Carmen Louis Cicero

American (1926)

About the artist:

Born Newark, New Jersey Lives and works in New York City Carmen Cicero was born on August 14, 1926, in Newark, New Jersey. From 1947 to 1951, Cicero attended the New Jersey State Teachers College (now Kean University), Newark, and in 1953, he briefly pursued graduate work in painting at Hunter College, New York, studying under Hans Hofmann and Robert Motherwell. The two abstract painters and their circle of artists, poets, and musicians were immensely influential for Cicero, whose singular explorations of abstraction coalesced within the overarching New York school of his teachers and friends. Cicero's early work combined the gestures of Abstract Expressionism with the artist's interest in Surrealist automatism. Many of his paintings were first executed in light brushstrokes, free-associating shapes with geographic locations or literary motifs, such as the mountains of Catalonia (in Near Tibidabo, 1950) or the strange creatures of Franz Kafka (in Odradek, 1959). The artist would work his black-and-white compositions further, adding the sharp lines and erratic forms that distinguished his oeuvre in the 1950s. In 1957, Cicero had his first solo exhibition at Peridot Gallery, New York, the gallery that exhibited the works of Louise Bourgeois and Philip Guston in solo shows a decade prior; Peridot continued to exhibit Cicero's abstractions through 1969. His work was also shown at such venues as the Museum of Modern Art, New York (1953, 1955, 1957); Newark Museum (1955, 1964, 1966, 1967); Art Institute of Chicago (1957); Fine Arts Pavilion, New York World's Fair (1964); Whitney Annual (later the Whitney Biennial), New York (1955, 1957, 1960, 1961, 1963, 1966); as well as the Guggenheim Museum's 1959 exhibition inaugurating its Frank Lloyd Wright–designed building. In 1957 and again in 1963, he was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. From 1959 to 1968, Cicero taught painting at Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York. In 1971, the contents of Cicero's Englewood, New Jersey, studio, which included the entire body of work still in the artist's possession, were lost in a fire. From that point forward, his painting took a personal turn, combining figuration, landscape, and wit in compositions with Surrealist overtones. Eschewing pure abstraction, Cicero focused instead on the continued development of what he referred to as "figurative abstraction," a style he experimented with in the 1960s that would become emblematic of his later work's representation of states of mind. From 1970 through 2001, Cicero was a professor of painting at Montclair State University, New Jersey, where he earned an MFA in 1991. In 2007, Cicero received the Krasner Lifetime Achievement Award from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. He lives and works in New York and Truro, Massachusetts. Education 1991 MFA, Montclair State College, NJ 1952 Graduate Studies with Robert Motherwell, Hunter College, NY 1951 BA, Newark State Teachers College, Newark, NJ Faculty Member 1959-1968 Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York 1970-2001 Montclair State University, Upper Montclair, New Jersey Solo Exhibitions 2007 Things That Happen in the Moonlight, June Kelly Gallery, New York; and Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA; catalogue 2004 Recent Paintings, June Kelly Gallery, New York; catalogue 2001 New Work, June Kelly Gallery, New York 2000 Carmen Cicero: A Survey of Paintings, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, MA; catalogue Carmen Cicero: Watercolors, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1998 Unseen Events: Paintings, June Kelly Gallery, New York; catalogue Paintings and Watercolors, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1997 Long Point Gallery, Provincetown, MA 1995 Paintings and Watercolors, June Kelly Gallery, New York 1994 Long Point Gallery, Provincetown, MA 1993 New Paintings, June Kelly Gallery, New York 1991 Montclair State College Art Gallery, Montclair, NJ The James Howe Gallery, Kean College, Union, NJ Long Point Gallery, Provincetown, MA 1990 Goldman-Kraft Gallery, Chicago, IL Paintings and Watercolors, June Kelly Gallery, New York 1988 Paintings, Graham Modern Gallery, New York Watercolors, June Kelly Gallery, New York Long Point Gallery, Provincetown, MA 1987 Watercolors and Sculpture, Graham