Meredeth Turshen

Artist's Statement

I am an artist, teacher, and writer whose work explores the natural world through landscape and still life. My practice reflects on the forms, rhythms, and visual experiences found in nature, which I sometimes translate into non-figurative and abstract compositions.

Working across a range of media and approaches, I am interested in the relationship between observation and abstraction, and in how the familiar elements of the natural world can be transformed through color, form, and composition. My work is informed by a longstanding engagement with both representational and abstract approaches to art. www.meredethturshen.com

Biography

Meredith Turshen is an artist, teacher, and writer who taught at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, for 35 years. She exhibits regularly throughout the New York metropolitan region, including with the National Association of Women Artists and Viridian Artists.

Turshen began her art studies at the Art Students League of New York, first attending Saturday classes for children. She went on to major in Studio Art at Oberlin College and continued her artistic training through workshops and programs at Pratt Institute, the Printmaking Council of New Jersey, the Rutgers Center for Innovative Printmaking, the Connecticut Center for Graphic Arts, and other institutions.

Her artistic practice explores nature through landscape and still life, with her work often moving between observation and abstraction. She lives and works in the New York metropolitan region.