Mira Schor
Mira Schor is a painter. Her works simultaneously depict language, the materiality of painting, and the feeling of being embodied in relation to both.
In her immediately language-based works, a single word such as “flesh,” or “thing,” or simply “a” (possibly objet petit a) fills the modest canvas in simple script, trembling outwards into the contrasting color ground behind it. Her paintings of bodies vary from narrative to abstract: for example, seven orange pensises growing ears, a cartoon-like figures placed in space with speech bubbles illuminating their characters, or a vagina between or formed by punctuation marks. Schor’s current work focuses on 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. She works at the intersection of politic and theory and is noted for her for her contributions to feminist art history.
New York, NY
Born 1950, New York, NY
1973 MFA, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
1970 BA, New York University, New York, NY
www.miraschor.com