Modern Gallery, New York 1986 Cherrystone Gallery, Wellfleet, MA 1985 Carmen Cicero, Maurice M. Pine Free Public Library, Fair Lawn, NJ Recent Paintings, Graham Modern Gallery, New York 1984 Long Point Gallery, Provincetown, MA Paintings and Drawings, 1975-1984, Graham Modern Gallery, New York 1983 Art Academy, Museum of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH Solo Exhibitions 1982 Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York 1981 Long Point Gallery, Provincetown, MA 1979 Gurewitsch Gallery, New York Long Point Gallery, Provincetown, MA 1978 Dubins Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1977 Long Point Gallery, Provincetown, MA 1976 Caldwell College, Caldwell, NJ 1975 Leslie Rankow Gallery, New York South Houston Gallery, New York 1974 Leslie Rankow Gallery, New York 1972 Simone Stern Gallery, New Orleans, LA 1971 Leslie Rankow Gallery, New York 1970 Wellfleet Art Gallery, Cape Cod, MA and Palm Beach, FL Drawings and Serigraphs, New School for Social Research, NY Fair Lawn Art Gallery, Madison, NJ 1969 Peridot Gallery, New York 1968 Peridot Gallery, New York Galleri Promenade, Tromso, Norway Simone Stern Gallery, New Orleans, LA 1967 Galerie Puntvier, Rotterdam, Holland 1966 Peridot Gallery, New York Drawings & Gouaches, American Gallery, NY 1964 Peridot Gallery, New York 1957 Peridot Gallery, New York Selected Group Exhibitions 2008 ArtHamptons, Bridgehampton, NY Art Chicago at Merchandise Mart, Chicago, IL 2007 182nd ANNUAL: An Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, National Academy Museum, New York; catalogue 2006 The Figure in American Painting and Drawing, 1985-2005, The Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, ME; catalogue Art Dealers Association of America, 69th Street Armory, New York Art Chicago at Merchandise Mart, Chicago, IL 2005 180th Annual Exhibition, National Academy Museum, New York 2001 Many Moons, curated by Barbara J. Bloemink, Hammond Museum & Japanese Stroll Garden, North Salem, NY 1998 Long Point Gallery at Fine Arts Work Center, Hudson D. Walker Gallery, MA A Tribute to Long Point Gallery, Cape Museum of Fine Arts, Dennis, MA A Salute to the Long Point Gallery, Nardin Gallery, New York Selected Group Exhibitions Long Point Gallery, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, MAContemporary Selections from The National Academy at Silvermine, New Silvermine Guild Galleries, New Canaan, CT 1997 The Artist’s Eye: Will Barnet Selects Portraits from the Permanent Collection, National Academy Museum, NY Our Century: Selections,” Housatonic Museum of Art, The Burt Chernow Galleries, Bridgeport, CT 20th Anniversary Exhibition, The Long Point Gallery, Provincetown, MA American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting & Sculpture, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York 172nd Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York Collector’s Show, selected by Townsend Wolfe, director and chief curator, The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR 1996 Inaugural Exhibition, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1996 Collector’s Show, curated by Townsend Wolfe and Ruth Pasquine, The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AK The Boat, Object and Metaphor, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York and the Rubelle and Norman Schafler Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY Summer’s Work, Long Point Gallery, Provincetown, MA 1995 170th Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York Summer’s Work, Long Point Gallery, Provincetown, MA 1994 Italian-American Artists, 1945-1968: A Limited Survey, Works on Paper, curated by Anthony Panzera with Lisa Panzera Melchor and Eloise Romais Jacobs, The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College, New York The Art of Italian Americans: Is Ethnicity Relevant? curated by Sigmund R. Balka, Krasdale Foods and Susan Hoeltzel, director Lehman College Art Gallery, Krasdale Foods Art Gallery, White Plains, NY Ghosts: Poets & Artists, Long Point Gallery, Provincetown, MA Varujan Boghosian & Carmen Cicero, Long Point Gallery, Provincetown, MA June Kelly: A Particular Vision, Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, NY 1993 Celebrating Long Point, Station Gallery, Katonah, NY Salute to Long Point, Stuart Levy Gallery, New York New York Art Scene comes to Buffalo, Albright-Knox Members Gallery, Buffalo, NY