Jeffrey Koster (1944–2024) was a vital part of the SoHo and Greenwich Village art community in the 1970s and 80s, before leaving New York City for Miami in the wake of the AIDS crisis. He never ceased creating, continuing his lifelong artistic journey in Florida. 

His work has been represented in New York by the Greer Gallery, Allan Stone Gallery, OK Harris, and Gallery 10, and in Florida by Art Fusion.

Landscape is the starting point in Koster’s extensive and varied body of work — painted with naturalistic detail or developed through ever-increasing levels of abstraction into works of remarkable imagination. Uniquely personal surrealist architectural elements join natural forms, creating impossible vistas. Repetition of forms within nature creates rhythms that imply not only space, but time. Recent paintings bring light itself into the realm of abstraction, capturing the sense of the truly cosmic.

Whether representational or abstract, Koster’s works are executed with masterful rendering of form, color, light, shadow, and reflection. 

With the recent discovery of a treasure trove of over 100 new paintings, Koster’s full body of work is now available to view for the very first time.

Adapted in part from Art Fusion Galleries.