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 Carolyn Boriss-Krimsky, a native New Yorker, is a painter, printmaker, art educator and multimedia arts writer with a focus on the avant-garde. She studied art at the School of Visual Arts (NYC), the Art Students League in Woodstock, NY and 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 cofounded and codirected a community
art gallery and created and ran an innovative studio art salon for young
children, teenagers and adults 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 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 a book in
1999 called The Creativity Handbook, meant to demystify art for
parents and teachers and to provide skills to better support the
authentic artistic vision of the child/adolescent. Selections from
her published arts writings 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, Summer, 2002).
© 2007 | Carolyn Boriss-Krimsky | carolynbk@comcast.net |
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