Art and the Law, West Publishing Company, St. Paul, MN; circulating exhibition 1992 167th Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York Artists-New York, CityArts, Marine Midland Bank, SoHo, New York Group Exhibitions, Long Point Gallery, Provincetown, MA 1991 166th Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York Art in the Garden, Cape Museum of Art, Dennis, MA Long Point Gallery Artists, Belltable Arts Center, Limerick, Ireland Three Group Exhibitions, Long Point Gallery, Provincetown, MA Selected Group Exhibitions 1990 American Art Today: The City, Florida International Art Museum, University Park, Miami, FL Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY Art and the Law, West Publishing Company, St. Paul, MN; circulating exhibition Three Group Exhibitions, Long Point Gallery, Provincetown, MA 1989 Katzen-Brown Gallery, New York Three Group Exhibitions, Long Point Gallery, Provincetown, MA Four on Four, Chandler Gallery, Wellfleet, MA 1988 Previews of the Past, Graham Modern Gallery, New York Group Exhibition, Long Point Gallery, Provincetown, MA 1987 Gone Fishing, Graham Modern Gallery, New York The Interior Self: Three Generations of Expressionists View of the Human Image, Montclair Art Museum, NJ Contemporary Painting, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL Four Artists from New York City, Goldman-Kraft, Chicago, IL Nightworks, Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY Art and the Law: The Bicentennial of the Constitution of the United States, West Publishing Co., St. Paul, MN; circulating exhibition venues include: Albrecht Art Museum, St. Joseph, MO; Muscarelle Art Museum, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA; MN Museum of Art, St. Paul, MN; Plaza Gallery, Bank of America World Headquarters, San Francisco, CA Group Exhibition, Long Point Gallery, Provincetowm, MA 1986 Life in the Big City, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI Cherrystone Gallery, Wellfleet, MA Short Stories, One Penn Plaza, New York Group Exhibition, Long Point Gallery, Provincetown, MA 1985 Summer Yellows, Graham Modern Gallery, New York Group Exhibition, Long Point Gallery, Provincetown, MA Art and the Law, West Publishing Company, St. Paul, MN; circulating exhibition Survivors, Ingber Gallery, New York The Neo Figure, Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ, December 1984 Woman: A Changing Picture, Graham Gallery, New York Summer Celebrations, Graham Modern, New York Group Exhibition, Long Point Gallery, Provincetown, MA Situations, Jamaica Arts Center, Jamaica, NY Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD Emotional Impact: New York School Figurative Expressionism, Art Museum Association of America, San Francisco, CA; two-year traveling museum exhibition, curated by April Kingly, Anchorage Historical Selected Group Exhibitions and Fine Arts Museum, AL; Museum of Art, Ft. Lauderdale, FL; University Gallery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL; Oklahoma Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, OK; Beaumont Art Center, Beaumont, TX; Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX 1983 Food for Thought, Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York Group Exhibition, Long Point Gallery, Provincetown, MA Bodies and Souls, Artists Choice Museum, (an 11 Gallery Survey Exhibition) 1982 Group Show, Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York The Famous Show, Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York Group Exhibition, Long Point Gallery, Provincetown, MA 1981 Discovery Gallery, Upper Montclair, NJ Group Exhibition, Long Point Gallery, Provincetown, MA 1980 Group Exhibition, Long Point Gallery, Provincetown, MA Grippi Gallery, NY 22 Fine Arts Alumni, Kean College, Union, NJ 1979 14 Provincetown Artists of Today, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI Collage: American Masters, The Montclair Art Museum, NJ Group Exhibition, Long Point Gallery, Provincetown, MA 1978 Group Exhibition, Long Point Gallery, Provincetown, MA Discovery Gallery, Upper Montclair, NJ Gurewitsch Gallery, New York 1976 Drawings, Landmark Gallery, New York Summit Art Center, Three Man Show, Summit, NJ 1973 37th Annual Midyear Show, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH 1971 New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ 1970 In Memorium, Peridot Gallery, Lou Pollack, New York