The subjects in Jay Miriam’s paintings aren’t scaling mountains, battling villains, or doing anything particularly extraordinary. In fact, they’re often sedentary — but are also enormously compelling. The Greenpoint-raised artist enjoys capturing people between moments, giving life to a moment of pause and making the mundane near mystical. Or, in her own words, “I’m interested in painting and celebrating beautiful moments we experience in our day-to-day.”
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