Jan Wurm is an artist, educator, and curator engaged in expanding the community forum for contemporary art dialogue. Currently dividing her time between Berkeley and L.A., Wurm has lived in California and Europe and has honed an eye for social patterns and conventions. Infused with warmth, humor, and an energetic line, Wurm's paintings and mixed media works have been exhibited internationally and are in collections including the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, New York Public Library Print Collection, Archiv Verein der Berliner Künstlerinnen, and Universität für angewandte Kunst in Vienna.

Enticed by the monotype, Wurm thrills to the surprise as the image is revealed. There is an addicting rush of meeting a stranger staring back from the paper. A figure appears and demands the artist discover and understand what has been wrought. And repeatedly working over the plate gives variations in the prints which shift the posture, the expression, the relationships. It creates a series akin to animation so that a dialogue is generated, a narrative developed. Slightly shifting, the implied movement carries the viewer into an unfolding adventure.