Stephen Cimini

New York City, New York

Stephen Cimini uses both oil and cold wax to create architectonic geometric pieces, expressed in color and movement.

Stephen Cimini is a New York City–based abstract artist whose work explores geometry, proportion, color, and architectural structure.

Working primarily with oil paint and cold wax medium, Cimini creates architectonic abstract paintings that balance careful planning with intuition.

His compositions often draw from architectural space, the golden mean, and what he describes as “random symmetry”—a sense of visual balance without an obvious repeating pattern.

Cimini’s surfaces are built through layers of paint, wax, scraping, and revision, allowing organic textures to emerge within a restrained geometric framework. Color plays a central role in the work, not simply as decoration, but as a structural element that shapes movement, tension, and emotional tone.

A recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, Cimini is primarily self-taught, with additional study at the San Francisco Art Institute and the School of Visual Arts in New York.

His work is held in private and corporate collections in the United States and internationally, including Coca-Cola Bottling Co., Novartis Pharmaceuticals, Wells Fargo Bank, Bayer Healthcare, and prominent law firms and corporations. He is represented by Carter Burden Gallery in New York City and exhibits in galleries throughout the United States.

For commissioned work, Cimini brings a strong sensitivity to proportion, surface, scale, and spatial balance. Each painting is created in response to a specific setting while remaining rooted in the visual language he has developed over more than two decades of painting.

"My work begins with logic—structure, proportion, and spatial decisions—but inspiration often arrives through the act of working, as the painting begins to reveal its own direction."