Carmen Louis Cicero (born August 14, 1926) is an American painter from Newark, New Jersey. [1]
Cicero started as an abstract painter and used 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]
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]
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]
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]
Cohen, Ronny (January 1985). "Ronny Cohen on Carmen Cicero". www.artforum.com. Retrieved 2021-01-03.
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