Miriam Mörsel Nathan
American artist and writer
Miriam Mörsel Nathan is an American visual artist. Her work is abstract and process based. Through the mediums of drawing and printing, the use of repetition and a combination of materials, she seeks to connect disparate elements and fragments in her works on paper. The driving force behind the work is to make whole what is not whole at all. She is also a published poet.
Early life and education
Mörsel Nathan was born in 1947 in the Dominican Republic to Czech parents. In the late 1940s, they immigrated to Richmond, Virginia, where Mörsel Nathan spent her childhood. She received a Bachelor of Arts (1969) and a Master of Arts (1971) from The George Washington University. She attended the Corcoran College of Art & Design; New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting & Sculpture; and Fundación CIEC, Centro Internacional de la Estampa Contemporánea, Betanzos, La Coruña, Spain.
Career
Mörsel Nathan has had multiple solo exhibitions including I First Saw the World Through a Mosquito Net… [2] at the BBLA Gallery, Bohemian National Hall, in New York City (2014) and Memory of a time I did not know… [3] at the Ann Loeb Bronfman Gallery in Washington, D.C. (2010).
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