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http://ayearofpositivethinking.com/2013/02/10/on-being-a-lady/
Mira Schor blogs about the exhibition To Be a Lady: Forty-five Women in the Arts, curated by Jason Andrew, at at 1285 Avenue of the Americas Gallery, New York, on view through March 22, 2013.
Schor writes: "I figure that since the show is divided into two parts, installed along two separate sections of the space, with one side featuring the works of women artists who are deceased, and the other side featuring those of us still among the living, I feel that I can safely recommend the dead without incurring controversy among the other living artists in the show or referring to my own work in it or the ramifications of the word 'lady, ' which I know has stirred some controversy. Curator Jason Andrew of Norte Maar has assembled some terrific work in this show, a diverse group of works by notable artists and artists that some may be less familiar with, and in each case has included a very good example of the artist’s work, and in some cases quite a surprising one. Again, I am just talking about the dead. The works are grouped in open bays or booths, creating in effect small mini-exhibitions with some interesting synergies."
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http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/798722/27-questions-for-artist-and-critic-mira-schor
Chloe Wyma interviews painter Mira Schor on the occasion of the exhibition Mira Schor: Voice and Speech at Marvelli Gallery, New York, on view through April 28, 2012.
Asked about scale in painting Schor replies: "Modest paintings don't necessarily have to be small, and small paintings are not necessarily modest. I'm advocating for a kind of potent expressive reserve that can exist within intimacy, perhaps, but also for painting that is more committed to criticality, rigor and ambition for painting itself than to overpowering the viewer with the size of the work or the ego of the artist. In an age of the world dominance of the 1 percent of the 1 percent, art venues that demand the spectacular, and the empty calories of 'supersize me,' the stakes are emotional, intellectual, and even moral."
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http://looksee.chrisashley.net/?p=7122
Chris Ashley writes about the work of Mira Schor on the occasion of the exhibition Mira Schor: Painting in The Space Where Painting Used to Be at Some Walls, Oakland, through December 18, 2011.
In his essay Ashley notes: "What scale in painting is really about is the relationship of all the painting’s components - what is depicted, material, color, line, stroke, etc., but also the subject and content of the painting - to the surface and the size of the painting: an integrated, holistic entity that, in addition to its own actual size, can suggest grandness or intimacy, or something in between and appropriate to the painting's subject... Schor's paintings may be small in size, but the scale of her work is ambitious and generous."
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http://www.x-traonline.org/current_articles.php?articleID=442
In the Fall 2011 issue of X-TRA, Mike Minelli reviews the exhibition Mira Schor: Paintings From The Nineties To Now at CB1 Gallery.
Minelli writes: "For Schor, the surface of her paintings is a skin. Or to borrow a Lacanian phrase, a 'stadium' upon which subjectivity comes to be written by an ever-shifting series of conscious and unconscious events. And it is upon this public surface/space/body where pre-linguistic meaning in other words, affect meets the signifier head on."
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http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2010/12/art-review-mira-schor-at-cb1-gallery.html
Culture Monster's Christopher Knight reviews Mira Schor paintings at CB1 Gallery. Knight writes "Language is a common image, especially in the earlier work, in which words such as "lack," "trace," "sign" and "silence" meditate on the range of qualities a painted object can and cannot accommodate."