Serigraphs, Grippi Gallery, New York 1969 American Drawings, New School of Social Research, New York 1968 Sarah Lawrence Art Festival, Riverside Museum, NY Grippi Graphics, New York New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ Homage to Morandi, School of Visual Arts, NY 1967 Newark Museum, NJ International Young Artists, Japan New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ Artists Technological Research Institute, Parke-Bernet Gallery, NY 1966 Newark Museum, NJ Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; traveling exhibition New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, IN Artists for C.O.R.E., Grippi-Waddell Gallery, New York Selected Group Exhibitions 1966 Landscape, 1966, Visual Art Gallery, New York Galerie Punt Vier, Rotterdam, Holland Simone Stern Gallery, New Orleans, LA Drawings: USA, St. Paul Art Center, St. Paul, MN Annual, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 1965 Contemporary American Painting, Whitney Museum Annual, New York Decade of American Paintings, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York International Artists Workshop, Fairleigh Dickinson, NJ Art in Roosevelt House, New Delhi, India; under the auspices of Ambassador Chester Bowles Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL Mysteries and Dreams, Dorsky Gallery, NY New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ Art in Science, Albany Institute of Art, NY 1964 New York World’s Fair, Fine Arts Pavilion, NY American Conscience, New School Art Center, NY Newark Museum, Newark, NJ Old One Hundred, Larry Aldrich Museum Ridgefield, CT Fairleigh Dickinson University Gallery, Madison, NJ Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, OH Artists Tribute to JFK, Swarthmore College, Swathmore, PA 1963 Contemporary American Painting, Whitney Museum Annual, New York Review of the Season, Art Dealers Association of America, Parke-Bernet Gallery, NY National Institute of Arts & Letters, NY Museum des 20 Jahrhunderts, Vienna, Austria 1962 40 Artists Under 40, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; curated by Lloyd Goodrich; traveling exhibition to Munson-Williams- Procter Institute, Utica; Rochester Memorial Art Gallery; Roberson Memorial Center, Binghampton; Albany Institute of History and Art; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse; Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA Jerold Morris International Gallery, Toronto, Canada Selected Group Exhibitions 1961 Whitney Museum Annual, New York Art Institute of Chicago, IL Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Loeb Student Center, New York University, NY 1960 Whitney Museum Annual, New York Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 1959 Inaugural Selections, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Premiere Bienale de Paris, Paris, France Art Foundation Exhibition, Rome, Italy and New York (concurrent shows) Peridot Gallery, New York Richard Brown Baker collection exhibition, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC International Watercolors, Brooklyn Museum, NY 1959 American Academy of Arts & Letters, New York 1958 University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA 1957 Whitney Museum Annual, New York Art Institute of Chicago, IL Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE Art Foundation Exhibition, Rome, Italy and New York (concurrent shows) Drawings, USA, Museum of Modern Art, New York 1956 University of Colorado, Boulder, CO Junior Art Gallery, KY New Talent: USA, American Federation of Arts, traveling exhibition Annual, Stable Gallery, New York 1955 Newark Museum, NJ Whitney Museum Annual, New York Forum Gallery, New York 1955 The Montclair Art Museum, NJ Recent Drawings, The Museum of Modern Art, New York 1953 Jersey City Museum, NJ The Museum of Modern Art, New York Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI Museums (Selected) Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, Springfield, MA Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC National Academy Museum, New York National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ Newark Museum, Newark, NJ The Montclair Art Museum, NJ The Museum of Modern Art, New York The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, CA Jacobs, Visconsi & Jacobs, Cleveland, OH La Mont Gallery, Exter Academy, NH West Publishing Co., St. Paul, MN Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, CAN