- Ryosuke Cohen
nihongo|Ryosuke Cohen|幸円 良介|"Kōen Ryōsuke"|extra=born 1948,
Osaka ,Japan is a mail artist. [cite news |title=Stamps of Approval |url=http://www.metroactive.com/papers/sonoma/03.13.03/stamps-0311.html |work=North Bay Bohemian |date=13 March 2003 |accessdate=2008-10-06 ] He was responsible for theBrain Cell mail art project, [cite news |title=Pushing the Envelope |url=http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid%3A81159 |work=The Austin Chronicle |date=23 March 2001 |accessdate=2008-10-06 ] which he began in June of 1985 and retains thousands of members in more than 80 countries. In August 2001 he began theFractal Portrait Project . He has taught art to school children for more than 25 years.Cohen discovered
mail art through the Canadian artist Byron Black. Early work by Cohen is a mixture of traditional Japanese imagery, contemporary icons, and numbers, as well as his signature, the letter "C".Cohen's family name is conventionally romanized as Kōen, but on the advice of a friend, he adopted the English spelling 'Cohen'. He is not a
Kohen .References
External links
* [http://www.h5.dion.ne.jp/~cohen/ Ryosuke Cohen Home Page]
* [http://cohen.hp.infoseek.co.jp/ Fractal Portrait Project]
* [http://www.crosses.net/merlin/ani98/cohen.html Animals in Mail Art]
* [http://www.aaa-edizioni.it/Cohen.htm Ryosuke Cohen and the Brain Cell Project]
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