RECENT EXHIBITS

JERSEY CITY ARTIST TOUR

Saturday and Sunday
October 3 & 4, 2009
12-6

777 Bergen Avenue, Suite 216
JerseyCity, NJ 07306

530 West 25th Street
NYC
212-367-7063

royal flush
20 x 20 x 3 inches
oil, wax medium & marble dust on canvas

Art critic, Ed McCormack writes,

“While Cimini’s drawing skills evoke Diebenkorn, who vacillated between the figure and abstraction for a good part of his career, the impact of his color is akin to that of Hans Hofmann’s lush, geometric-based canvases (as opposed to his more linear gestural excursions). Yet, in contrast to Hofmann’s thick impastos and strident colors Cimini’s surfaces show a restrained painterliness, woven of smooth, sumptuous strokes, and his coloristic relationships are considerably more complex and subtle in a manner to Walter Darby Bannard, an influential but unheralded precursor of Color Field, Minimalism, and Post Painterly Abstraction especially active in the 1960s.”

“. . .This is a radical approach in an era when so much so-called “far-out” art has ultimately proven surprisingly reactionary. Stephen Cimini’s integrity lies in his refusal to abandon the adventurous spirit of aesthetic discovery on which the best abstract painting was founded and on which it continues to thrive.”