Helen Mirra, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Helen Mirra

artist

Date of Birth: 31-Dec-1970

Place of Birth: Rochester, New York, United States

Profession: artist

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Helen Mirra is an American conceptual artist.
"[Like Henry David Thoreau, she is a] maximalist in a minimalist robe", with an idiosyncratic practice.
She is engaged with ideas common to buddhist, particularly zen, and pragmatist philosophy, and since 2008 her art practice has been integrated with walking.
She has said of walking: "It is an unskilled activity, and a modest activity, and a free activity, and an always-available activity, and an equipment-free activity, and an active activity." In an essay on Mirra's work, Yukio Lippit described her engagement thus: "Mirra’s practice champions walking as a specific form of thinking that bypasses language.
Indeed, one senses that she shares with Zen Buddhists in particular a deep skepticism towards language as an authentic mechanism of discovery." At the same time, she has often worked with language as a primary material.