FSL - Carmen Cicero: The Visionary Work: Reflections on Art and Life

Carmen Cicero came of age as a young artist in the 1950s inspired
by Abstract Expression-ism. He earned a B.A. at Newark State
Teachers College, did graduate studies at Hunter College with
Robert Motherwell and received an M.F.A. from Montclair State
University. Born in Newark, NJ,
Cicero began summering in Provincetown and Truro in the
1960s, studying briefly with Hans Hofmann. Cicero was
one of the first of the Second Generation of Abstract
Expressionists to switch from an abstract to a figurative
mode. Following a fire in 1971 in his New Jersey studio,
Cicero moved to New York’s Bowery where he has
resided ever since. The artist is represented in over 35
museum collections, 60 solo shows and over 175 group
exhibitions nationally and internationally. His work was
shown in six Whitney Annuals. The exhibition at PAAM,
curated by Bill Evaul, consists of the artist’s recent
visionary works (1990-2012). The critic Phyllis Braff has
written about these pieces: “What seems particularly
significant in Cicero’s art is the way he blends levels of
subjectivity, accumulated experiences, dreams and
earlier art in what seems to be a reflection of the multi-faceted
contemporary mind in an inform-ation age.”
A forthcoming book will be published by Schiffer on the artist’s art
and career.

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