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Merits (2023)

Events
4 international activities
Ranking
100/1034 ranking within discipline
Awards
0 international awards
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Other name (in original language)

Leiden
Netherlands

long description

Marieken Cochius is a Dutch-born artist who has lived and worked in New York City since 1987, and in the Hudson Valley since 2013. Meditative, strong and intuitive work that often explores growth forms, movement and containment of energy, she is drawn to remote places where she studies nature and makes art inspired by it. Her work encompasses drawing, painting, sculpture.

A sculptural public commission was completed in 2017 for the Village of Wappingers Falls, NY.

She is a 2020 Recipient of an FCA Emergency Grants of COVID-19 Fund,  and Marjorie Curit award winner for Contemporary and Non Traditional art.

Cochius' work has been exhibited in numerous galleries and institutions in places ranging from New York City, NY, Berkeley, CA, Austin, TX, Los Angeles, CA, to Japan, Germany and the Netherlands. She has participated in residencies including the Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT.

Cochius has participated in recent exhibitions at Alexey von Schlippe Gallery at UConn Avery Point, the Attleboro Museum, MA; Foundry Art Centre, St Charles, MO; Roxbury Arts Center, NY; The Ely Center, New Haven, CT; Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, NY; LAB Space, Hillsdale, NY; Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. Her work was recently featured on covers of Willard and Maple Magazine, Sun Spot Journal, and inside Oscilloscope, Superstition Review, Tule Review 2020, Cold Mountain Review, Mud Season Review, Miracle Monocle, Art for a New Earth, Tiny Seed Literary Journal,  Esthetic Apostle, FLAR, DeLuge Journal, Alluvian Environmental Journal, Raw Art Review.