Amy Cohen Banker has a "painterly", colorful/colorless style that carves out shapes and forms (synthetic realism). Life is reconstructed as reality and imagination is processed to become a portrait and landscape as layers upon layers of meaning are revealed and or concealed as the viewer sees new objects take shape on the oil/acrylic/crayons on canvas. Process, time, lyrical movements, sumi-e, palimpsests are revealed and articulated, inspired by moments from nature, music and poetry. She is always thinking of "metaphor".

Amy Cohen Banker resides in New York City and Massachusetts where she has
collaborated and exhibited in many multimedia and fine art projects through
the Smithsonian, MOMA, and the Whitney. She studied Design and Art at Cornell University and later lived in Japan before study at the Art Student League of NY.