TitleUntitled
Artist
Harriet Korman
(American, b. 1947)
Date2005
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 48 x 36 x 1 3/8 in.
SignedSigned on back of canvas
SubmissionNA diploma presentation, November 18, 2009
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY
Object number2009.25
Label TextNew York native Harriet Korman is an abstract painter who studied at Queens College with Richard Serra in the late 1960s. She is part of a generation of artists who came of age at a moment when the dominant forms of abstraction were being questioned. Korman's earliest works are in the process-based work from the 1970s composed of alternating bands of color within a grid-like framework. Over time her painting has become more curvilinear and improvisational and "Untitled" is a strong example of her current style. While still reliant on a process-based method, the artist carefully works the paintings up from drawings to create her richly chromatic compositions.
