New York-based abstract artist, Adam Cohen’s latest works are richly textured and colourful expressions filled with energy. Cohen is known for his method of applying paint in thick layers that he cuts through and moves with a pallet knife while the pigments are still wet. In this piece, the viewer’s eye is drawn across the canvas from the rich blues and bright whites to a melange of colours…orange, purple, yellow, lime green and bright pink.

“Colour is a wild animal. Seventy-five percent of your concentration is taken up by colour.” Adam Cohen

Adam Cohen, born in New Jersey, studied with artist Lilian Marzell, a friend of Willem de Kooning. Cohen earned his BFA at Philadelphia's Tyler School of Art at Temple University which included a year of painting in Rome. Returning to New York he studied at the School of Visual Arts, the Arts Students League and Parsons School of Design. Cohen has exhibited in Italy, Holland, New Jersey, New York and Ontario. His work is in numerous private collections. In 2015, he was awarded the International Art Prize Giuseppe Gambino in Venice, Italy.