Liz Cohen

Liz Cohen

Liz Cohen is a performance artist and automotive designer. Cohen has an MFA in photography from California College of the Arts and Crafts, now, California College of the Arts, where she has taught. She currently lives in Phoenix, Arizona.

Early life

Cohen grew up in Phoenix, Arizona, a first-generation American of a Colombian Jewish family. She attended college at Tufts University in Boston, Massachusetts as an economics major. She graduated with a dual major in philosophy and ethical theory and studio art.

Bodywork project

Cohen is most notable for her "Bodywork" project to make an East German 1987 Trabant automobile transform into a 1973 Chevrolet El Camino using gears and hydraulics. As part of that project, Cohen hired a personal trainer and dieted [cite web
last = Keats
first = Jonathon
title = High-Performance Artist
publisher = Wired
date = July 2003
url = http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.07/start.html?pg=10
accessdate = 2007-09-04
] so she could appear in a bikini to be the model for the car at lowrider shows and for a series of photogaphs used to promote and document the project.

Photographs from the project have been shown at solo shows at Fargfabriken in Stockholm, Sweden and Galerie Laurent Godin in Paris, FranceMegan Irwin, [http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2006-10-05/news/hard-body "Hard Body: Liz Cohen's infiltrating the lowrider world — and calling it art] , "Phoenix New Times", October 5, 2006] as well as numerous publications, including the cover of German culture magazine Sleek (winter 2006/2007 issue) and the Nov. 2007 issue of The Believer. The car will be outfitted with motion sensors, cameras, and projectors to create an interactive exhibit. The project is financed primarily by grant money and includes the Trabant/El Camino as well as a music video and newspaper documenting the project.

References

External links

*MySpace|trabantamino|Liz Cohen
* [http://www.mywikibiz.com/Directory:Liz_Cohen Liz Cohen on MyWikiBiz]
*cite web
title = Liz Cohen: Bodywork
publisher =Creative Capital
url =http://channel.creative-capital.org/grantee_198.html
accessdate = 2007-09-04

*cite web
title = Liz Cohen: Bodywork
publisher = Creative Capital
url = http://channel.creative-capital.org/images/projects/05_Cohen.pdf
format = PDF
accessdate = 2007-09-04

* [http://www.believermag.com/issues/200711/?read=interview_cohen Liz Cohen] , Nov/Dec 2007, "Believer Magazine"


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