Margie Mirell – Transforming Emotion Into Art
Artist Statement: Painting is a form of communication to me—personal and soulfully intimate. My paintings are an alternative way of communicating and connecting with the viewer. My long-term goal is to elicit an emotional response from the viewer that stirs something inside of them. It does not have to mirror my feelings, but the response is uniquely theirs. That is important to me. If that happens, I feel I’ve succeeded.
My work has spanned many years. Although, there were years where I did not paint, my desire has always been to complete my life as an artist. To that end, I attended the fine arts program at California State University at Northridge graduating magna cum laude. I was fortunate to find inspiration from the talented artists who were my teachers: Carson Gladson, Dr. Irving Block, and Hans G. Burkhardt, the Abstract Expressionist. It was Burkhardt’s constant pressure to move from realism to abstraction that continues to stay with me. The Expressionists and Impressionists who also influenced me are: Chagall, Kandinsky, Van Gogh, and—my favorite—the Colorist Helen Frankenthaler.
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