Blue Monday | 2013, pencil and marker on paper, 8” x 12”
Orange 33rd St | 2013, pencil. marker, and monotype on paper, 13” x 15”
Moving Through 2 | 2013, pencil, watercolor, and marker on paper, 38” x 50”
Yesterdays’ Scraps | 2014, pencil, ink, marker, intaglio, acrylic collage adhered to panel, 12” x 18”
Park Rail | 2014, pencil, maker, silkscreen, monotype and acrylic on paper, 44” x 31”
Long Days | 2013, pencil, marker, watercolor on print collage on paper, 14” x 30”
Crowded | 2014, pencil, marker, monotype, and acrylic on paper, 16” x 25”
Municipal | 2014, pencil, marker, silkscreen, monotype, and acrylic collage adhered to panel, 12” x 18”
Upside Down World | 2013, pencil, marker, screen print, acrylic, and collage adhered to panel, 37” x 49”
Rainy 50th St | 2014, pencil, marker, monotype, and acrylic collage adhered to panel, 10” x 10”
Schuylkill Markings | 2014, pencil, ink, marker, and acrylic collage adhered to panel, 9“ x 12”
This Time | 2013, pencil, ink, marker, intaglio collage on paper adhered to panel, 12“ x 12”
Race St Hill | 2014, pencil,maker, monotype collage adhered to panel, 8” x 10”
Walkway | 2013, pencil, ink, marker, and intaglio on paper adhered to panel, 8" x 10”
Green Occupied 4 | 2013, pencil, watercolor, marker, and acrylic on paper, 50” x 38”
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Souvenirs | 2008, pencil, marker, and acrylic on paper, 15” x 11”
Fords and Tires 2 | 2009, pencil, marker, silkscreen, monotype on paper, 26” x 20”
 Fords and Tires 4 | 2010, pencil, silkscreen, acrylic, marker, monotype collage on paper, 50” x 39”
Above-ground | 2007, acrylic and mixed print media collage on wood, 10" x 8”
North-Route | 2010, pencil, marker, watercolor on paper, 12”x 18”
 Parkside | 2010, pencil, ink, marker, watercolor on paper, 30” x 12”
Columbus Ave Map | 2009, pencil, marker and monotype on paper, 22"x 30"
Wood St | 2008, pencil, marker, and acrylic on paper, 20" x 26"
 Imaginary Map I | 2005, pencil, ink, marker on paper, 17-1/2" x 12”
Off Girard | 2006, pencil, lithography, monotype on paper, 22” x 15"
Transit Daydreams | 2008, pencil, marker, acrylic,collage on paper, 12” x 12”
Built-up 2 | 2009, pencil, ink, marker, monotype on paper, 22" x 30"
Outersunset | 2010, pencil, marker, watercolor on paper, 22'' x 15”
Delaware Hill 2 | 2010, pencil, marker, watercolor on paper, 26” x 20”
40th St Electric | 2010, pencil, silkscreen, marker, photo litho, monotype on paper, 6” x 8”
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Member Portfolio

Miriam Singer

Philadelphia, PA

Résumé

Artist Statement

My drawings look perceptually at multiple locations in Philadelphia and are then worked through memory, eventually becoming a fictional cityscape created with a playful approach. I walk by the river and explore streets, describe noise and time through a stacking of shapes, color, and repetitive patterns. Squares provide the basic measurement of this imagined urban landscape in which a finished and unfinished moment in time coexist on the same field. Sometimes it may appear as a crowded future, only without people, or it may appear empty, like something from the distant past.
One day is added to the next day with markers, pencil, prints, glue, and paint, and imagery is added from smaller drawings, intaglio, screen prints, and sketchbooks. A fragmented day or a day that merged into the next are represented by a visual labyrinth of shapes. A drawing I made in the park yesterday changes drastically tomorrow. In the beginning my process is additive, but often the drawing increases in density and I hide and remove imagery and color. I am interested expressing the fragmentation of a fictional city as a collage of noise, pattern, and density. The city metaphorically building and disappearing at once, as a metaphor for the way time changes and fluctuates.

Artist Biography

Miriam Singer received her BA in Sociology and Studio Art from Brandeis University in 2000, and her MFA in Painting, with a concentration in Printmaking, from Massachusetts College of Art in 2003. Since moving to Philadelphia in 2004, she has exhibited at LG Tripp Gallery, Friends of the Print and Picture Collection, Art in the Airport, James Oliver Gallery, Gallery Siano, Inliquid at Painted Bride, Art in City Hall, Topstitch, Spector Gallery, Gallery at Minnow, and Padlock Gallery. Singer uses a combination of printmaking and drawing media to create her unique works on paper and designs for public art projects. Noted public art projects with The Philadelphia Mural Arts Program include Southeast by Southeast, 2013; Under The Clothespin, 2012; and Take Me to the River, 2010. Singer's accumulated imagery becomes layered and busy with impressions of the cityscape. Singer is currently a LG Tripp Gallery Artist and a current member of Space 1026.

