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The mystery of worldly events and the underlying metaphysical phenomena compel me to look for "answers". To think that I can uncover the riddle of the Universe is absurd - but dig I must. As there are no definitive answers - and no definitive questions - my paintings are perforce ambiguous, implicit and open-ended. The abstract mode of painting for my purposes is the most liberating, the most probing and creative. I am thus able to "speak" the "non-speakable" made concrete to me for the first time with paint and canvas.
As corollary to this interest I attempt to understand the various levels of consciousness, particularly image formation in the preconscious mind: How do the wisps and fragments of an image look before coalescing in the waking or dream life or in an artwork? Although it is not possible to know what is happening precognitively, I attempt to make manifest this sphere of consciousness.
I do not strive so much for resolution as to foster a suspension of belief so that hopefully the viewer (and myself) may arrive at a new visual experience.
Miriam Hirschhorn
Exhibitions
Group Exhibition, Weill Cornell Medical Library, NYC, 2004
Group Exhibition, Community Gallery, NYC 2003
Group Exhibition, Joe & Emily Low Gallery, NYC, 2003
Small- Works Group Exhibition, 2/20 Gallery, NYC, Nov., 2001
Group Exhibition, Arai Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, June, 2001
Group Exhibition, Cork Gallery, Lincoln Center, NYC, June 2001
Three-Person Exhibition, SOHO20 Gallery, NYC, May, 2000
Group Exhibition, Federal Reserve Bank, NYC, November, 1999;
.............selected by the Director of Visual Arts of the Lower Manhattan Community Council
One-Person Exhibition, Lubin House Gallery, NYC, April, 1998,
.............selected by Dominec J. lacono, Professor, Curatorial Studies, Syracuse University
Group Exhibition, New World Art Center, NYC, 1998
Group Exhibition of Criticism Seminar held at Art Students League, NYC, 1996;
.............First Prize
Group Exhibition of National Association of Women Artists, NYC, 1994
Group Exhibition, Carlyse Gallery, NYC, 1994
Group Exhibition, Lincoln Square Gallery, NYC, April, 1994;
.............Artist's Choice Award by Vincent Malta, Juror
Group Exhibition, Ethical Culture Society, NYC, 1991 Group Exhibition, Brooklyn Arts & Cultural Assn., Brooklyn, NY;
.............First Prize; Manfred Schwartz, Juror
One-Person Exhibition, Downtown Communitv College, Brooklyn, NY
One-Person Exhibition, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NYEducation
Art Students League
Brooklyn Museum Art School
New York University
Syracuse UniversityProfessional Affiliations
Metropolitan Artists
Women in the Arts Foundation
Baranik Art Critique, Co-Founder