About

My work unnerves and invites. Mixing painting and drawing, I use ambiguous negative spaces to evoke a sense of dislocation.

My process is intuitive and direct; subtractive techniques create a sense of light and energy. I use unforgiving materials that resist erasure. Keeping the negative space as an active element in my compositions tempers my love for detail and creates dynamic surfaces.

My objective is to depict highly charged invisible forces that can be felt, not seen and to explore the images and spaces they inhabit.

Bio

Miriam Kurman is a New York City based visual artist. She attended 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 is currently exhibiting at Northwest Arts Center, Walter Piehl Gallery at Minot State University, ND. Recently she exhibited at Westminster College, PA; the CICA Museum in Gimpo-si, South Korea; Eyes/On/Art in New York, NY; Independent & Image Art Space in Chongqing, China; and Morris Gallery of Contemporary Art in Missouri. Solo exhibitions include the Esther Allen Greer Museum at University of Rio Grande, OH; John E. Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA; Bloomsburg University, PA; and Cazenovia College, NY. Select exhibitions include Morehead State University, KY; Bristol Art Museum, RI; and the Museum of the Hudson Highlands, NY.

Residencies awarded to Kurman include the Ucross Foundation and reviews in Newsday, Long Island, NY; and the New York Times.