Education

2003
Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
MFA in Painting, concentration in Printmaking
2000
Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
BA, Studio Art, Sociology
summa cum laude

Awards & Honors

2000
Mitchell Siporin Award, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Brandeis Arts Festival, Materials Grant, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
1999
Remis Summer Fellowship, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
1998
Sachar Foundation for Independent Research, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

Bibliography

2014
Fabbri, Anne, “A gallery stroll in Old City,” Broad Street Review, September 14, 2014
2012
Hahn, Ashley, "Under The Clothespin Revealed," Plan Philly April 3, 2012
2010
Newhall, Edith, "2 at LGTripp," The Philadelphia Inquirer, October 31
Schwartz, Chip, "Abstract Processes fuel two at LGTripp and two at Bridgette Mayer," The Art Blog, November 18
Gates, Kellie Patrick, "A chance to see new Penn Treaty Park Inspired art and artifacts," Plan Philly, December 1
2009
Melamed, Samantha, "Quick and Dirty Street Art Drawing Viewers to the River", Philadelphia Inquirer, October 7
2008
Rosof, Libby “Studio Visit-Miriam Singer Maps The City” artblog, July 28, 2008
2007
Rosof, Libby “Beyond the Fringe-Miriam Singer at The Bride” artblog, September 3, 2007
Newhall, Edith “Summery, Summary” Philadelphia Inquirer, August 3, 2007
Newhall, Edith “Fab Four” The Philadelphia Inquirer, February 16, 2007
Publications
2011
By The River, Zine of the Month, Philadelphia, PA, August 2011

Professional Experience

2013 - 2014
Printmaking Faculty, Intro to Etching, Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA
2013
Lead Artist, Southeast by Southeast, Philadelphia Mural Arts Program, Philadelphia, PA
2012
Artist, Digging The City, Independence Seaport Museum and URS Corporation, Philadelphia, PA
2011
Co-curator, Detour Window at R.E.Load Bags, Philadelphia, PA
Lead Artist, Under The Clothespin, Philadelphia Mural Arts Program, Philadelphia PA
Instructor, Intro to Screenprinting, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
2010 - 2013
Adjunct Professor, Intro to Screen-printing, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
2009 - 2010
Lead Artist, Take Me To The River, Philadelphia Mural Arts Program, Philadelphia PA
Instructor, Philadelphia Mural Arts Program, Philadelphia, PA
Instructor, Young Artist Workshop, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA
Visiting Artist, Continuing Education Program , University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2008
Instructor, Visual Studies Department, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA

Other
2013
Environments Here and There, Printmaking Portfolio Exchange, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
2008
Rolling Canvas Artist Collective, Media Bureau, Philadelphia, PA

Exhibitions

2014
Miriam Singer: Endless Day, LGTripp Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Making Our Mark, Star Wheel Printers, Avenue Gallery at The Gershwin Y, Philadelphia, PA Invitational
2013
The Afterlife: CityWide, Space 1026 Collective at Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA
Zine of The Month Retrospective, Booklyn Art Gallery; Brooklyn, NY
Invitational
Curator: Mark Price
Points of View, Community Arts Center, Wallingford, PA
Invitational
2012
Works on Paper, LG Tripp Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Invitational
Curator: Luella Tripp
2011
Raw Hide, James Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2010
Built Up, LGTripp Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Transit Daydreams, Philadelphia International Airport, Philadelphia, PA
Part of Philagrafika 2010
On The Rise; Inaugural Exhibition of Philadelphia Emerging Artists, The Art Gallery At City Hall, Philadelphia, PA
Urbania, Luke and Eloy Gallery, Pittsburg, PA
Premiere, LGTripp Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2007
De’rive Dreams, Inliquid at Bride, The Painted Bride Arts Center, Philadelphia, PA
Curator: John Murphy
Survey: Summer 2007, Gallery Siano, Philadelphia, PA
Curator: Luella Tripp
Art of the City, Art in The City Hall, Philadelphia, PA,
Curator: Cavin Jones
In-Habit, Honeymilk Gallery at Topstitch, Philadelphia, PA
Curator: Carrie Powell
February Exhibition, Gallery Siano, Philadelphia, PA
Curator: Luella Tripp
2006
What a Relief!: The Woodcut in Contemporary Printmaking, The Philadelphia Print Collaborative at Spector Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Curator: Shelley Langdale
Logan’s Run: prints, drawings, paintings, and other from artists under 30, Padlock Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Curator: Damian Jared Weinkrantz
2005
Birds, Birds, Birds, Gallery at Minnow, Philadelphia, PA
Curator: Bryan Winters
Lubrica Mi Vida, Diane Ashley Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Curator: Damian Jared Weinkrantz
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