Brian D. Cohen

 

 

                                                                             B R I D G E   P R E S S

                                                               5413 US Route 5, Westminster Station, Vermont

                                                                            phone and fax (802) 722-4029

                                                     bridge_press@yahoo.com   *   http://www.bridge-press.com

 

EDUCATION

 

            MFA, Painting, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 1984.

            BA, Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania, magna cum laude with High Honors in Fine Arts, 1981.

            Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1976-77.

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

            Founder and Owner, Bridge Press, Westminster Station, Vermont, letterpress printing, artist's books, and etchings, 1989 to present.

            Coordinator, New England College Book Arts Workshops. Henniker, New Hampshire, 2004

Instructor, ILEAD (Institute for Lifelong Education at Dartmouth), Hanover, New Hampshire, Spring 2004

            Instructor, Department of Graduate Education, St. Michaels’ College, Winooski, Vermont, 2003, 2004

Artistic Director and Master Printer, Two Rivers Printmaking Studios, White River Junction, Vermont, 2000 to 2003

            Instructor of Drawing, Printmaking, Painting and Art History, The Putney School, Putney, Vermont,

1985-present; Dean of the Faculty, The Putney School, 1990-92, Chair, Arts Department, 1985 - 1993

Founding Director, Summer Programs, The Putney School, 1987 to 2001

            Instructor, Intaglio Printmaking, Plymouth State College, Plymouth, New Hampshire, 2000

            Instructor, Printmaking, Marlboro College, Marlboro, Vermont, 1995

            Instructor, Drawing, Community College of Vermont, Brattleboro, Vermont, 1994-95; Painting, Fall Semester 2001

            Instructor, External Degree Program, Johnson State College, Johnson, Vermont, 1994-95

            Adjunct Faculty, Antioch New England Graduate School, Keene, New Hampshire, 1994-95

            Artist-Instructor, Vermont College of Norwich University, Montpelier, Vermont, 1994-95

            Assistant in Fine Arts and Coordinator of Comfort Gallery, Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania, 1984-85

            Teaching Assistant, Drawing, Painting, and Design, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 1982-83

 

INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS

 

            Taylor Gallery, Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, New Hampshire, 2004

Tarrant Gallery, The Flynn Center, Burlington, Vermont, 2004

Bailey/Howe Library, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, 2002

Spheris Gallery, Walpole, New Hampshire, 2001.

            The Richmond Art Gallery, Loomis Chaffee School, Windsor, Connecticut, 2001.

            Davidson Galleries, Seattle, Washington, 2000.

            Dartmouth College Studio Art Exhibition Program, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1999.

            Galerie Passe-Partout, Montreal, Canada, 1999.

            Washington Printmakers Gallery, Washington, DC, 1999.

            Gedney Farm, Southfield, Massachusetts, 1998.

            Spheris Gallery, Walpole, New Hampshire, 1997.

            Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, California, 1997.

            Arts Center at Brickyard Pond, Keene State College, Keene, New Hampshire, 1996.

            Lyndon State College, Lyndonville, Vermont, 1996.

            Greenfield Community College, Greenfield, Massachusetts, 1995.

            A.V.A. Gallery, Lebanon, New Hampshire, 1991, 1995, 2000.

            Marlboro College, Marlboro, Vermont, 1988, 1995.

            Nada-Mason Gallery, Northfield Mount Hermon School, Northfield, Massachusetts, 1994.

            Bennington College Library, Bennington, Vermont, 1994.

            Gallery Two, Woodstock, Vermont, 1990, 1994.

            Gallery May, Sliven, Bulgaria, 1993.

            Washington Art Association, Washington Depot, Connecticut, 1993.

            The Beside Myself Gallery, Arlington, Vermont, 1990, 1992.

            River Valley Arts Center, Putney, Vermont, 1987, 1990.

            Comfort Gallery, Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania, 1985, 1989.

            University Friends Center, Seattle, Washington, 1983.

