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 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]
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.
- ^ Smith, Roberta (2015-04-02). "Carmen Cicero: 'Early Works: 1970-1980s' (Published 2015)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-01-03.
- ^ 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.
Further reading
[edit]Cohen, Ronny (January 1985). "Ronny Cohen on Carmen Cicero". www.artforum.com. Retrieved 2021-01-03.
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