Artist statement
I am an interdisciplinary artist working primarily in painting, while expanding my practice through collage, assemblage, video, and sculpture. I often incorporate unexpected materials—art magazines, wallpaper, playing cards, cardboard, driftwood—inviting a conversation between the ordinary and the poetic. My creative process is intuitive and exploratory, guided by years of experience and observation. Each medium I engage with informs the others, deepening my visual language and expanding the conceptual range of my work.
In recent years, collage has profoundly influenced the way I paint. The act of layering, cutting, and reconstructing has opened new pathways for storytelling—ones that embrace dissonance, repair, and transformation.
My exhibition, Tribulations, is inspired by shared experiences, mythologies, and the inner battles that define the human condition. The work pays homage to art history while forging a contemporary narrative rooted in fragmentation, resilience, and the search for wholeness. Through mythological references and symbolic imagery, I explore how we adapt, endure, and ultimately transform ourselves in the face of adversity—not just to survive, but to evolve and better ourselves. Tribulations is a visual meditation on the power of repair, honest introspection, and hope.
Raphaele Cohen-Bacry was born and raised in Paris, France. She studied painting and engraving in various schools in France while completing her doctorate in pharmacology, and a degree in performing arts at l’Ecole de la Rue Blanche in Paris. Cohen-Bacry split her time between New York and Paris for many years, and then moved to Los Angeles in 2003. The feeling of freedom and possibility has influenced her creation process greatly. Cohen-Bacry considers art as a personal quest and her studio as a laboratory where she conducts experiments to create images that do not exist in the real world. She is influenced by movements such as CoBrA and Lyrical abstraction (or Tachisme), as they leave room for intuition and non-premeditation.
On exhibit at Sahara West Library from November 3, 2025 through January 31, 2026
Gallery reception on Thursday, November 6, 2026 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Monday: 10:00AM – 8:00PM
Tuesday: 10:00AM – 8:00PM
Wednesday: 10:00AM – 8:00PM
Thursday: 10:00AM – 8:00PM
Friday: 10:00AM – 6:00PM
Saturday: 10:00AM – 6:00PM
Sunday: 10:00AM – 6:00PM
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