meet Audrey
Audrey Coe looks to deepen her investigation into color’s effect on emotions
and mental health through abstract expression and photography.
Audrey Coe is an American artist who specializes in colorful abstract art and photography. Her work investigates the effect of color and texture on emotions and mental well-being,
inspiration
Expressionism
Audrey was 12 years old when her mother took her to the Peggy Guggenheim Museum in Venice, Italy and she was introduced to the works of Marc Chagall. Immediately she was drawn to the colors and dreamy aspects of his works and became a life-long fan.
Audrey traveled extensively to Europe and South America with her family and was exposed to master works from a young age. Her aesthetic was developed by admiring both the softness of the Impressionists and the angular geometry of artists like Kandinsky.
Her love of abstraction or focusing on micro aspects of art can be seen in her photographs and prints. Largely self-taught, Audrey continues to develop other aspects of her art through more representational study in drawing and illustration.
color therapy
As a young adult Audrey was helping her mother recover from cancer treatment, and her doctor advised her to surround her mother with bright colors throughout her home and to plant bright beautiful flowers in her garden, as those colors would help infuse her with energy and positive emotions to assist in her recovery.
Since then Audrey became mindful of the effect color could have on the psyche, and either calm or enliven those nearby.
neurodiversity
More recently Audrey has been educating herself on neurodiversity and has begun to explore the effects of color and patterns on those whose minds react to stimuli in a different manner.
She is now on the path to create works that can inspire and enliven or create calm through softer forms and tones.
Artist CV
Formal Education
- Universita di Bologna- art history – 1996
- Rice University, Houston- still life painting- 2017/2018
- Art Students League of New York- drawing, illustration- 2020-2023
Group Shows
- 2023 COLOR BWAC Brooklyn, NY
- 2023 ABSTRACT 2023 Las Laguna Art Gallery (Online)
