1. Harriet Korman was born on 1947 and is an American abstract painter based in New York City, who first gained attention in the early 1970s.
11 Facts About Harriet Korman
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Harriet Korman is known for work that embraces improvisation and experimentation within a framework of self-imposed limitations that include simplicity of means, purity of color, and a strict rejection of allusion, illusion, naturalistic light and space, or other translations of reality.
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Harriet Korman has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and National Endowment for the Arts.
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Harriet Korman studied art at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and Queens College, where she received a fairly traditional, observation-based education in painting.
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In subsequent decades, Harriet Korman has had exhibitions at Galerie Ricke in Cologne; the Willard Gallery, Lennon, Weinberg and Thomas Erben Gallery in New York; Jancar Gallery and Daniel Weinberg Gallery ; Texas Gallery ; and Hausler Contemporary, among others.
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Harriet Korman's work is consistent in terms of thought and inquiry rather than a signature style, motif, process or movement.
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In 1976, Harriet Korman shifted to oil paints for greater flexibility and experimented with radically different directions, sometimes at the same time.
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The paintings generally emerge from monochromatic grounds built of layered color, onto which Harriet Korman painted notational dashes, squares and wavy strokes of contrasting color that suggest gently disintegrating grids or plaids, thatches of grass or abstract calligraphy.
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Harriet Korman has been recognized with a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in Painting and grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, and New York Foundation for the Arts.
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Harriet Korman has been awarded purchase prizes from the National Academy Museum, where she was elected to membership in 2006, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum.
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Harriet Korman has received artist residencies from the Edward F Albee Foundation and Yaddo.