Icarus

About Icarus

This large contemporary abstract acrylic painting is colourful.

Highly valued for their distinctive colour palette, gestural form and rich texture, the luscious, expressive paintings of Adam Cohen have won him critical international acclaim. Cohen favours an impasto method of painting--thickly applied layers—cut into with a palette knife when the paint is still wet. The result is remarkable colour depth, and visible texture. Icarus features a kaleidoscope of colour that appears to burst onto the canvas in reds, deep and pale blues, yellow, lime green, turquoise, hot pink, white and orange punctuated by fine markings in black. The painting is named after a figure in Greek mythology named Icarus who flew too close to the sun, melting his wax wings ending with a fatal fall to the sea.

“There’s an exquisite sensitivity I sometimes feel while creating. Like conscious dreaming. That’s where new ideas come. And growth. Color and composition are so subtle.” Adam Cohen

“His fields of colour and texture have the breadth and openness of the openness of the sky or aerial views from the earth’s surface.” Carter Ratcliff, Art Critic

Adam Cohen studied at Philadelphia’s Tyler School of Art and lived and painted in Rome for years. After many years as an illustrator in NYC, he returned to his first love--painting. Adam Cohen lives and paints in the Catskills, NY. Cohen has exhibited extensively in the US, Europe, Asia and most recently in Amsterdam, Venice and Long Island, New York.