The Provincetown Independent
By Dorothea Samaha Sep 18, 2024

In Provincetown, the tide’s comings and goings are always in view. But in a small fishing village on Paros Island in Greece, where Barbara Cohen had an artist residency this past summer, “The water was always there,” she says. Low tide and high tide weren’t very different at all. “It added to the whole sense of being in this distant, foreign place.” Cohen swam in the ever-present water in the heat of the morning and in the early evening. She painted all day.

Lower Cape TV Provincetown, MA
September, 20, 2023
People know Dr. Charles "Stormy" Mayo for his expertise with North Atlantic right whales, but he holds another reputation as well. In his Provincetown, MA garden he cultivates a passion for dramatic dahlias ... and in gardening circles artists and onlookers alike come to be inspired and appreciate the beautiful diversity of more 600 flowers.

Provincetown Magazine
Review by Rebecca M. Alvin July 14, 2022

Artist Barbara Cohen is known not only for her paintings and painted Polaroids, but also for several books she’s created over the past three decades, beginning with Dogs and Their Women written with Louise Taylor in 1989. Like that book, Our Provincetown: Intimate Portraits features a wide range of contributors. In this case, these contributors are people with strong relationships to Provincetown who share their favorite places in this unique town in short written pieces accompanied by painted Polaroids by Cohen.

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Tamora Israel, November 17, 2021
"To live by the water and to be able to be around beauty, for me, has always been a priority," said Barbara Cohen, writer and artist behind "Our Provincetown: Intimate Portraits," the newest book to be published by the Provincetown/New York artist.

Provincetown Independent
By Saskia Maxwell Keller, Dec 15, 2021

Among the distinguished contributors to Our Provincetown: Intimate Portraits, a book of painted Polaroids by Barbara E. Cohen published last month by Provincetown Arts Press and edited by Dorie Seavey, are David Dunlap, Michael Cunningham, Alison Bechdel, Nick Flynn, Joey Soloway, Paul Lisicky, and Sarah Schulman. Cohen asked 60 local figures to write about their favorite spots in town, which she accompanied with snapshots.

Provincetown Banner, Reva Blau Aug 6, 2010

Barbara Cohen, who will be exhibiting her work at the Cape Cod Museum of Art on Route 6A in Dennis from Aug. 7 through Sept. 18, doesn’t let herself get bogged down by the stubborn myth that abstraction and realism can’t mix. And to prove it she finds materials as absurdly ordinary as ping-pong balls to create her art. She then works and re-works the objects into shape using light, contours of grey, and even the velvety sounds the bouncing balls of table tennis make when they jostle each other.