Ferst, Jeff

Jeff Ferst paints "geometrical landscapes," essentially abstract canvases combining blocks of vivid color and curvlinear forms, out of which emerge elements of nature, buildings and the human form. Ferst's paintings are energetic and celebratory, tactile and visual, grounded in reality and musical in feeling. Ferst was born in the Bronx in New York City in 1955. As a child, he was involved in drawing and painting, and through his mother he was exposed to art in New York's museums. Ferst went on to major in printmaking (specializing in serigraphs) at New York University From his college days, a...