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND REPRESENTATION

 

            Wells College, Aurora, New York, 2004

New York State Museum, Albany, New York, 2004

Purdue University Galleries, West Lafayette, Indiana, 2004

Gallery of Graphic Art, New York, New York, 2002, 2004

The Art Alliance, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003

FlynnDog, Burlington, Vermont, 2003

Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, Connecticut, 2003

Broward Community College, Davie, Florida, 2003

Firehouse Center for the Arts, Burlington, Vermont, 2003

Sterling Library, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 2002

The Print Project, Burlington, Vermont, 2002

StoneMetal Press, San Antonio, Texas, 2002

Printmaking Council of New Jersey, Somerville, New Jersey, 2002

The Print Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1991, 1997, and 2001

The Art Gallery, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, 2001

            New Hampshire Institute of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire, 2001

            New England Railroad Museum, White River Junction, Vermont, 2002

Gallery of Graphic Art, New York, New York, 2002

Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, Vermont, 2002

Stephen Gang Gallery, Washington, DC, 2001

            The Athenaeum, La Jolla, California, 2000

Silver Cultural Arts Center, Plymouth State College, Plymouth, New Hampshire, 2001

            McGowan Fine Art, Concord, New Hampshire, 2000

            Oak Knoll Book Fair VII, New Castle, Delaware, 2000, 2001

            Addison-Ripley Gallery, Washington, DC, 2000

            Patti Gilford Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, 2000

            Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, Massachusetts, 2000

            Oak Knoll Book Fair, New Castle, Delaware, 1999, 2000

            Boston Public Library, Boston, Massachusetts, December, 1999

            Forgotten Language Tour, Concord Public Library, Concord, Massachusetts, October, 1999

University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, October, 1999

Federal Reserve Bank, Boston, Massachusetts, October, 1999

Pacific Center for the Book Arts, San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, California, 1999

Maison Richelieu des Arts et de la Culture, Quebec, Canada, 199

Stamford Art Association, Stamford, Connecticut, 1998

Washington Printmakers Gallery, Washington, DC, 1998

University of Texas at El Paso Library, El Paso, Texas, 1998

Society of American Graphic Artists, Krasdale Foods Art Gallery, Bronx, New York, 1998

Olin Library, Mills College, Oakland, California, 1998

Boston Printmakers, The Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, Massachusetts, 1997

Blue Stocking Gallery, York Beach, Maine, 1997

Place 1501, McGill College, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 1997

Galerie d’Art Jean-Claude Bergeron, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 1997

Centre des Arts Contemporains, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 1997

Metropolitan Gallery, Burlington City Hall, Burlington, Vermont, 1997

Russell Sage College, Albany, New York, 1997

Blue River Gallery, Jacksonville, Florida, 1997

Emory & Henry College, Emory, Virginia, 1997

Nabisco Headquarters, East Hanover, New Jersey, 1997

The Hand Workshop Art Center, Richmond, Virginia, 1997

John Hay Library, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, 1997

Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, 1997

Syracuse University Library, Department of Special Collections, Syracuse, New York, 1996

Albert M. Greenfield Library, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1996

Vernon R. Alden Library, Special Collections, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, 1996

Minnesota Center for the Book Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1996

Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara, California, 1996

The Art Museum of Santa Cruz County, Santa Cruz, California, 1996

Galerie Passe-Partout, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 1996 - 2001

John Callahan Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, 1995 - 96

Parents Foundation, New Haven, Connecticut, 1994

Florida Printmakers’ Society, Florida Community College, Jacksonville, Florida, 1994 and 1997

Gallery North Star, Grafton, Vermont, 1994 - 99

Montreal Print Fair, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 1994 - 96

Small Press Book Fair, New York, New York, 1994

Hart Gallery, Northampton, Massachusetts, 1994

The Old Print Barn, Meredith, New Hampshire, 1994

Gallery Sixty-Eight, Belfast, Maine, 1994

Barn Gallery, Ogunquit, Maine, 1994

Marilyn Pink Fine Art, Los Angeles, California, 1994 - present.

