James Rizzi
JM Rizzi aka JMR is a New York raised artist. His work has roots in Abstract Expressionism, yet favors a Neo Contemporary flare. JMR has catapulted his vision of painting bold curves and lines punched with bright color.
Born in Brooklyn, NY in 1975, JMR came into contact both with street art and the established art world early on in life, and was influenced by them from then on. He graduated from the New York School of Visual Arts in 1997. Setting as his goal the convergence of the two styles that hold sway over him, JMR creates renderings of early abstract expressionists’ ideas in his own view.
Well travelled with his art as both a Street Artist and Fine Art painter, JMR’s imagery has become iconic in his native New York City and his home in Dallas. After a building-sized mural at the Pod Hotel in Manhattan, and major commissioned projects around Brooklyn, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago and Hong Kong, JMR now raises his brush with the determined statement on motion, scale -and sheer power.
A great symphony of shapes pulsating into one another, JMR’s paintings are at once, serious and sensual, energetic and fearless. His strong black lines caress blank space or beckon to color. These are the mature works of a painter in his prime.
Born in Brooklyn, NY in 1975, JMR came into contact both with street art and the established art world early on in life, and was influenced by them from then on. He graduated from the New York School of Visual Arts in 1997. Setting as his goal the convergence of the two styles that hold sway over him, JMR creates renderings of early abstract expressionists’ ideas in his own view.
Well travelled with his art as both a Street Artist and Fine Art painter, JMR’s imagery has become iconic in his native New York City and his home in Dallas. After a building-sized mural at the Pod Hotel in Manhattan, and major commissioned projects around Brooklyn, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago and Hong Kong, JMR now raises his brush with the determined statement on motion, scale -and sheer power.
A great symphony of shapes pulsating into one another, JMR’s paintings are at once, serious and sensual, energetic and fearless. His strong black lines caress blank space or beckon to color. These are the mature works of a painter in his prime.
Houston TX
