Milt Masur

Artist Statement Milt Masur

I am a retired physician enlarging my life with a career in art. I am no longer young but I am tapping what Betty Friedan called "The Fountain of Age." I believe that older people have an enormous potential for productive living as they engage in what the psychologist Erik Erikson described as the central issue of life, generativity, the passing on of the torch, pitted against stagnation.

I think that creativity is a physiological part of human nature; it is instinctual as Denis Dutton so well describes. Creativity constantly re-shapes our perception of our outer environment, interacting with our inner selves. Of the many forms of creation, visual art has the advantage of uniting these interactions by capturing a meaningful moment in time, as I try to do with my paintings.

After years of sculpting and painting, my art evolved into combining both these two and sometimes adding collage elements: I paint figurative bas reliefs with impressionistic techniques and an occasional bow to abstraction. The effect is to delineate and empower the subject; the third dimension adds a palpable sense of identity and the addition of color, adds nuance and mood and sometimes a sense of excitement or wonder. My ...

My artistic education has come from viewing art, reading books on

sculpture and painting and most of all, by the process of sculpting and

painting.I have studied with artists in the field.

2010-2011 online Long Island Biennial Image gallery (www.heckscher.org)
August 2010 Group show The Art Guild at Elderfields at Graphic Eye gallery, Port Washington, NY
June-July 2010 Group show “Flow” Online gallery www.caladan.com
June 2010 Group show Art League of Long Island Jeannie Tengelson Gallery, Dix Hills, NY
March-May 2010 Group show Huntington Arts Council, Huntington, NY
March -April 2010 Group show Agora Gallery, Chelsea, NY
February -March 2010 Group show Studio Montclair exhibition at Ben Shahn Galleries of William Patterson University, NJ
January, 2010 One man show Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Huntington, NY
2009- Painting used as a theme in multiple publications of the Hofstra University Center on Suburban Diversity, Hempstead, NY
Fall, 2009- The American Juried Art Salon "Master Plus" online gallery
Spring, 2009- The American Juried Art Salon "Master Plus" online gallery
2009-Group show The Art Guild At Elderfields, Manhasset, NY
2009- Honorable Mention, The Firehouse Plaza Art Gallery, Nassau Community College,Garden City, NY
2008- Group show The Art Guild at Elderfields, Manhasset, NY
Fall, 2008- The American Juried Art Salon "Master" online gallery
2008- Suffolk Center on the...