BIO
Marieken Cochius is a Dutch-born artist whose work is meditative and intuitive and often ex- plores growth forms, movement of light and wind, root systems, and animal architecture. She is drawn to remote places where she studies nature and makes art inspired by it. Her work encompasses drawing, painting and sculpture. In 2017 Cochius completed a public sculpture commission for the Village of Wappingers Falls, NY with a grant from the Hudson River Foundation. She is a 2020 recipient of a Foundation for Contemporary Arts (FCA), Emergency Grants COVID-19 Fund grant, and the 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, and Los Angeles, CA, to Japan, Germany and the Netherlands. She has participated in residencies including the Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT. Cochius participated in recent group exhibitions at the Alexey von Schlippe Gallery at UConn Avery Point, CT; the Attleboro Museum, MA; Foundry Art Centre, St Charles, MO; Woodstock Artist Association and Museum, Woodstock, NY; Roxbury Arts Center, NY; The Ely Center, New Haven, CT; Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, NY; Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY and more. Her work was recently featured in the publications Willard and Maple Magazine (cover), Sun Spot Journal (cover), and in Superstition Review, High Shelf Press, Tule Review 2020, Cold Mountain Review, Mud Season Review, Art for a New Earth, Esthetic Apostle, FLAR, DeLuge Journal, Alluvian Environmental Journal, and Raw Art Review. Cochius studied photography at the Art Academy St Joost in Breda, the Netherlands. She currently lives in the Hudson Valley, New York.
STATEMENT
I am fascinated by growth-forms, root systems of plants, movements of microscopic organisms, wind movements on water, seedpods and animal architecture. In those I see a sensitive chaos that contains and propels the origins and energies of life.
My sculpture, drawings and paintings capture fleeting moments in this organic world dominated by chaos and change. The energy that natural forms temporarily contain yet inevitably transform particularly inspires me. The found, often organic materials I use in my biomorphic sculpture (driftwood, bone, felt, stone, earth, mica), and the impasto surfaces of my landscape-inspired paintings embody this tension, suggesting both movement and enclosure. Evoking the mystery and power of nature through intensely materialist and tactile forms and imagery, they explore the porous boundary between what is seen and felt, where perception and experience merge.
I want to create a mesmerizing effect of movement, something that looks familiar, but that you cannot exactly place. Every inch of my work is as important as the whole. Like fractal dimensions, seen through a microscope or a telescope. I strive to have my work become an organic structure in itself, changing in different light or from different angles.
EDUCATION:
1987-1993 Kunst Academie St. Joost, Breda, Netherlands. Photography and Film.
GRANTS AND AWARDS:
2020: Grant: Foundation for Contemporary Arts: FCA Emergency Grants COVID-19 Fund
2020: Marjorie Curit Award for Contemporary and Non-Traditional work. Providence Art Club
2016: Commission for a public sculpture by the village of Wappingers Falls, NY.
Funded by a Grant from the Hudson River Foundation
2007:Vermont Studio Center; residency (11/07)
2005:Jacklight Gallery, NYC; Best in Show award: SOLO show.
1999:Vermont Studio Center; residency (4/99)
1992:Golden Flame: 1st Prize in Dutch National Video Award for up and coming talent.
Category: Short productions
1989:Eddie Adams Workshop, Jeffersonville, NY : 4 day photography workshop
PUBLIC WORKS:
2017: Sculpture for the Village of Wappingers Falls, NY. Installation postponed to fall 2020
Driftwood and metal
8 x 5.5 x 1.5 feet (240 cm x 165 cm x 45 cm)
SOLO and TWO PERSON SHOWS:
2019: ARTBAR gallery, Kingston, NY: Natural Inclinations, 2 person show with Carole Kuntstadt
2018: CMA gallery, MSMC Newburgh, NY: Complex Ecologies, 2 person show with Jackie Skrynski
Holland Tunnel Gallery, Brooklyn, NY: Dark Matter, 2 person show with Kent Peterson
2016: Holland Tunnel Gallery, Brooklyn, NY: A Space Once Occupied, Now Empty.
