Biography

Carolyn Boriss-Krimsky, a native New Yorker, is a visual artist, arts writer and playwright. She graduated from New York University, where she worked with master printmaker Robert Blackburn and Mercedes Matter, founder of the New York Studio School in Greenwich Village.

In Cambridge, MA, Boriss-Krimsky co-founded and co-directed the Sacramento Street Gallery and created and ran an innovative studio art salon for young children and teenagers called Artspace. As a visual artist, she is best known for monotypes that merge painting, collage and printmaking into multilayered visual poetry. She describes her visual work as, "open pages of wordless books, exploring vulnerability, and the borders between chaos and order."

After teaching in public schools, art studios, mental health centers and at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, she published an art education book in 1999 called The Creativity Handbook, meant to demystify the art experience for parents and teachers and to better support the authentic artistic vision of the child/adolescent. Selections from her published arts writing include: "The Art of Public Conversation: A Look at Anna Deavere Smith and the Institute on the Arts and Civic Dialogue, "(ArtsAround Boston, Summer 2000), "Self-taught Art; Who Are the Outsiders in ‘Outsider’ Art?" (Art New England, December 2000/January 2001), "Yoko Ono: Art of the Mind" (Art New England, October/November 2001), and" Multimedia Pioneer ; An Interview with Yoko Ono, (Ruminator Review, 2002).

A member of the Playwrights Continuum at the Players Club and the Writers Forum at the Manhattan Theatre Source, both developmental labs for playwrights, Boriss-Krimsky also attends HB Studio playwriting workshops in the West Village with Donna de Matteo, and Julie McKee. A two time finalist for the Estrogenius Festival of short plays at the Manhattan Theatre Source in 2009 and 2010, her work often explores disconnection, loss, boundaries, obsession , love and art. Her plays include,"Taxi Dreams," (The Living Room Plays, HB Playwrights Theater, NYC, 2009 and The Ingenious Festival, Manhattan Theatre Source, NYC, 2010), "For Art," (The Restaurant Plays, HB Playwrights Theatre, NYC, 2010), "Movie Date," and "One Night Stand," (Woman as Mother, Roy Arias Theater, NYC, 2010).

Carolyn Boriss-Krimsky | carolynbk@comcast.net