JO-HS presents the Open Studios by Ezra Cohen & Zahra Holm.

About Ezra Cohen

Ezra Cohen is an American contemporary artist who began his training at the age of nine with his mentor the late painter Edla Cusick. From 2010-2018, Cohen studied under master artist Knox Martin at the Art Student’s League of New York. He was awarded the Fantasy Fountain Fund Scholarship to attend an artist residency at the Marchutz School of Fine Arts in Aix en Provence, France, with renowned sculptor Greg Wyatt. Cohen works in both abstract and figurative styles and is currently interested in imagery of creation and destruction. His work is characterized by high-contrast, vivid color, and texture.

About Zahra Holm

Originally from Sweden and Tunisia, contemporary artist Zahra Holm lives and works in Paris. Holm started drawing at a very young age and has become a self-taught painter, primarily working with oil paint. Zarah Holm describes her artistry and aesthetics as colourful, feminine and free. She’s drawn to the female form for its beauty and complexity as well as its undeniably present body language. Because of this her pieces are a tribute to the very essence of femininity with focus on the more modern female, lifting questions of today’s beauty ideals, body shapes as well as exploring issues around gender. 

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