2016: Matteawan Gallery, Beacon, NY: Invisible Nature
2012: Lily Too Gallery, Madison, CT: Marieken Cochius
2005: Jacklight Gallery, NY, NY: Oology
2000: The Thai Cafe, Brooklyn, NY: Works by Marieken Cochius
1990: De Foyer, Nijmegen, Netherlands: Meat Market, NY.
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS:
2020:Holland Tunnel Newburgh Gallery, Newburgh, NY: Terra/Derma 3 person show with Marieken Cochius,
Kent Peterson and Romina Gonzales
Awakenings, Chicago IL: Bloom
Dartmouth Cultural Center, Dartmouth, MA: Off the Wall, Online Auction
Local Project Art Space, LIC, NY: In Between.
Alexey von Schlippe Gallery of Art, UConn Avery Point, CT: Open Air 2020
Foundry Art Centre, St Charles, MO: Global Impact
The Artist Essentials: "What Matters Most", curated by Huguette Despault May.
https://www.theartistessentials.com/curated-online-exhibitions/what-matters-most
http://impermanentearth.com 5 Collages included in website created by Rachel TonThat
Art Center Sarasota, FL: The Big Show
AMH, Poughkeepsie, NY: Looking back in Wonder, curated by Greg Slick and Eliza Pritzker
Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA: On the Surface, curated by Neil Walsh
Dallas Metro Arts Contemporary, Dallas, TX: 2nd Annual
bG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA: Representational abstract 3
Art Gym Denver, Denver, CO: artWork from Home
https://www.artgymdenver.com/?s=marieken+cochius
Providence Art Club, Providence, RI: curated by Dr. Matthew Hargraves. Marjorie Curit Award
Samual Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, NY: Stay Home Make Art, 5/11
https://www.instagram.com/p/CAEEfQpFGN9/
Walter Meade Gallery, Roxbury, NY: Large Works
Howland Cultural Center, Beacon, NY: Women's History Month
Queen City 15 Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY: Nude
Holland Tunnel Gallery, Newburgh, NY: Vision 2020
2019:Queen City 15, Poughkeepsie, NY: Portals, curated by Linda Marston-Reid
AnnMarie Sculpture Garden, Solomon, MD: When Darkness Falls
Hudson Beach Glass Gallery, Beacon, NY: Canopy, 3 person show, curated by Chris Davison
WAAM, Woodstock, NY: Radius 50 curated by Cathleen Chaffee, Albright Knox Gallery
Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT: Ear To The Ground
2018:Holland Tunnel Art Newburgh, Newburgh, NY: Open
Percolate Art Space, Pittsburgh, PA: Met-a-mor-pho-sis
Loft Artist Gallery, Stamford, CT: Relishing Restraints. Curated by Krista Saunders Scenna,
Groundfloor BK gallery
Cigar Factory, LIC, NY: Allow me to Reintroduce Myself. Curated by Krista Saunders Scenna,
Groundfloor BK gallery
WAAM, Woodstock, NY: Far and wide. Curated by Daniel Belasco, Al Held Foundation
Holland Tunnel Gallery, Newburgh, NY: First View
Pro Arts, Casa Colombo, Jersey City, NJ: Curators Choice
Kentler International Drawing Center: Collect and Connect
LABspace, Hillsdale, NY: True North
Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY: The Greatest Show on Earth
2017:Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, NY: Silent Sentinels
LABspace, Hillsdale, NY: Taconic North
Arts Mid Hudson, Poughkeepsie, NY: Catalysts
Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY: Through the Rabbit hole II
2016:Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY: Through the Rabbit hole
Kentler International Drawing Center, Brooklyn, NY: 100 works on paper
2015:Ube Gallery, Berkeley, CA: From where I stand
GCCA, Catskill, NY: Microcosm
Seton Hall School of Law University, Newark, NJ: New Works Show
Kentler International Drawing Center, Brooklyn, NY: 100 works on paper
Space Create, Newburgh, NY: Art About Water
Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY: Circle the Wagons
2014:Holland Tunnel Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Stairmasters Framed
The Lofts at Beacon Gallery, Beacon, NY: Energy Fields.
