Miriam Mörsel Nathan

Drawing, Visual / Media

My work is informed by the landscape of fragmentation. I start with chance marks and then continue with intentional drawing, repetition and a combination of materials. I piece together fragments, line, marks, image. It is a process – the connecting of disparate parts. It is like filling in an incomplete narrative. It is like mending a pot. It is like making whole what is not whole at all. I choose to work only on paper. It might seem fragile but it can be torn, bent, made wet and still, it survives… like us.

About the Artist

Miriam Mörsel Nathan’s work was seen in Creative Quest: Art from the Holocaust’s 2nd Generation, Howard Community College, Columbia, MD (2022). Her work will be exhibited in 2024 at the American University Museum, Katzen Art Center, Washington, DC as well as in Photography of the Holocaust: Then & Now, Cepa Gallery, Buffalo, NY. Her work was included in Drawing Discourse, 13th Annual International Contemporary Drawing Exhibition (2022), Juror Catherine Murphy. In 2021 her work was included in Not Strictly Painting, Juror Foon Sham, McLean Project for the Arts & in SHIFT, Online Exhibition, Juror Sarah Tanguy in 2020. She had a solo show at the McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, VA in 2019 & exhibited in the Jerusalem Biennale in 2019. Miriam’s monoptype Greta was a Library of Congress Acquisition in 2021. She has received grants from the Arts & Humanities Council, Montgomery County, Arts & the Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation. Mörsel Nathan’s work will be used for Cover Art for the little book of e, a collection of haiku by E. Ethelbert Miller & was the Cover Image for Annie Kim’s award-winning poetry collection Into the Cyclorama. She was commissioned to create images to accompany Janice Hamer’s opera Lost Childhood which had its World Premiere, an Opera UCLA production, in May 2019.

Miriam Mörsel Nathan website miriammorselnathan.com