A.M. Richard Fine Art is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by Jacqueline Cedar. For her first exhibition at A.M. Richard Fine Art, Ms. Cedar presents three large scale and evocatively titled paintings: Under a Black Star, See the Setting Sun and Hand on Shoulder, Hand on Head.

The artist’s compositions are dynamic, colorful and rich in perceptive complexities. Well versed in a dense vocabulary of figural movement, Ms. Cedar succeeds in poetically translating human drama and staging a vast scale of emotions.

A profound and uncommon analytical narrative runs through Ms. Cedar’s paintings. Culled from the density of life’s stages, bodies stand, float, crouch, lean, crawl, rest and fall. Are these natural steps or forced poses of contortions? Are the figures at pain or play? Are the enacted gestures of compassion or aggression? there lies the duplicitous conflicts of Ms. Cedar’s unsettling subjects. Space is both condensed and fragmented, pulling, pushing and breaking into new perspectives of prismatic light. Ms. Cedar has assimilated conventional axioms of early 20th century isms-Cubism, Futurism, Surrealism, Fauvism-and conceived a rich and vivacious pictorial language to call her own.

Ms, Cedar, a California native, is a recent graduate of the M.F.A. program at Columbia University. She is the recipient of a Three Arts Fellowship and an Emma B. Keller award.