Ian Cozzens is a visual artist living in Providence, Rhode Island. He makes prints, sculptures, quilts, zines, spaces, collections, & shelves, among other things. He is the Resident Artist Mentor in printmaking at New Urban Arts, an afterschool art studio for high schoolers. He got an architecture degree at RISD in 2005. He’s into figuring out how to ask the right questions for the moment, or maybe just asking as many questions as possible.

 

Over the past ten+ years, Ian has built installations incorporating silkscreened paper, wallpaper, and text, as well as shelves, boxes, and constructions, laid out by making perspective drawings by hand. His interests in pattern, geometry, and history have led him to the craft of patchwork and quiltmaking, elements of which have also become part of the installations (as well as part of his daily life). He also repairs & sails small boats, works on his bike & his car, and recently has been re-learning knitting and welding. Ian is always trying to bring things together, seeking out some kind of unity of content with form, craft, and existence.