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Mira Schor, The Painter's Studio

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Statement

Mira Schor is a painter whose work balances political and theoretical concerns with formalist and material passions. Her work has included major periods in which gendered narrative and representation of the body have been featured; in other periods the focus of her work has been representation of language in drawing and painting. The central theme in recent paintings is the experience of living in a moment of radical inequality, austerity, and accelerated time, set against the powerful pull of older notions of time, craft, and visual pleasure. Schor’s current work focuses on the experience of living in a moment of radical inequality, austerity, pandemic panic, and accelerated time, set against the powerful pull of older notions of time, craft, and visual pleasure. She works at the intersection of politic and theory and is noted for her for her contributions to feminist art history.
Artwork Info
Date 2020
Dimensions 119 x 228 inches
Medium Ink, acrylic, and gesso on tracing paper
Artist Info
Born New York, NY
Works New York, NY

Reflecting on this Year

From 2016 through 2019 much of my work was created in response to specific political and humanitarian outrages of the trump regime & ran hot in color & expression (cf. supporting material). In 2020 I shifted to cooler, more philosophical work examining the creative life of the woman artist & what it means to be an artist at the possible end of history. Many of the works presented symbolic figures & language within an interior space, anticipating our enclosure during the pandemic. The Painter’s Studio is a feminist reprise of Courbet’s opus mundi. Here the Painter is a woman and the viewer of her work is patriarchy represented by a flying orange phallus with an all-seeing monocular eye. The passage of time is indicated in the different ages of the artist, starting as a child drawing in the corner, a skull, and in a clock set at 11PM.

Biography

Mira Schor is a New York-based artist and writer. Her work has been included in exhibitions at The Jewish Museum; Hammer Museum; MoMA P.S.1; and Aldrich Museum. She is the author of A Decade of Negative Thinking: Essays on Art, Politics, and Daily Life (2009), Wet: On Painting, Feminism, and Art Culture (1997), and the blog A Year of Positive Thinking. She was co-editor of the journal M/E/A/N/I/N/G. Schor is the recipient of prestigious awards including the Guggenheim Fellowship in Painting, the Pollock-Krasner Grant, the CAA’s Frank Jewett Mather Award in Art Criticism, Creative Capital /Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant, and the 2019 Women’s Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award for her work as a feminist painter, art historian and critic. She teaches at Parsons Fine Arts and is a 2019/2020 artist in residence at the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, Brooklyn. Schor is represented by Lyles & King Gallery, NY.

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