Michael Mazur
Michael Mazur
Workspace Program Resident 1990
Working primarily as a printmaker and painter, Michael Mazur’s work was both figurative and abstract and his subjects ranged from landscapes to social documentation. Working in the studio in 1990, Michael Mazur’s work had a free form gestural quality to it. He created larger scale pulp paintings full of vibrant colors and affect. In Mazur’s “After Turner,” the pleasures of what has been abstracted from the landscape are romantically celebrated in a slab of paper pulp torn from a storm.
About the Artist
Michael Mazur (b. New York City, 1935-2009) attended the Horace Mann School before receiving a BA from Amherst College. He later earned an MFA from the Yale School of Art and Architecture. Mazur had participated in hundreds of group and solo exhibitions nationally and abroad. His work is included in many major collections, such as The Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MOMA, The Whitney Museum of Art, and the Metropolitan Museum in NYC. He lived with his wife, poet Gail Mazur, in both Cambridge and Provincetown, Massachusetts.
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