Musei Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Holland Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA Cahoon Museum of American Art, Cutuit, MA Fellowships and Awards 2007 Lifetime Achievement Award, Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award Alden Bryan Prize, National Academy Museum 2000 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award 1997 American Academy of Arts & Letters, Purchase Prize 1995 Mikhail and Ekateryna Shatalov Award, National Academy of Design 1965 Ford Foundation Purchase Prize 1963 Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship 1961 Ford Foundation Purchase Prize 1957 Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship Selected Bibliography Catalogues and Periodicals 2007 Carmen Cicero: Things that Happen in the Moonlight, essay by Robert Berlind, June Kelly Gallery, New York Designo: 180th Annual Exhibition, National Academy, New York 2001 176th Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York 2004 Carmen Cicero: Recent Paintings, essay by Phyllis Braff, June Kelly Gallery, New York 2000 Carmen Cicero: Paintings—A Survey, “Fantasist,” essay by Donald Kuspit, Provincetown Art Association and Museum 175th Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York 1999 Provincetown Art Association and Museum: The Permanent Collection, essays by Tony Vevers and Kathryn Smith 174th Annual Exhibition, National Academy Museum, New York 1998 Cicero: Unseen Events: Paintings, essay by Gerrit Henry, June Kelly Gallery, New York and Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1997 172th Annual Exhibition, National Academy Museum, New York 1995 Italian-American Artists, 1945-1968: A Limited Survey, Works on Paper, essay by Lisa Panzera Melchor, The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery of Hunter College of The City University of New York 170th Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York 1994 169th Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York 1993 168th Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York 1992 167th Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York 1991 166th Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York 1987 Montclair Art Museum, The Interior Self: Three Generations of Expressionists View the Human Image, Montclair, NJ Boca Raton Art Museum, Contemporary Painting, Roger L. Selby, Boca Raton, FL Art and the Law, Gerald L. Cafesjian, West Publishing Co., St. Paul, MN 1986 Rhode Island School of Design, Life in the Big City, Providence, RI 1985 Art & The Law, 10th Annual Exhibition circulated and published by West Publishing Co., St. Paul, MN Carmen Cicero, Maurice Pine Library, Fairlawn, NJ 1984 Carmen Cicero, Paintings and Drawings 1975-1984, catalogue essay by Lowery Stokes Sims, Graham Modern Gallery, New York April Kingsley, Emotional Impact: New York School Figurative Expressionism, Art Museum Association of America; San Francisco, CA Community Herald, New York City, “Running Scared,” reproduction 1983 Provincetown Advocate, “Death Hails A Cab,” reproduction The New York Times, Grace Glueck, “A Gallery Scene that Pioneers in New Territories Gentlemen’s Quarterly Magazine, “Showcasing Arts Forward Moves,” Nicholas A. Moufarrege, review and reproduction of “Prince Charming” 1982 The Village Voice, “An Opinionated Survey of the Weeks Events” Art Express, photo of the members of the Long Point Gallery The Village Voice, “Gracie Redux,” March Arts Magazine, “Another Wave, Still More Savagely than the First: Lower East Side,” Nicholas A. Moufarrege 1981 Provincetown Advocate, “Painter, Jazzman Carmen Cicero,” Katherine Gammon 1980 New Jersey Art Forum, “Across the Hudson,” Tony Canger 1978 Boston Globe, “Provincetown: Haven for Talent,” Robert Taylor 1978 Art/World, “Summer '78: Provincetown Journal,” Judith Rothschild 1976 New Jersey Music and Art, “Nurtured in New Jersey,” Lynn Grafton 1973 New Jersey Music and Art, “Carmen Cicero,” Ruthann Williams, cover 1966 The Visual Dialogue, Nathan Knobler, (book) 1965 Contemporary American Painting, Allen S. Weller 1964 Painting and Sculpture in New Jersey, William Gerdts Art in America, “New Talent USA,” Barbara Rose 1962 Whitney Museum Catalog, “40 Artists Under 40” Carmen Cicero: Recent Paintings at the Peridot Gallery 1960 Sarah Lawrence College Magazine, cover 1959 The Museum, “A Survey: 50 Years,” Guggenheim