Miriam Beerman, Bending the Grid: Compassionate Monsters/Wrathful Lambs: The Work of Miriam Beerman (installation detail), 2006 |
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April 28th, 2006 - July 8th, 2006
Curator: Dominique Nahas
Compassionate Monsters/Wrathful Lambs: The Work of Miriam Beerman is the first major exhibition of Beerman’s installation drawings and books. It is presented as the fourth exhibition in an ongoing series of shows, initiated in 2003, entitled Bending the Grid. This series is committed to the work of artists of diverse backgrounds over the age of 60 who have made significant contributions to the field but generally have been underrecognized. Born in 1923, painter Miriam Harriet Beerman has been a leading artistic figure in the Montclair, New Jersey area for more than three decades. Her visionary work has gained her many supporters over the years, while she has simultaneously garnered a reputation for being a passionate and rigorous teacher of painting and printmaking.
Curated by noted critic and writer Dominique Nahas, Compassionate Monsters/Wrathful Lambs: The Work of Miriam Beerman includes never-before-seen drawings by the artist as well as eight of her terra-cotta sculptures, presented publicly for the first time. This exhibition incorporates videos of the artist reading passages by poets Rainer Maria Rilke and Halvard Johnson, which are the undercurrents of her thought and whose words are drawn alongside her imagery in her two major books of drawings 3 Sentences with the Letter S (1997) and Washing the Corpse (1999-2000). Additionally, Beerman has created two unprecedented Gesamtkuntwerks—major installation drawings produced expressly for Aljira entitled Compassionate Monsters and Wrathful Lambs.
Come hear Miriam Beerman talk about her work with curator Dominique Nahas. More information here.
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