Design Loves Art: Nicole Cohen Exhibit Launches at the PDC

Design Loves Art at the Pacific Design Center has recently commissioned a new sculpture in the Blue Lobby by New York and Berlin-based artist Nicole Cohen.


Nicole's sculpture Cohenʼs Interiors: Marilyn, Michael and Versailles takes inspiration from three of the artists video projects in which she entered historically famous homes such as Versailles, Neverland Ranch and the many homes of Marilyn Monroe. Each video project is represented now in this sculpture unified by three symbolic keys, i.e. Marilyn Monroe (pink chrome key), Marie Antoinette at Versailles (gold key), and Michael Jackson (red key).





Nicole is recognized in Los Angeles for her innovative video exhibition and performance, Please Be Seated, at the J. Paul Getty Museum in 2007-09, which received critical acclaim. In 2011, Cohen’s third museum exhibition, Driving in Circles was featured at the American University Museum Katzen Arts Center, Washington, D.C.


Nicole Cohen received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Southern California. She has exhibited at the Williams College Museum of Art, the Fabric Workshop & Museum (Philadelphia, PA), the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum (2007-09), and the New York Public Library. She has also shown internationally in Berlin, Germany; Bergen, Norway; Paris, France; Harajaku, Osaka, Kobe, and Tokyo, Japan; and Shanghai, China.