In galleries and on Instagram the 89-year-old artist is having a moment
By Sharon Pomerantz, The Forward, June 23, 2026
Diana Kurz is on a roll. Last April, the 89-year-old, Viennese-born New York artist, (and long-time Jewish Art Salon member), had a solo show of her abstract paintings, “Diana Kurz: A Journey of Discovery,” at the Lincoln Glenn Gallery in Chelsea.
Motorists on the New York State Thruway can now see “The Hudson River Downtown, Triptych,” her large landscape reproduced as a permanent installation at the Ardsley Service Plaza, the first stop outside Manhattan.
The US State Department recently chose two of Kurz’s still-life paintings for the US Embassy in Paraguay.
And a series of Instagram reels featuring Kurz explaining aspects of her practice have earned her more than 24,000 followers.
Kurz’s work will also be included in Lincoln Glenn’s “American Women Artists and the Century of Change,” opening later this summer.
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