About

"Scribbled silhouettes of branches are rendered across an azure sky and the ocean gleams. The observation of the natural world, its structure and mystery are elements that come together in my work. In the space that is no space, the formation of an interior landscape occurs. The combination of fortuitous events during printmaking and the layering of collage are the vehicles that allow me the flexibility to build, demolish, and rebuild the emotional makeup of this newly constructed environment."

Mira Lehr

Mira Lehr was born in New York but has lived most of her life in Miami. She is a graduate of Vasser College and has studied painting with Robert Motherwell, James Brooks, Robert Juarez, and James and Nieves Billmyer (long time students of Hans Hofmann.) She participated with Buckminster Fuller on the first World Game Scenerio Project at the New York Studio School.

Lehr's art reflects her love of nature, but is not visually a mere imprint of nature. The inspiration is there, but the work links also to her memories, her dreams, and her intellegence. Her work is lush, even poetic. It is about space and how all things relate to each other. The subtle color harmonies combined with veils of Japanese paper contrast with expressionistic splashes and drips. The tension balanced between the hidden and the revealed, the hard edge and the soft focus all add to the mystery and the resonance of the work.

Mira was chosen for "A Century of Women Achivements" in the woman's pavillion at the Louisiana World's Fair. In 2009, her oral history conducted by Irving Sandler was included in the archives of the Getty Museum and Research Center in Los Angeles and the Smithsonian Museum of American Art in Washington D.C. She has also been chosen by the Art Embassies program to exhibit her work in the American Embassy in Sofia, Bulgaria from 2008-2010. Odegard rugs inspired by Lehr's work were produced and travelled in an exhibition alongside the paintings to several cities.

In addition to numerous private collections, Lehr's work is represented in acclaimed public and corporate exhibitions such as Yellow Fellow in Woudrichem, theNetherlands, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, New York; the Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami; the Bass Museum, Miami Beach, Florida; the University Gallery, University of Texas, Tyler; the American Embassy, Brussles, Belgium; Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, NYC; Suntrust Banks, Florida; GenSpring FAmily Offices, and many others.

Bio

Selected Collections:
Ritz Carlton, Marina del Rey, CA
Sloan Kettering Memorial Permanent Collection
GenSpring Family Offices
Seaside Banks, Florida
The American Embassy, Brussels, Belgium
Stiching Yellow-Fellow, Woudrichem, The Neatherlands
Vassar College Library, Archives & Special Collections
Art Enterprises, Inc., Chicago, Illinois
The Art Museum, Florida International University
Baccardi Collection, Miami, Florida
Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, Florida
Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, New York
Barnes/Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri
Inter Terra Corporation, Miami, Florida
Kislark National Bank, Miami Lakes, Florida
Proskauer, Rose, Goetz & Mendelsohn, New York, New York
SunTrust Banks, Florida
Tyler Museum of Art, University of Texas

Selected Publications:
Cover Image Poets on Psalms, 2008
Miami Contemporary Artists, 2007
Artisits in Residence, Flying Horse Editions, 2007
Featured Artist, New American Paintings, 2007

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2010
Traces, Guthrie Contemporary Art, New Orleans, Louisiana
2009
New Works, Flomenhaft Gallery, New York, NY
Synergies, Rohm Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana
2008
Tanglewood, Sanford Smith Fine Art, Great Barrington, Massachusetts
GenSpring Family Offices, Grand Opening, Sarasota, Florida
2007
Dreamscapes, Flomenhaft Gallery, New York, New York
2006
Modern Masters of Tapestry, Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, Florida
Mira Lehr for Odegard, Chicago, Minneapolis, New York
Between the Meadow and the Moon, Elaine Baker Gallery, Boca Raton, Florida
2005
Mira Lehr for Odegard, Paradeisos, Celebrating Art Basel, Miami, Florida
Moon and Bellflower Variations, Flomenhaft Gallery, New York, New York
2003
World Game: Celebrating Art Basel, Odegard, Miami, Florida
Affinities with the East, Elaine Baker Gallery, Boca Raton, Florida
1997
New Work, Dorothy Blau Gallery, Bay Harbor Islands, Florida
Icarus, Continuum Gallery, Miami Beach, Florida
1996
Past and Present, Continuum Gallery, Miami Beach, Florida
1995
Orientations, Continuum Gallery, Miami Beach, Florida
1993
Sources, Continuum Gallery, Miami Beach, Florida
1991
Night Paintings, Gloria Luria Gallery, Bay Harbor Islands, Florida

