Inner Voice

About Inner Voice

This contemporary abstract acrylic painting is colourful.

During the 1940’s to 1960’s a new method of abstract expressionism emerged called Action painting popularized by renowned artists like Jackson Pollock. This dynamic style requires the artist to use grand gestural brushstrokes, and often involves dripping, splashing and smearing paint on the canvas. Adam Cohen has developed his own visual language inspired by that style. In this richly layered piece, an evocative medley of colours--lemon yellow, silver, white, turquoise and sapphire jostle for space. Cohen also 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.

“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.