Jan Wurm/ Drawings

Jan Wurm –artist, educator, and curator—is engaged in expanding the community forum for contemporary art dialogue. Wurm has lived in California and Europe where her childhood was nestled in the Alps and where she honed an eye for social patterns, conventions, and place. In painting, drawing, or books, Wurm’s visual explorations are infused with warmth, humor, and energetic line. Exhibited internationally, her work is in collections including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, New York Public Library Print Collection, Archiv Verein der Berliner Künstlerinnen, and Universität für angewandte Kunst in Vienna.

Ink flows to mark speed. Conté crayon lingers for a warm and tender glow. Chinagraph searches to locate. Pastel colors and patterns the person and place. Charcoal carves and commits. Together they convey elements of identity, tension, connections or isolation.

Drawing captures life and time – however fleeting – in the movement of the hand and the touch of my fingers spreading chalk or charcoal to grasp the moment. The excitement, pleasure, anticipation: all are common and yet fresh and special and somehow uniquely marking a moment. Drawing is the tether to the daily, to the world around.