Irma Ostroff

Born and raised in Philadelphia, currently live in NYC and Woodstock NY. My work has gone in various directions simultaneously: from representation to abstraction, apparent simplicity to intricate complexity, small scale to large, The exploration of visual ideas on the two-dimensional plane is what interests me. At times this means drawing from nature, attentive to form and light, then thinking about color relationships, pure form, systems of pattern. Though disparate in subject and approach, there is consistency, of hand, sensibilities. Style, like any other self-conscious external motivator, is antithetical to the real experience of work and process. Memory, experience, dreams, fears, desires find expression through a visual vocabulary built and practiced over many years. Exploration and discovery are too interesting to over-manage as they take me to unanticipated places and present me with challenges I would not otherwise have.

M.F.A. City College of New York, CUNY
B.F.A. Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, Pa.
Currently, Adjunct Professor, Bernard and Ane Spitzer
School of Architecture, City University of New York

EXHIBITIONS: (partial list)
64 arts National Juried Exhibition, Monmouth, IL 2018
A Sense of Place, Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art, Augusta, GA 2018
Abstract catalyst #5 Verum Ultimum Gallery Portland, OR 2017
Five Artists + Architecture, Spitzer School of Architecture CCNY 2017
Women in Art 2016, Las Lagunas Gallery, CA 2016
Women in Art 2015, Las Lagunas Gallery, CA 2015
LaGrange National XXVIII, LaGrange Museum 2016
Monmouth Museum 2015
RKT&B Architects* NYC 2012
Spitzer School of Architecture, Faculty Exhibit NYC 2009
Tyler School of Art Alumni Show, Philadelphia PA 2008
2/20 Gallery NYC 2007
Neri Gallery Invitational, Madison, NJ 2005
New Jersey Center for Visual Arts* 2002
A.I.R. Gallery, NYC 2000
Generations II: Invitational, A Survey of Women Artists 2000
at the Millenium
Pieces 3, Invitational, Gallery 128, NYC
(with Sol LeWitt, Kenneth Snelson, Ursula VonRydingsvard) 1999
Pieces 2, Invitational Exhibit, 1998
Gallery 128, NYC 1998
2/20 Gallery, Invitational, NYC 1998
A.I.R.Gallery, NYC 25th Anniversary Invitational 1998 Distinguished Women P...