Jeffrey Abrams

Jeffrey Abrams was raised in a family surrounded by art, be it creating art or commercialization of art -letter designing, illustrating, painting and art publishing. From his early childhood on, there was no doubt that Jeffrey would follow in this tradition. His environment was rich in experiences and already as a young boy he dealt with translating these experiences into an art form. In an early age, at the height of Abstract Expressionism, he started his schooling in fine arts with painting classes at the Museum of Modem Art. As a teenager, he continued his training in the arts at the North Shore Community Arts Center on Long Island. As a young adult, he studied at the School of Visual Arts. It was here that he started to develop his unique sketching and painting style, which he has maintained to this day  

Rooted in his interest of the workings of the unconscious, he experiments with producing images which are consciously symbolic and which play on multiple meanings. He creates paintings and drawings, which appear to the casual viewer as an illustration of a dream world; however, the more patient or schooled viewer recognizes his methodologies, which provokes psychic responses similar to those, which originally provoked the paintings. In that sense he is not illustrating an unconscious dream world, as the Surrealists did, but he recreates an experience through an analogous artistic process.

Whereas Jeff's earlier works are created with oil on canvas using brush stokes, his recent work is created by a variety of mixed media on masonite.

Jeffrey Abrams' work was exhibited in several shows and sold to private collections in the US as well as in Europe.