Background
Fuerst, Shirley Miller was born on June 3, 1928 in Brooklyn. Daughter of Joseph Miller and Minna (Lavine) Miller.
Fuerst, Shirley Miller was born on June 3, 1928 in Brooklyn. Daughter of Joseph Miller and Minna (Lavine) Miller.
Bachelor, Hunter College, 1948; M of Creative Art, Hunter College, 1971.
One-woman shows include Village Art Center, New York City, Gallery 84, Douglas College Library. Rutgers University, Atlantic Gallery, New York City, Broadway Windows, Steinhardt Conservatory, Brooklyn, Botanical Garden, Space Between Gallery, Bangor, Maine, Educational Testing Service, Princeton, New Jersey, Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, Maine, New Britain Museum American Art, Connecticut, Flinn Gallery, Greenwich, Connecticut, St. Peter's Church, Citigroup Building, New York City, Sculpture Studio, Mount Desert, Maine, others, exhibited in group shows at Allentown Art Museum, Penn., Butler Institute American Art, Youngstown, Ohio, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York, Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, New York, Atlantic Gallery, New York City, American Automobile Association Gallery, Suffolk Museum, Long Island, International Graphic Arts Exhibition, Bilbao, Spain, University Art Gallery, Albany, Aljira, Newark, Gallery at Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, Portland Museum Art, Maine, Blum Gallery, College Atlantic, Bar Harbor, Maine, 1998, Great Harbor Maritime Museum, North-East Harbor, 2009, Wingspread Gallery, Ne Harbor, 2009, Flinn Gallery, Greenwich, 2010, others, Represented in permanent collections Allentown Art Museum, Exxon Corporation, New Jersey, University Texas, Austin, Portland Museum Art, Off The Coast, 2008, A Floating World, Kinetic Mylar and mixed-media sculptures, 2005, Freeing Itself from Gravify, Largescale Kinetic Mylar Sculptures, Fuerst Studio, Mount Desert, 2008, numerous other shows.
Married Adolph Fuerst, July 6, 1951. Children: David Jonathan, Ellen Laura.