SYRACUSE, NY - The Everson Museum of Art’s Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t) responds to injustice throughout history with a compassionate look at humanity in the 20th and 21st centuries.  On view Sept. 16, 2006 through Jan. 7, 2007 at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, NY, Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t) is a testament to human suffering and a tribute to human strength.  Artist books, collages and a number of vivid paintings comprise this exhibition.  Like Beerman’s past works, those in Eloquent Pain(t) reflect powerful emotion—-investigating and revealing pain, sorrow, loss and resiliency.  However, created using a process that has evolved since her 1991 retrospective at the New Jersey State Museum at Trenton, these 30 pieces feature a style that has not been exhibited before now.

As a painter, Beerman draws her artistic inspirations from world events, religion and the human psyche.  In turn, her vivid and colorful paintings offer powerful imagery that investigates and reveals emotion in reference to the history of human atrocities, including the Holocaust.  In her own words, Beerman explains, “There are some who feel they have to bear witness, and I happen to be one of them.”

Some of the artwork in Eloquent Pain(t) was also inspired by Beerman’s love for poetry, which, like painting, can unearth and reveal raw emotions and historical insight.  Beerman especially notes the poems of Primo Levi, Rainer Maria Rilke, Rose Drachler, Christina Rosetti and Pablo Neruda.  “Miriam Beerman is a true artist-—drawing and painting her thoughts and emotions as others write them down,” says Senior Curator Marisa Pascucci.  “Like poetry, her paintings beg further thought and demand attention.”