communities, fairy tales and literary fiction. 

Cohn writes of the recent paintings, “Figures move through layered environments, often engaged in building fences, planting gardens, and crafting protective structures. In the periphery —glimpses of unease that echo the instability of our current moment. Yet the focus remains on the figures: how they continue, how they hold, how they build.” Her paintings allow the viewer to experience the tenderness and care shown amongst the figures from a place of safety and protection. 

Join us for the opening of In Defense of Tenderness on Saturday, May 3rd with a reception from 5 to 7 pm. The artist will be present. The exhibition will be on view through Saturday, May 31st.

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