Jan Wurm/ Winter Issue

Jan Wurm is an artist, educator, and curator engaged in expanding the community forum for contemporary art dialogue. Having lived in California, where she received a B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles, and Europe, where she received an M.A.R.C.A. from the Royal College of Art in London, Jan Wurm has honed an eye for social patterns and conventions. She currently divides her time between Berkeley and L.A. and her hand between drawing and painting.

As an artist, Wurm has been engaged by the familiar and challenged by the unknown.

Her paintings, drawings, and artist's books examine daily life to reveal aspects of contemporary culture which inform our relationships. This graphic body of work has spanned time and geography in over a hundred exhibitions in California, New York, Canada, England, the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, and Italy. Wurm has been the recipient of five grants from the Center for Cultural Innovation and a commission from the Del Sol String Quartet funded by Chamber Music America. ​​​

Infused with warmth, humor, and an energetic line, these paintings on canvas and mixed-media works on paper invite the viewer to contemplate the moment.