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Jan Wurm is a most accomplished and prolific artist working in multiple techniques: drawing, painting, printmaking and sculpture. She holds a B.A. from U.C.L.A. and an M.A.R.C.A. from London’s Royal College of Art. She studied with the abstract painter Richard Diebenkorn and the pop artist Peter Blake.
She exhibits her work internationally and her works are held in important collections such as the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco’s Achenbach Graphic Arts Collection at the Legion of Honor, and the New York Public Library Print Collection and the Archiv Verein der Berliner Künstlerinnen (the Archive of the Organization of Berlin Women Artists). Wurm teaches art for the U.C. Berkeley Extension and the Art Studio of the Associated Students of the University of California (ASUC). Wurm lives and works in Berkeley, California.
Jan Wurm, Check, 2009, oil on canvas, 48” x 72”, $9,000
January 9 - February 7, 2010
THE SEDUCTION OF DUCHAMP
BAY AREA ARTISTS’ RESPONSE
CURATED BY:
Hanna Regev
& Steven Lopez
“The fact that chess could engage the thought and activity Duchamp had devoted to art bespeaks several issues.
The chess game engages both parties not only in a cerebral battle of wits, but also places each man in the other's mind: a shared problem, a common space inhabited and possessed through deeper and deeper imaginings and projections and evasions. Just as the nude exposes movement, the man on the train reveals emotion, and the glass cryptically illuminates narrative, so the chess game points to the strategy and obfuscates the means.
Added to this intellectual stimulation is also an element of addiction. The complete absorption of concentration, which magically disappears the corporal world at the same time invades and consumes”.
Jan Wurm
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