By observing urban architectural and structural elements, I document the passage of time, and the way recasting – or preserving – the constructed city affects our relationship with the built and natural environment. I explore tensions between old and new, solid and void, and presence and absence. Abstract layering of light, color and form evoke gut recognition, and an ambiguous sense of time and place. 

Cora Jane Glasser is a third generation New Yorker. She earned a degree in Anthropology & Art at Queens College in 1965, and subsequently attended the Arts Students League from 1998-2001. Her work focuses mainly on architectural and archaeological imagery, in the context of her urban surroundings. Primarily a painter, she in addition has completed a commission to produce permanent artwork onto architectural glass for a new building, created monumental installations for group exhibitions at the FIT Gallery in NYC, "Picturing Space"(2019), and “Picturing Light”(2024), and collaborated with the anthropology department at Syracuse University to develop an exhibition of art and artifacts unearthed from a NYC historic burial site. Her work has been shown in numerous solo and group shows nationally and internationally, and is held in private, corporate, and municipal collections. Since 2023 she has been affiliated with Alex Ferrone Gallery in Cutchogue, NY, https://www.alexferronegallery.com/ where her work has thus far appeared in five (5) shows. Glasser works from her studio in midtown Manhattan.