Sculptures

Miriam’s life as an artist began as a sculptor. She is 15 or 16 in the early photo included here and was already receiving recognition for her portraiture. She had the uncanny ability to render in three dimensions a true copy of what she was taking in visually. She worked effectively both additively, building up the piece in clay or another medium, and subtractively, carving away material such as wood or stone.

Through time her work became much less reflective of the physical world around her, more abstract. To quote from the Wikipedia article, “Abstract art uses a visual language of shape, form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world.” Miriam came a long way from her representational roots as she explored the range of possibilities in sculpture.