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2010
Without a Trace; Artist image a world without us, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, Florida
2009
Flomenhaft Salon, Flomenhaft Gallery, New York, New York
Art on Paper, The Armory, New York, New York
Art 20, The Armory, New York, New York
2008-10
Art in Embassies, The American Embassy, Sofia, Bulgaria
2008
Preview, Rohm Gallery, New Orleans, LA
In the Eye of the Beholder, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL
2007
New American Paintings Juried Exhibitions in Print, Juried by Charlotta Kotik, Brooklyn Museum
Silent Art Auction to benefit the RugMark Foundation, Odegard, Miami, Florida
2006
Art Loves Design, Art Basel, Holly Hunt, Miami, Florida
Our Gang, Flomenhaft Gallery, New York, New York
The Continuum Gallery Continues, Futernick Art Gallery, Miami, Florida
Art Palm Beach 3, Palm Beach, Florida
2004
Holiday Salon, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA
FLOW: The Art Show, Oct. 7, 2004-January 6, 2005, entry titled “Man of War,” SunTrust Plaza Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
It’s for the Birds, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, Florida
Legal Art: Books and Sculptures on the Theme of Law, silent auction, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, Florida
2003
Turning Pages:  Celebrating South Florida Artist-Made Books, Miami-Dade Community College, Miami, Florida
Travels to:
•Bienes Center for the Literary Arts, Broward County Main Library, Ft. Lauderdale, Florid,
•Arthur and Mata Jaffe Collection of Books as AestheticObjects, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida
2002
Recent Works of the Continuum Artists, Frances Wolfson Gallery, Miami Dade Community College, Miami, Florida
Second Annual Juried Living Room Show:  Celebrating Art Basel, The Living Room, Miami, Florida
1996
Birds, Center Gallery, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York
1995
Small Works, Bianca Lanza Gallery, Miami Beach, Florida
1994
Paintings After Nature, 6 Artists Miami-New York, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Florida
1993
103rd Annual Exhibition of the National Association of Women Artists, Jacob Javits Center, New York, New York
Women’s Caucus for Art Invitational, Broward Community College, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
1991
53rd Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Paintings, The Society for the Four Arts, Palm Beach, Florida
1990
Florida Invitational, Gloria Luria Gallery, Bay Harbor Islands, Florida
52nd Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Paintings, The Society for the Four Arts, Palm Beach, Florida
Florida Artists, Gloria Luria Gallery, Bay Harbor Islands, Florida
Hortt Exhibition, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Nada, The Cuban Museum, Miami, Florida
1989
Ceramics as Surface, Tavelli Gallery, Aspen, Colorado
The Way of the Woman Artist, Art and Culture Center, Hollywood, Florida
1988
99th Annual Exhibition of the National Association of Women Artists, Jacob Javit Center, New York, New York
Thomas Center Biennial, Thomas Center Gallery, Gainesville, Florida
The Capitol Gallery Exhibition, Capitol Gallery, Tallahassee, Florida
1987
49th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Paintings, The Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, Florida
98th Annual Exhibition of the National Association of Women Artists, Jacob Javits Center, New York, New York
Biennial Exhibition, Metropolitan Museum, Coral Gables, Florida
1986
Works on Paper National Exhibition, University Gallery, University of Texas, Tyler, Texas
Hortt Exhibition, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida Women’s History, Gallery at 24, Bay Harbor Islands, FL
Thomas Center Biennial, Thomas Center Gallery, Gainesville, Florida
1984
A Century of Women’s Achievements, Women’s Pavilion, Louisiana World’s Fair, New Orleans, Louisiana
Women’s Caucus for Art Travels, The Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 
46th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Paintings, The Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, Florida