Lynne Cohen, “Spa”, 2000

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The first time I saw Lynne Cohen’s celebration of blue, aka “Spa”, 2002 was in the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal. She had approached me about my representing her in New York as her dealer. The work I was familiar with was great looking black and white, large format camera images of empty interior spaces. They were distinctive, handsome and well made, but I didn’t think I had anything special to say about them.

I was walking down a corridor and had to pass by “Spa” very closely, an ironically immersive introduction to the photograph. As I passed I thought “Oh my god, this is Lynne Cohen in color and I have to rethink everything — everything — about Lynne Cohen. I still don; know if I liked it, but damn, I couldn’t get away from it. Cohen sees better than anyone. As a photographer she distills everyone she can from the scene: the color, the detail, the horizontals the lighting, the surfaces. This is a major contemporary work .

There is something so obsessive and complete about the piece. The empathy comes from being brought so close to perfection; there is divinity in her finding the soul of this place. Dazzling.

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