And they say you have to move to New York to make it. For JM Rizzi, it was the other way around.
Artist JM Rizzi moved from New York to Dallas, and became an international artist whose murals can be found across the globe.After moving from Brooklyn to North Texas 11 years ago, JM Rizzi became one of Dallas’ more notable artists, with publicly and privately funded murals and sculptures across the globe.
“There were not many artists in my life as a kid,” says Rizzi, “but there was a comic book store that opened up in my neighborhood. So many people who worked in there were aspiring comic artists, so I got to see them drawing. I used to copy a lot of comic books. That was what brought some attention to me. I was the artist in my family, in my school, in my neighborhood. It kind of became a thing I did.
Referencing artists Cy Twombly and Franz Kline as inspirations, Rizzi recalls one of the moments that shaped him while studying art and graphic design at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. “There’s always letters in there,” he says. “Those letters can change over time and they sort of come out organically. I tend to have a lot of circles in there, and I’ll use these dots as anchor points in the artwork. It helps to kind of anchor the movement I’m trying to convey in the paintings. It’s interesting, when I take those out, the piece has a different feel. It’s almost like the dots move your eye around the composition.
Non-representational in nature, Rizzi’s works are abstract expressionism above all else. His art contains scaling lines, abstract shapes and sharp boundaries with vivid color interactions, making them highly sought after when it comes to decorative murals.
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