Carmen Cicero

Carmen Louis Cicero (born August 14, 1926) is an American painter from Newark, New Jersey.^[1]

Work edit

Cicero started as an abstract painter and use automatism in his drawings of memories of places.^[2] In 1971 a studio fire destroyed the work still in his possession.^[2] He moved to New York and started over in a dramatically different figurative style.^[3] In the 1990s, Cicero's style changed again, from figurative expressionism to visionary realism reminiscent of magic realism.^[4]

Education edit

Cicero attended the New Jersey State Teachers College (now Kean University) from 1947 to 1951.^[1] Cicero studied painting under Hans Hofmann and Robert Motherwell at Hunter College in 1953.^[1] He received an MFA from Montclair State University in 1991.^[1]

Teaching edit

Cicero taught painting at Sarah Lawrence College 1959 to 1968.^[1] Cicero was a professor of painting at Montclair State University from 1970 through 2001.^[1]

Collections edit

Work by Cicero is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art,^[5] the Smithsonian American Art Museum,^[6] and the Whitney Museum of American Art.^[7]

Awards edit

Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, 2008^[8]
Jacob Lawrence and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Awards, 2016.^[9]

References edit

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "The Guggenheim Museums and Foundation". The Guggenheim Museums and Foundation. Retrieved 2021-01-03.
^ ^a ^b Mecklenburg, Virginia M (1987). Modern American realism: the Sara Roby Foundation Collection. Washington, D.C.; London: Smithsonian Institution Press. ISBN 978-0-87474-691-4. OCLC 1042850218.
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^ Glueck, Grace (1998-10-09). "ART IN REVIEW (Published 1998)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-01-03.
^ "Carmen L. Cicero | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2021-01-03.
^ "Carmen Cicero | Smithsonian American Art Museum". americanart.si.edu. Retrieved 2021-01-03.
^ "Carmen Cicero". whitney.org. Retrieved 2021-01-03.
^ "Artnet News: Coco Fusco's "Human Rights and Human Wrongs," Cocksucker Blues, more. - artnet Magazine". www.artnet.com. Retrieved 2021-01-03.
^ Scher, Robin (2016-03-22). "American Academy of Arts and Letters Names Art Award Winners". ARTnews.com. Archived from the original on 2020-09-19. Retrieved 2021-01-03.