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Watch Mary Evans in her NMWA Zoom studio visit

Last month, Mary Evans (the UK representative at Women to Watch 2020) was interviewed by Orin Zahra of NMWA. If you missed the talk, we do have a recording! Here is the link to watch.
Women to Watch: Every 2 or 3 years, the National Museum of Women in the Arts sends out a charge to its outreach committees: work with a leading curator to create a shortlist of emerging female artists connected to your region who work in a particular medium or theme. 
In 2020 the medium is paper. NMWA has chosen a Finalist from each participating committee who will have her work included in "Women to Watch 2020: Paper Routes" at NMWA. We will feature these artists from around the world in bi-weekly emails.  Look for them on alternate Tuesdays!

Meet Mira Burack chosen to represent New Mexico

Nominated by Laura Addison of the Museum of International Folk Art.
Mira Burack is engaged by the materials and living beings in her daily life – plants, textiles, animals, and family – and the interior and exterior spaces around her where meaningful life experiences take place - the bed, the landscape, the table, and the home. 

Through her artistic practice, Burack explores and shares the physical, psychological, and poetic qualities of these materials and spaces. What is the space between bodies and the materials around them? How do humans experience their possessions? How do these elements of daily life teach intimacy, engage the senses, provide comfort, heal, invite rest, and elicit pleasure?

Many of her projects explore the site of the bed and the legacy of sleep. She looks at experiences of sleep to reveal hidden layers of materiality and consciousness. Burack considers the bed to be a rich, contemplative site to look at our experience of rest in a swiftly-paced 21st century. In creating spaces, sculptures, rituals, and collages, she draws connections between the material and the immaterial, the horizontal and the vertical, the visceral and the technological, two dimensions and three dimensions, and ultimately, the conscious and unconscious.

Sun (Son), 2018, photography collage (of bedding). Work photographed by Eric Swanson.
(dark) Waterdrop, 2018, photography collage (of bedding). Work photographed by Eric Swanson.

Burack lives in the Ortiz mountains of New Mexico, was born in Boston, and grew up on the coast of Maine. She received her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art, and a BA in Studio Art and Psychology from Pepperdine University.

Mira Burack: From the Bed to the Mountain at the CUE Art Foundation in New York.
Thanks to Susan Cohen of Massachusetts State Committee of NMWA for the Women to Watch Finalists series.
The New Mexico Committee of NMWA has created an excellent series of interviews with the five artists who were nominated to represent their region in Women to Watch 2020. In this video, viewers can see how each artist works in her studio to create the work nominated for Women to Watch and listen to the artist speak in her own words about the meaning behind her practice.

 

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