Myra has loved art and music since she was a very young girl growing up in Brooklyn. When she was in second grade and painting a picture of a tree, her teacher said to her, “Just because tree bark is often brown doesn’t mean you can’t make it purple if you want to.” That one sentence changed the way Myra thought about art and many other things for the rest of her life. It was the doorway to a magical place where anything was possible. Myra has always had a vivid imagination, which found its way into her art. She loved the book “Harold and the Purple Crayon,” where the main character could draw anything he wanted, like a boat or a rocket ship, and jump in. She loved designing elaborate covers for book reports. When she was in high school, she had an assignment to do a 30-hour project and created a variation on the Statue of Liberty with empty egg cartons. Her art is the vehicle through which she can share her deepest feelings, her wishes, her dreams, and her whimsical side. Her mother, Shirley Cohen, paid for her to take private lessons in oil painting. Her teacher told her she needed to learn how to see and that all shapes are relevant to each other. Myra took life drawing classes at the Art Students’ League of New York and took a cartoon drawing class at the School of Visual Arts. She recalls that when she first walked into that classroom after years out of school, there was a young man who began to talk with her. She had no idea that this cartoon drawing class was actually a life drawing class. So when he stepped into the middle of the room and took all of his clothing off because he was the model, she blushed and he smiled at her during the entire class. Myra moved to Long Beach in 2000 and through her love of music became a member of the town’s large artistic and musical community. She has two of her acrylic paintings hanging in the ladies’ room at JR Asian Fusion restaurant, in Long Beach, NY. She loves to use watercolors, oils, oil pastels, and acrylic, and has recently delved into the world of mixed media. During the Covid pandemic, she repurposed household items into mobiles. She used papier mâché to create small sculptures, which her fiancé said reminded him of the Easter Island moais. She used air-dry clay to create tiny whimsical creatures born in her mind. She loves to use vivid colors in her work and in the past few years has created tiny pixie people that you will find in her paintings. While Myra creates her art because she is driven to it and loves to do it, in this upside-down world, she hopes it encourages, entertains, humors, comforts and lifts the spirits of all who see it.
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