Harriet Korman

Harriet Korman (born 1947) is an American abstract painter based in New York City, who first gained attention in the to the fore 1970s. She is known for comport yourself that embraces improvisation and experimentation within a framework of self-imposed limitations that tally simplicity of means, purity of color, and a strict neglect of allusion, illusion, naturalistic spacious and space, or supplementary translations of reality. Writer John Yau describes Korman as "a utter abstract artist, one who doesn’t rely upon a visual hook, cultural association, or anything that smacks of essentialization or the spiritual," a point of view he suggests few post-Warhol painters have taken. While Korman's do its stuff may recommend early twentieth-century abstraction, critics such as Roberta Smith locate its roots in the course of a cohort of early-1970s women artists who sought to reinvent painting using strategies from Process Art, then most associated with sculpture, installation art and performance. Since the 1990s, critics and curators have championed this early take effect as unjustifiably neglected by a male-dominated 1970s art spread around and deserving of rediscovery.

Korman has exhibited at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, Museo Rufino Tamayo and MoMA PS1, among further institutions. She has traditional a Guggenheim Fellowship and awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and National Endowment for the Arts.