Ezra Cohen

Ezra Cohen builds portals. Some just happen to look like paintings. Born and based in Hell’s Kitchen, NYC, Ezra’s work wrestles with the tension between what we see and what we can never fully know. Inspired by everything from Miyazaki’s Spirited Away to ancient Greek mythology to ancient astronaut theory (yes, really), his paintings live in the space between the ephemeral and the eternal. At Lola, Ezra presents Bridge — a work that nods to the thin places between life and death, memory and forgetting. Look closely and you’ll find a Nepenthes plant, a symbol of grief undone, and a reminder that not all paths lead where we think they do. When he’s not making art, Ezra is probably in the kitchen cooking a meal his mother would be proud of — or quietly arguing that vanilla bean and crystallized ginger is an elite flavor combo. Stretch gently. Things aren’t always what they seem.

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