Featured Artist

Richard DeCosmis

The visceral paintings of Richard DeCosmis are a product of brilliant vision and hard earned experience. As a police officer, DeCosmis deals with struggle in a physical sense. His keen perception of the human experience informs his painting. Completely free of trite or gratuitous decoration, his paintings are containers of physically painted energy, experience and vision. The paintings are consummate works of expression.
DeCosmis uses his brush to record his sense of experience. The marks
display a rugged impassioned beauty. Earthen and atmospheric hues tie
together semblances of figuration. His work maintains a close tie to the
body, land and sky. Though never explicit, his work implies subtleties of
representation through texture, rough shape and line. There is a pulsating liveliness that is never overstated. DeCosmis perfectly balances release with restraint. His colors show a discerning eye for space and shadow. For this reason, his paintings have a mysterious representational quality that dissolves as the viewer draws nearer to the work.

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