Curated by Marieken Cochius
Kentler International Drawing Center, Brooklyn, NY: 100 works on paper
The Lofts at Beacon, Gallery, Beacon NY: Textile Show
Huntenkunst, The Netherlands: Huntenkunst 2014
Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY: Sideshow Nation At The Alamo
2013:CWOW Gallery, Newark NJ: Unsteady Ground
Kentler International Drawing Center, Brooklyn, NY: 100 works on paper
Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY: Sideshow Nation
2012:Brik Gallery, Catskill, NY: Cowgirls of the Hudson Valley
Liberty Arts, Yreka, CA: Mullagatawny
Kentler International Drawing Center, Brooklyn, NY: 100 works on paper
Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY: Mic Check Occupy
2011:Holland Tunnel Gallery, Brooklyn, NY: Delft Blues
Benefit for Marie Mason, Eric McDavid, NY, NY
A.I.R Gallery, Brooklyn, NY: Wish you were here
2010:A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY: Wish you were here
Pump Project, Austin, TX: Stations
Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY: It’s a wonderful tenth
2008:Raum fuer Kunst und Kommunikation, Monchengladbach, Germany
2007:Sans Quoi Gallery, Okayama, Japan: Hot summer art battle
Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT: ANA 35: Curator Willem Volkersz
Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA: National; curator
Thomas Lentz, Harvard Museum
Washington Sq. East Galleries: NY, NY: Small works, curator Jim Kempner
2006:Citibank Headquarters: Queens, NY: Long Island City artists
Washington Sq. East Galleries: NY, : Small works, curator Jack Shainman
2005:Jacklight Gallery, NY, NY: Scream
2004 :Viridian Gallery, NY, NY: YW Why War, Why Dubya?
2004:New Gallery, Concert Series, Boston MA: collaboration w. composer Jorrit Dijkstra
2003:Artspace, New Haven, CT: Between fear and freedom: Duct tape. Collaboration w.
Jeff Slomba
2002:Holland Tunnel Gallery Brooklyn, NY: Mermaid Show
Gibbs Gallery, Arlington, MA: Day Job
2001:Arboretum, Los Angeles, CA: Cross Pollination
Andrews Gallery, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA: Day Job
450 Broadway Gallery, NY, NY: Collaborative Fusion 9/11
31 Grand St. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY: Medical Contraptions and Conceptions
9th BWAC Pier Show, Brooklyn, NY
Art Association of Harrisburg, Harrisburg, PA; curator Susan Cross, Guggenheim
Museum
Attleboro Museum, Attleboro, MA: Small Works show
Holland Tunnel Gallery, Brooklyn, NY: Cross Pollination
80 Washington Sq. E. Galleries, NY, NY: 24th Annual Small Works. Curator Peter
Blum
2000:State of Art Gallery; Brooklyn, NY; Industrious Subconscious
8th BWAC Pier Show, Brooklyn, NY: Sculpture
1999:Holland Tunnel Gallery, Brooklyn, NY: Lost and Found
7th BWAC Pier Show, Brooklyn, NY: Sculpture
1997:Knickerbocker Gallery, NY, NY: Artists Under Cover -Photography, poetry
1996:Chasse Theater, Breda, Netherlands: Coney Island -Photography Installation
Jacklight Gallery, NY, NY: Liars and Hypocrites -Photography
Jacklight Gallery, NY, NY: Valentine’s Show
1995:Extremely refrigerated, NY, NY: MEAT -Photography Installation
1994:World"s Women Online! Curator Muriel Magenta,
PUBLICATIONS:
2020: Verandah 35 eBook. Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. Page 60
2020: High Shelf Press XXIII. 8 drawings featured https://www.highshelfpress.com/issuexxiii
2020: Pulp Mag, Fall 2020 Issue 22 KPU, BC, Canada "Vocals"drawing featured
2020: High Shelf Press XXII. 4 paintings featured https://www.highshelfpress.com/issuexxii
2020: Instagram live tv: ANTE mag open call Featured Artist Virtual Studio Visits Pt ii. IGTV interview by Audra Lambert https://www.instagram.com/p/CEiFHUelN5n/ 8/30
2020: Hole In the Head Review: Issue 3 08/01/2020 https://www.holeintheheadreview.com/picsv1i3/marieken-cochius Azoth, Space between Thoughts, Joy of Giono featured.