Museum Inaugural Collection, James J. Sweeney 1956 Quadrum Magazine, “The Cat That Walks,” James J. Sweeney Selected Bibliography Books 1993 Charles LeClair, The Art of Watercolor: Techniques and New Directions, 2nd Ed, Prentiss-Hall 1991 Charles LeClair, Color in Contemporary Painting; Watson-Guptil Publications, New York 1990 Organized Crime, 3rd ed., reproduction on cover, “Looney Tunes” 1966 Nathan Knobler, The Visual Dialogue; Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., New York 1964 William H. Gerdts, Jr., Painting and Sculpture in New Jersey; D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., Princeton, NJ 1959 The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, A Handbook to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Collection Selected Bibliography Reviews 2004 The New York Times, Ken Johnson, “Carmen Cicero at the June Kelly Gallery,” December 3, vol. 154, issue 53052, p. E30, 1/9 p The New York Times, Ken Johnson, “Carmen Cicero at the June Kelly Gallery,” November 26, vol. 154, issue 53045, p. E33, 1/9 p The New York Times, Art Guide, Ken Johnson, April 20 2000 Cape Cod Times, Debbie Forman, “Dream On,” Saturday, August 26 A-Plus, An Art/Antiques/Design tabloid supplement provided to newspapers on Cape Cod, Carol K. Dumas, “Carmen Cicero: A Life’s Work,” Summer 1999 ARTnews, review, Barbara Pollack, “Carmen Cicero,” March Art in America, review, Cathy Lebowitz, “Carmen Cicero at June Kelly Gallery,” February, vol. 87, issue 2, p. 110, 2p 1998 The New York Times, Grace Glueck, “Carmen Cicero,” Friday, October 9, vol. 148, issue 51305, p. 38 1997 Cape Cod Times, Debbie Forman, “After the Festivities, Art at the Heart of a Gallery Opening” July 31 The Provincetown Advocate, “Carmen Cicero Demands Emotional Response To His Art,” July 24 The Cape Codder, “Abstract Images: Artists Works Are Worth More Than A Thousand Words,” July 1994 The Boston Globe, Robert Taylor, “Ghosts’: Painters, Poets Conjure Up A Spirited Mix,” July 22 1988 The New Yorker, vol. 64, issue 35, p. 10-15 1987 The New York Times, Vivien Raynor, February 13 The New York Times, William Zimmer, “Expressionism Across the Generations at Montclair Museum,” March 29 The Palm Beach Post, “Museum Continues Its Good Work,” Gary Schwan, March 29 1986 Providence Sunday Journal, Arts and Leisure, Bill Van Siclen Rhode Island School of Design, “Life in the Big City” Arts Magazine, v. 60 (February) p. 128, R. Mahoney, 1986 East Side Monthly, “The Naked City Bares Its Soul,” February 1985 The New York Times, “Exuberance Coupled With Insight,” William Zimmer, January 1 Artforum International, v. 23 (January), p. 91 The Miami Herald, “Emotional Impact Shows Real Expression,” Helen L. Kohen, February Newark Star Ledger, Newark, NJ, “Cicero’s Characters,” Eileen Watkins, April 12 The New York Times, “Fair Lawn: An Expressionist with His Own Individuality,” David L. Shirey, Sunday, April 7 Fortune Magazine, “How Not To Get Stung By Art,” Marilyn Wellmeyer, photograph, April 15 The New York Times, Vivien Raynor, December 6 1984 The New York Times, Grace Glueck “Women: A Changing Picture,” Gallery Guide, “A Changing Picture,” summer The Advocate, “13 Acclaimed Artists at Long Point,” reproduction Connoisseur, “Masterworks, Aplenty,” Thomas Hoving, October Specchio Economico, December The New York Times, Grace Glueck “Family Revived Art on Cape Cod,” August The New York Times, John Russell, October 5 ARTnews, vol. 83 (December) p. 152+ Art in America, vol. 72 (December) p. 165 1984 Art in America, Donald Kuspit, December Provincetown Magazine, Rosalind Smith, “Long Point Gallery's Journey into the Past,” Summer 1982 Flash Art, “The Famous Show,” Gracie Mansion Gallery, January Artspeak, “The Human Art,” Mary Abell, September 2 1981 Art Express, April Kingsley 1978 The Los Angeles Times, December Art Week, Oakland, CA, December 1975 ARTnews Art in America, March/April, April Kingsley 1974 The SoHo Weekly News, John Gruen 1973 ARTnews, Al Brunelle, September issue 1972 Arts Magazine, September/October reviews

Carmen Louis Cicero

American (1926)

(5 works)

About the artist:

Born Newark, New Jersey Lives and works in New York City Carmen Cicero was born on August 14, 1926, in Newark, New Jersey. From 1947 to 1951, Cicero attended the New Jersey State Teachers College (now Kean University), Newark, and in 1953, he

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