An obvious heir to the Action Painters and Abstract Expressionists, Cohen employs a frenetic use of paint and materials to achieve canvases that are strangely balanced and calming. The drama of Cohen’s painting centers on her struggle for clarity. She admits that she often finds herself “tempering a drama.” Her abstract canvases are battlefields where the artist acts as mediator in conflicts between form and color, between gesture and structure. She never lets one entity dominate the picture. In each canvas, a unique and complex struggle takes place, but Cohen’s painterly decisions are consistent, and ultimately correct, even when her solution is irresolution.