2020: Toho Journal Online Summer 2020 Painting End Zone, Flight featured https://www.tohopub.com/jubilados
2020: http://impermanentearth.com Summer 2020
2020: Oscilloscope Literary Magazine: Issue 1 Painting Spread and interview featured. https://oscilloscopelit.com/marieken-cochius-visual-art/
2020: The Closed Eye Open: Issue 1, page 17-20 Space Unwound and 3 Solar Etches featured.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WkEXLU06S4SMYDCtcy5wRjSqNvw7Y5xz/view
2020: Camas Magazine: Summer 2020 issue, Collage Element#7 featured.
2020: Beyond Words: drawing 'Morning with Lover' featured. Issue 2 April 2020
2020: Superstition Review. ASU: 5 Element collages featured https://superstitionreview.asu.edu/issue25/art/mariekencochius
2020: Quarantine Zine, by Shari Diamond. Painting: 'Under the Tree of Life. Night' featured
https://www.sharidiamond.net/quarantine-zine/
2020: Tule Review, 2020, Sacramento Poetry Center. Page 30, Sculpture 'Gathering' featured.
2020: Art for a New Earth. 3 Element Collages featured.
https://artforanewearth.com/page/2/
2020: Cold Mountain Review. Appalachian State University: 8 Cloud drawings featured. https://www.coldmountainreview.org/issues/fall-winter-2019-special-issue-on-margins/from-clouds-by-marieken-cochius
2019: Mud Season Review. Sky drawing featured http://mudseasonreview.com/2019/12/fiction-issue-47/
2019: Miracle Monocle, University of Louisville, issue 13. 3 Space Once Occupied works featured
https://louisville.edu/miraclemonocle/issue-13/marieken-cochius-1
2019: Tiny Seed Literary Journal. Sculpture Thinking out Loud featured
https://tinyseedjournal.com/2019/11/03/thinking-out-loud/
2019: Willard and Maple Literary and Fine Art Magazine. Champlain College, VT: COVER ART (Wrap around)
Issue XX , Seeing /Not Seeing, also page 68 https://issuu.com/willardandmaplelitmag/docs/willard_maple_vol_20_ver_5
2019: The Esthetic Apostle, September issue. 6 Space Once Occupied drawings featured.
https://www.estheticapostle.com/marieken-cochius
2019:The Raw Art Review Spring 2019 page 119. Water series #2 painting featured
https://therawartreview.files.wordpress.com/2019/08/rar-2019-spring-issue-electronic-final-04.pdf
2019: Sun Spot Literary Journal: COVER ART: Volume 1 issue #: Invisible Nature / Progenitor drawing featured. https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/02648e54-da59-4f41-9110-a5be25d4dace/downloads/SLJ%20V1%20I1%20March%202019%20Rev%202.pdf?ver=1557390176136
2019: Fredricksburg Literary and Art Review: page 140
2018: deLuge Journal: page34 Sculpture: Icon http://www.delugejournal.com/uploads/3/4/8/8/34888906/deluge.4.1.pdf
2018: Havik Journal of Arts and Literature. Las Positas College, CA. Sculpure featured
2018:Alluvian Environmental Journal: Spring 2018 'But I thought..' painting featured
http://alluvian.space/but-i-thought-marieken-cochius
2018: Fredricksburg Literary and Art Review: Organic sculptures
pages 264-265-266
2009:Fifth Estate Magazine # 380: Featured Artist
PRESS:
2020: Poughkeepsie Journal: Linda Marston-Reid:Look Back In Wonder
2020: Highlands Current: Alison Rooney: The Artist Next Door. Interview and photos. https://highlandscurrent.org/2020/06/08/the-artist-next-door-marieken-cochius/
