Tomorrow will be the first day and the opening reception for our next exhibition, Mira Schor: Paintings From The Nineties To Now. Mira is a New York artist and author, and this show will be the first major survey of Mira’s work to be shown in Los Angeles. Here are some details about Mira and the exhibition:
November 20 – January 9, 2011
Opening Reception: Sat., November 20, 5 – 8 p.m.
CB1 Gallery, Downtown Los Angeles
Mira Schor’s paintings exist on the razor’s edge between visual and verbal language, between formalism and politics. A conceptual artist who is a painter’s painter, a feminist who is an odd inheritor of the approaches to painting of the New York School, Schor’s primary subject is the co-existence of embodiment and thought within the material and pictorial surface of painting. Using the materiality and meaning of these two sets of languages, Schor references femininity and intellectualism, the body in wartime, the politicization of the personal, the self-portrait of thought. Mira Schor: Paintings From The Nineties To Now is the first major survey of Schor’s work to be shown in Los Angeles.
“I chose handwriting as image when I had arrived at the portal of that end zone of painting, monochromatic abstraction. I no longer wanted to represent, in the sense of picturing the body, except through the bodily qualities of oil paint itself. In a sense, I was searching for the equivalent for me of Cézanne’s apples, something simple that would allow me to paint paint.”
–Mira Schor, “Poetry Plastique,” 2001
More details can be found on our exhibition page. We also published an essay Mira Schor: Making Thought Material, Painting (the Act of) Painting, by Amelia Jones. You can read a PDF version, or come by the gallery and pick one up! 
Semi-colon in a Flesh Comma, 1993
Flesh, 1997
The Interruption, 2010
