Expressive mixed-media drawing by Isaac Cohen using oil pastels and black marker. The composition features abstracted natural and nautical forms, including a bird, boat, palm-like foliage, and basket, rendered in bold gestures and saturated colors. The chaotic layering evokes themes of memory, movement, and symbolic storytelling in a vibrant, intuitive visual language.

Untitled

2025 · Drawing · oil pastels and graphite on paper

Expressive mixed-media drawing using oil pastels and black marker. The composition features abstracted natural and nautical forms, including a bird, boat, palm-like foliage, and basket, rendered in bold gestures and saturated colors. The chaotic layering evokes themes of memory, movement, and symbolic storytelling in a vibrant, intuitive visual language.

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"Shoes" (2011) – conceptual artwork by Isaac Cohen exploring materiality and existence through a humble still life. A worn pair of leather shoes rests beside cut cardboard forms and a crumpled architectural drawing on a concrete floor. Referencing Van Gogh, the piece reflects on the physical traces of labor, the weight of modernity, and the poetic tension between handmade materials and industrial design.

Shoes

2011 · Sculpture · cardboard, paper leather shoes

"Shoes" (2011) – conceptual artwork. A worn pair of leather shoes rests beside cut cardboard forms and a crumpled architectural drawing on a concrete floor. Referencing Van Gogh, the piece reflects on the physical traces of labor, the weight of modernity, and the poetic tension between handmade materials and industrial design.

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conceptual installation by artist Isaac Cohen exploring the poetics of engineering through minimalist industrial forms. Cardboard cylinders, a spool-like object, and etched panels with mechanical drawings muse on the creation of purpose by introducing design to simple materials. The work reflects on structure, function, and the transformation of raw components into objects imbued with meaning.

Engineering

2012 · Sculpture · ply wood, industrial waste
"Equilibrium" – conceptual pencil drawing by artist Isaac Cohen, expressing the fragility of being through a minimalist still life. A balloon rests on a narrow shelf beside a small pitcher, suspended in a quiet architectural space. The soft graphite tones and balanced composition evoke tension, transience, and the delicate balance of existence.

Equilibrium

2006 · Drawing · pencil on paper
Conceptual drawing in black pen on white paper, featuring curved tubular forms that interact with a corner-like space. The minimalist composition explores spatial tension, line, and structure through precise, flowing contours in an abstract architectural style.

In the beginning #1

2008 · Drawing · black ink on paper

Conceptual drawing by artist Isaac Cohen in black pen on white paper, featuring abstract tubular forms in a minimalist composition. This contemporary line artwork explores space, form, and meaning through precise architectural gestures and symbolic visual language.

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Installation art by contemporary artist Isaac Cohen. the image features an empty room with a faint cube and horizon drawn on the wall. on the floor there is a mattress and a bag

Go forth

2011 · Installation · Mattress, bag and chalk

Go Forth echoes that divine call from Genesis —“Go forth from your land, your birthplace, and your father’s house…” —a call that reverberates not only through sacred scripture but through the creative act itself. It marks the moment when the artist leaves the known behind and ventures into uncharted inner territory —a journey toward meaning, […]

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Just admit it

2010 · Painting · Mixed media on canvas
Pencil sketch of the ‘Private Helicopter’ sculpture: a cubic wooden frame on caster wheels with a central rotorshaft, interior table and chair, and a trailing cord drawn to an off-page motor.

Private Helicopter

2010 · Sculpture · wood, found objects, commodore 64 computer

First exhibited in “Dreaming Reality”, Pyramid Gallery, Haifa, Israel. Curated by Shirly Meshulam. At the age of ten, I found an abandoned washing machine on the side of the street. For reasons I couldn’t explain at the time, I immediately saw a helicopter. I believed wholeheartedly that I could build one, powered by its motor […]

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