2020; Highlands Current: Chip Rowe https://highlandscurrent.org/2020/05/15/creative-responses/
2020: Ann Landi: Vasari 21 Newsletter 5/18/2020: Jerry Saltz's strange appetites, member news https://mailchi.mp/1ebb2c32be71/smart-collecting-at-the-local-level-and-the-ultimate-teaching-challenge-1324609?e=ff31bab35a
2020: The Daily Star: Roxbury Arts Group Large Works Show https://www.thedailystar.com/news/entertainment_news/large-works-to-go-on-display-at-rag/article_cc3a6ed9-56e5-5f2f-96ab-ba73a080bc49.html
2019: Ann Landi: Vasari 21 Newsletter: Photo and Canopy show featured. https://mailchi.mp/9776d52203b4/smart-collecting-at-the-local-level-and-the-ultimate-teaching-challenge-1324497?e=ff31bab35a&fbclid=IwAR1imjjxHq8H1JhIh0TmZAdXvI_snTPJtuLDJDHwtPr0qBnsUMGWxUTsT6g
2019: Poughkeepsie Journal/ Linda Marston-Reid: Artists open doors to public at Beacon Open Studios this weekend.
2018: http://www.dutchcultureusa.com/blog/4559/cochius-exhibits-in-newburgh-from-oct-19
2018: Dean Goldberg: Interview https://vimeo.com/294209079 4min.
2018: Ann Landi: Vasari21: Dark Matter show
2018: Consulate of the Netherlands USA
http://www.dutchcultureusa.com/blog/4358/holland-tunnel-gallery-presents-dark-matter
2018: Curated by Katherine Henning, senior associate curator at Saatchi Art: Meet the New Masters of Abstract Painting.
2017: Ann Landi: https://vasari21.com/what-is-a-drawing-part-two/
2017: NotRandomArt Contemporary Art Review magazine. Interview and photos. https://view.joomag.com/not-random-art/0194614001488987769 Pages 188-195
2017: Roll Magazine: Chiara Harrison Lambe: Art Highlights fall 2016
http://www.rollmagazine.com/art-highlights-fall-2016/
2016: New York Times: Listing and photo of 'Invisible Nature' solo show at Matteawan Gallery. mobile.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/nyregion/things-to-do-in-the-hudson-valley-feb-27- through-march-6.html
2016: Greenarts.org Arts Alive : Dakota Kim: Mircocosm invokes Nature's Abstract Beauty and Chaos.
https://www.greenearts.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ArtsAlive-104-WEB.pdf page 10.
2016: Ann Landi: https://vasari21.com/the-aha-moment-part-two/
2016: Highland Current: http://highlandscurrent.com/2016/02/12/making-art-with-two-hands/
2016: http://themobilemill.tumblr.com/post/131111249929/simple-human-gestures-they-go-a-long-way-hand
2015:Arts Alive May/June : Photos of work and article about upcoming Microcosm show
2014:Mid Hudson Times 10/1/14: Photo and work featured
2014:New York Times 8/17/14 Listings: ‘Microcosms’ show at Lofts at Beacon Gallery.
2014:Beacon Free Press: Textile show at the Lofts4/2/2014
2009:Fifth Estate Magazine # 380: Featured Artist
2001:NY Arts Magazine September Vol.6 no.9 Listing of show p.69/70 :Medical
Contraptions and Conceptions
1997:Het Parool 4/99 : "NL in NY" Dutch artists in NY (Netherlands)
1997:Brabant Cultureel 9/97 : Featured artist, midsection (Netherlands)
1996:De Telegraaf-9/12/96 : Coney Island show (Netherlands)
1995:Research Magazine, University of Arizona: Muriel Magenta: Worlds Women Online featured work.
1990:K.U. Nieuws3/9/90: (University of Nijmegen, Netherlands) Interview and photos
about solo ‘Meat Market’ show.