Marilyn Kirsch is an American artist, known for abstract and non-objective paintings often described as Lyrical Abstraction

Lyrical Abstraction

Lyrical Abstraction is either of two related but distinctly separate trends in Post-war Modernist painting, and a third definition is the usage as a descriptive term. It is a descriptive term characterizing a type of abstract painting related to Abstract Expressionism; in use since the 1940s...

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After earning her Bachelor of Fine Arts

Bachelor of Fine Arts

In the United States and Canada, the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, usually abbreviated BFA, is the standard undergraduate degree for students seeking a professional education in the visual or performing arts. In some countries such a degree is called a Bachelor of Creative Arts or BCA...

 degree from Massachusetts College of Art

Massachusetts College of Art

Massachusetts College of Art and Design is a publicly-funded college of visual and applied art, founded in 1873. It is one of the oldest art schools, the only publicly-funded free-standing art school in the United States, and was the first art college in the United States to grant an artistic degree...

 and Master of Fine Arts

Master of Fine Arts

A Master of Fine Arts is a graduate degree typically requiring 2–3 years of postgraduate study beyond the bachelor's degree , although the term of study will vary by country or by university. The MFA is usually awarded in visual arts, creative writing, filmmaking, dance, or theatre/performing arts...

 from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston is an undergraduate and graduate college located in Boston, Massachusetts, dedicated to the visual arts. It is affiliated with the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs in partnership with Tufts University...

, Kirsch moved to New York City

New York City

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 in 1976. In 1984 she moved to Philadelphia and returned to New York City in 2003, where she currently works in her Manhattan

Manhattan

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In addition to her oil paintings, Kirsch works with photography and photo-collage. She has also experimented with sculpture and solar etching.

External links

• http://www.marilynkirsch.com/: Marilyn Kirsch, Abstract Painting and Work on Paper
• http://www.ducts.org/12_06/html/art_gallery/kirsch.html: The Art of Marilyn Kirsch: A ‘Transcendental Minimalism’ By Michael Cook
• http://www.artinsight.com/lyrical_abstraction.html: Lyrical Abstraction as an Artform
• http://www.corpse.org/archives/issue_11/gallery/kirsch