OUR FUTURE exhibition artist | MIRIAM KURMAN
“Between Ambiguous Loss and Tenuous Hope” explores an otherworldly space of highly charged energy. My work unnerves and invites. Mixing painting and drawing it often evokes ambiguous negative spaces to create a sense of dislocation.
What unconsciously emerged in these intense, kinetic works were glimpses of bird imagery, in light or slightly shaded negative space. In the unnatural silence of a great city without its usual street noise, the sounds of songbirds became a prominent daily occurrence. As losses escalated, this reminder of the natural world prevailing gave hope, however tenuous.
Miriam Kurman is a New York based visual artist. She attended the Rhode Island School of Design and received a BFA with Honors from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY where she was distinguished as a Studio Scholar and awarded a Ford Foundation Grant.
Kurman will be in an upcoming exhibition in 2023 at the CICA Museum in Gimpo-si, South Korea. Her work has been exhibited in New York City at the Maggi Peyton Gallery-Manhattan Borough President’s Office; the Makor/Steinhardt Center of the 92nd Street Y; Synagogue for the Arts; and Just Above Midtown/Downtown. Other exhibitions include: The Esther Allen Greer Museum at University of Rio Grande, OH; The John E. Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA, Minot State University, ND; Bloomsburg University, PA; Cazenovia College, NY; Northport Galleries, NY; Morehead State University, KY; Vermont College of Union Institute & University, VT; Bristol Art Museum, RI; Appalachian State University, NC; Museum of the Hudson Highlands, NY; and Rockland Center for the Arts, NY.
Artist in Residence programs include: Makor/Steinhardt Center of the 92nd Street Y, NYC; Palenville Interarts, NY; Cummington Community of the Arts, MA; N.Y. Mills Arts Retreat, MN; Ucross Foundation, WY; and the Woodstock School of Art, NY.
Kurman has been reviewed in the New York Times; New York Newsday; the Observer, Long Island, NY; and the Lexington Herald-Leader, KY, amongst other publications.
