Nola zirin biography

Nola Zirin is a New York native and maintains a studio in Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York.
Zirin is a native of New York City.
Nola Zirin is a New York native and maintains a studio in Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York.

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NOLA ZIRIN

Nola Zirin is a New York native and maintains a studio in Long Island City, New York. She received a bachelor's degree from New York University, where she studied painting with Milton Resnick and George Ortman. She also studied printmaking with Bob Blackburn and Donn Steward. Her work has been shown in many one person and group shows throughout the United States and abroad, most recently with her 8th solo exhibition at June Kelly Gallery in New York City. She is represented in numerous public and corporate collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MOMA, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, the National Museum of Taiwan and the Library of Congress. Zirin's shows have been reviewed in Artnews (Cynthia Nadelman), Art in America (Cathy Lebowitz), Art News (Ruth Bass), Philadelphia Inquire (Miriam Seidel), The New York TImes (Helen Harrison and Phylis Braff) among others. Zirin is a member of the American Abstract Artist Association.

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Nola Zirin Bio

The June Kelly Gallery is pleased to present Nola Zirin in her eleventh exhibition with the gallery. Her recent work, The Sound of Color, reflects her long-time passion for painting and jazz. The exhibition will open at 166 Mercer Street on June 6 and remain on view until July 30.

Zirin writes about the process in which �one sense comes through as another.� The correlation of sound and color is called synesthesia. For many contemporary artists, she says, color is a subject that affects visual perception and emotional energy. Russian-born artist Vasily Kandinsky employed synesthesia, pursuing paintings and lines that mimicked the parallels between sound and color. �Color influences the soul,� Kandinsky once wrote. �Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammers, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another purposively, to cause vibrations in the soul.�

Zirin says I often listen to music in my studio and

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Nola Zirin

Artist Statement:

The focus of my work is geo-abstract thinking. Primary shapes, and the spaces between primary forms, the silent moments between thoughts and the shifting inside or outside of form – what that space represents through geo manifestation within the emptiness of space itself as it corresponds to define geo form. In this unexpected asymmetrical area, it prompts spatial discovery and occurrence – I find action, and resolve through execution.
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Artist Biography:

Nola Zirin is a New York native and maintains a studio in Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York. She received a bachelor’s degree from New York University, where she studied painting with Milton Resnick and George Ortman. She also studied printmaking with Bob Blackburn and Donn Steward. Her work has been shown in many one person and group shows throughout the United States and abroad, most recently with her 8th solo exhibition at June Kelly Gallery in New York City. She is represented in numerous public and corporate collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art