Jeffrey Wasserman was an Abstract art

Abstract art

Abstract art uses a visual language of form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world. Western art had been, from the Renaissance up to the middle of the 19th century, underpinned by the logic of perspective and an...

ist who became known in New York in the 1980s for his colorful and expressive oil paintings.

He was an early pioneer in Soho and showed his work extensively in the East Village and Soho during the 1980s and 1990s. He was closely allied with artists Jeff Koons

Jeff Koons

Jeffrey "Jeff" Koons is an American artist known for his reproductions of banal objects—such as balloon animals produced in stainless steel with mirror finish surfaces....

, Peter Halley

Peter Halley

-Early Life and Career:Halley first came to prominence as a result of the geometric paintings rendered in intense day-glo colours that he produced in the early 1980s. His practice as an artist is usually associated with minimalism, neo-geo, and neo-conceptualism...

 and Saint Clair Cemin

Saint Clair Cemin

Saint Clair Cemin is a sculptor.He studied at the École Nationale Superiore des Beaux Arts in Paris, France, in 1975, and moved to New York in 1978, to live and work. Saint Clair Cemin currently shows with the Brent Sikkema Gallery in New York City...

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Wasserman died of cancer at his home on July 2, 2006.

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