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Michael Mazur Printmaker American (New York, 1935 - ) View objects by this artist.

Born and raised in New York City, Mazur studied art at Amherst College and Yale University before settling in Boston, where he has lived for many years. His early prints, such as the Closed Ward and Locked Ward series, reflect his commitment to social issues and draw on the time he spent as a volunteer art therapist at a mental institution.

Mazur also has been an acute reader of literature, as is indicated in several book projects, including an early woodcut project, An Image of Salomé, and his recent monotype illustrations for poet laureate Robert Pinsky's translation of Dante's Inferno.

In the 1980s, Mazur began a study of the natural world on Cape Cod, where his family has a summer home. Realized in his Wakeby images, his treatment of the natural world has been likened by some critics to Chinese and Japanese landscapes.

Mazur is arguably the leading American practitioner of monotype, a process whereby the artist draws directly on the plate to produce a unique print with the spontaneity and immediacy of painting.

Source: Stanford University Press Release
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/news/report/news/june7/mazur-67.html

Educated at Yale University, Michael Mazur has taught at RISD, Brandeis, Yale, and the Carpenter Center at Harvard. He founded the New Provincetown Print Project at The Fine Arts Work Center where he is presently Co-Chair of the Board of Trustees. His work is in collections at the M.F.A. in Boston, The Metropolitan, MOMA and the Whitney in New York, The Chicago Art Institute, Philadelphia Museum, and MOCA in Los Angeles. He is represented by Barbara Krakow in Boston and Mary Ryan in New York. A retrospective of editioned prints and monotypes was shown at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston in February, and traveled to the Stanford University Museum, the Zimmerlie Museum at Rutgers University and the Minneapolis Art Institute. Forty new etchings illustrating The Inferno of Dante will be exhibited this spring and summer at the Civic Museum, Castelvecchio, in Verona, Italy.



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