New World School of the Arts, Miami, Florida, 1993

John Russell Bartlett Society, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, 1993, 1995, 1997, and 1999

Washington Book Arts Fair, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1997, and 1999

Pepper Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, 1993

Tony Zwicker Books, New York, New York, 1993

Joshua Heller Rare Books, Washington, DC, 1993 - 96

Process Space Festival, Balchik, Black Sea, Bulgaria, 1993

Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1993

Barbara Gilman Gallery, Miami Beach, Florida, 1993

John Szoke Editions, New York, New York, 1993

Mississippi Fine Arts, Davenport, Iowa, 1993

Chaffee Art Center, Rutland, Vermont, 1993

Jack Vanderryn Fine Prints, Bethesda, Maryland, 1993

San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, California, 1992 and 1993

Thorne-Sagendorph Gallery, Keene, New Hampshire, 1993

J. Dewers Fine Art Prints, San Diego, California, 1993

San Diego Print Fair, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California, 1993 - 96

Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, Massachusetts, 1993

A.I.R. Gallery, New York, New York, 1993

Long Beach Island Foundation, Loveladies, New Jersey, 1992

Monica J. Strauss Books & Graphics, New York, New York, 1992 - 1993

Hunterdon Art Center, Clinton, New Jersey, 1992

Califia Books, San Francisco, California, 1991

Artworks Gallery, Hartford, Connecticut, 1991

Bookworks, The Brush Gallery, Lowell, Massachusetts, 1991

Bradley International Print Exhibition, Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois, 1991

Bromer Books, Boston, Massachusetts, 1991 - 93

Truepenny Books, Tucson, Arizona, 1990 - 93

Bird-In-Hand Gallery and Bookstore, Washington, DC, 1990 - 93

Gallery Seven, Gloucester, Massachusetts, 1990

The Boston Printmakers, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, Massachusetts, 1990

Prints International, Silvermine Guild Gallery, New Canaan, Connecticut, 1990 and 1994

T. W. Wood Gallery, Norwich University, Montpelier, Vermont, 1987 and 1993

Society of American Graphic Artists, New York, New York, 1989 and 1993

Ward-Nasse Gallery, New York, New York, 1989

University of Wisconsin, Parkside, Wisconsin, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1994, and 2000

Vermont Studio School, Johnson, Vermont, 1988

Stratton Arts Festival, Stratton Mountain, Vermont, 1988 - 1997

Hahn Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1988

Grove Street Gallery, Worcester, Massachusetts, 1988

Four Winds Art Gallery, Ferrisburg, Vermont, 1987

Mercer-Price Gallery, Putney, Vermont, 1984

Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 1984

University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, 1983

 

COLLECTIONS

 

Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Sterling Library Arts of the Book Collection, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

Stanford University, Stanford, California

University of the Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania

Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut

University of San Diego, San Diego, California

New York Public Library, New York, New York

Abernethy Library, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont

Yale Gallery of Art, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

Clapp Library, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts

Office of the President, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire

John Hay Library, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Bailey Howe Library, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont

Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, California

Mills College Center for the Book, Oakland, California

Baker Library, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire

Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Oregon

Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina

Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania

New England College, Henniker, New Hampshire

University of Wisconsin, Parkside, Wisconsin

David Copley, Copley Newspapers, San Diego, California

American Insurance Association, Washington, DC.

GATX Capital, San Francisco, California

Stillman Library, Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania

World Learning, Inc. Brattleboro, Vermont

United States Ambassador’s Residence, Cairo, Egypt

Underwood Memorial Hospital, Woodbury, New Jersey

Lyndon State College, Lyndonville, Vermont

Nielsen Library, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts

Vanguard Funds, New York, New York

John Ross and Clare Romano, authors of The Complete Printmaker, New York, New York

Jacob Lawrence Foundation, Seattle, Washington

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, City Lights Books, San Francisco, California

Ken Burns, Florentine Films, Walpole, Vermont

 

LECTURES AND WORKSHOPS

 

Millersville State College, Millersville, Pennsylvania, 2003

St. Michaels’ College, Graduate Department of Education, Winooski, Vermont, 2003

Zea Mays Printmaking Studio, Florence, Massachusetts, 2003

Two Rivers Printmaking Studio, White River Junction, Vermont, 2001 - 2003