Ora Lerman:Biographical Information
Education
- 1969 Pratt Institute Graduate Fine Arts,
Painting MFA, with Art History studies, Columbia Graduate School, NYC
- 1963-65 Fulbright Research, Japan, Tama Art
University, Private studies in calligraphy
and sumi-ye
- 1961-63 Brooklyn Museum Art School, NYC, Painting
- 1960 Antioch College, Ohio; Fine Arts, BA
Teaching
- Professor of Art Suffolk Community College: 1971-1998
Awards
- 1992 National Endowment for the Arts:
Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Regional Fellowship
- 1989 International Exchange of Scholars:
Indo-American Fellowship, India
- 1988 Reader's Digest Artists in Residence at Giverny, France
- 1988 Pennsylvania State Council on the Arts Grant: Visual Arts
Fellowship
- 1984 Andrew Mellon Fellowship
- 1980 Ossabaw Island Foundation Fellowship
- 1979 Lerman watercolor presented to Isabel Bishop at White House related ceremony
- 1978 CAPS Finalist, Nex York State Council for the Arts
- 1977 State University of New York Research Grant in Painting: Four-time recipient, 1977,1976,1974,1972
- 1977 MacDowell Colony Fellowship
- 1970,72 Outstanding Young Women of America Award: Two-time recipient
- 1963 Fulbright Award, Japan
Commissions
- 1990-5 Mural with bas-relief, Percent for Art/New York, Awards P.S. 176, NYC
- 1991 Finalist, Philadelphia International Airport
- 1991 Lithograph edition, "The Night of the Empire
Fellowship Purim Crown," The Jewish Museum, NYC
Solo Exhibitions Selected
- 1995 The Joseph Gallery, "Inside the Ark", mural, NYC
- 1995 Anita Shapolsky Gallery, "Inside the Ark", drawings, NYC
- 1988 Poulain Museum, Vernon, France
- 1982 Bernice Steinbaum, NYC; Catalogue, Ill., Essay bv Ann Sutherland Harris
- 1977 "Women Artist Series", Rutgers University, N.J, NEA sponsored; Catalogue, Ill.
- 1977 Prince Street Gallery, NYC
- 1974 Prince Street Gallery, NYC
- 1971 Prince Street Gallery, NYC
Group Exhibitions Selected--after 1985
- 1994 Pelham Art Center, "Masks", Pelham, N.Y.
- 1994 Brooke Alexander Gallery, "Ticket Art", OIA, NYC
- 1994 Pelham Art Center, "The Narrative Edge", Pelham, NY, NY Times Review
- 1993 380 Gallery, "Animal Magnetism", NYC
- 1992 Union Art Gallery, "Humor with Color", Stony Brook, NY
- 1990 Staller Center for the Arts, SUNY Stony Brook, "Fantastic
Journeys", NY Times Review
- 1989 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, "Hard Choices/Just Rewards",
Traveling exhibit of work by recipients of Visual Arts Fellowships
- 1988 Poulain Museum, Vernon, France
- 1988 Museum of Modern Art, "Committed to Prints", NYC
- 1988 Owensboro Museum of Fine Arts, "The Experienced Eye", Catalogue, Ill.,KY
- 1987 PPOW Gallery, "Heresies: Issues That Won't Go Away", NYC
- 1987 Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, "Connections Project," NYC
- 1987 Transco Gallery, "Women and Watercolor," Houston, Texas
- 1986 Jewish Museum, "Jewish Themes: Contemporary American Artists",Catalogue, Ill.,NYC
- 1985 The Clocktower, "Costume, Masks and Disguises", NYC
Articles by Ora Lerman
- 1990 "The Elusive Subject: Joan Mitchell's Abstraction of Landscape
Reflects her Study of Van Gogh, Arts Magazine 65, no.1 (Sept. 1990):
42-46.
- 1989 "Enclosure, Layering: Japanese Painter Minoru Kawabata, Arts
Magazine 64, no.2 (Oct. 1989): 67-71.
- 1988 "Contemporary Vanitas, Arts Magazine 62, no.7 (March 1988): 60-63.
- 1986 "From Close-Up to Infinity: Reentering Georgia O'Keefe's World,
Arts Magazine 60, no. 9 (May 1986): 80-83.
- 1985 "Autobiographical Journey: Can Art Transform Personal and Cultural
Loss", Arts Magazine (May 1985): 103-111.
- 1984 "Soviet Artists Make Open Form an Escape Route in a Closed
Society, Arts Magazine 58, no 6 (February 1984): 115-119.
- 1982 "Clair Falkenstein Completes the Circle, Arts Magazine 56, no.5
(January 1982): 64-67.
- 1982 "Claire Driggs, Women's Caucus for Art, Awards and Exhibition
Catalogue.
- 1981 "Claire Falkenstein, Women's Caucus for Art Awards and Exhibition
Catalogue.