Hurt earned an MFA at the San Francisco Art Institute in 2009, while focusing on themateriality through observation, and experimentation with paint. A Northern California native, she moved to Brooklyn, New York in 2010 to continue painting where she co-founded the non-profit art center, Trestle. Hurt’s move to New York led her to integrate industrial imagery into her paintings so that neon chartreuse, construction orange, and rusty-warm-grays infiltrated her nature-based abstract landscapes. After nearly ten years of working in the NYC art world, Hurt was invited to join the American Abstract Artists group that was founded by NYC artists such as Josef Albers, and Ray Kaiser (Eames) in 1936. Since joining the legacy of American Abstract Artists members such as Lee Krasner, Sol LeWitt, and Richard Tuttle, Hurt has exhibited work alongside past members in the traveling exhibition “Blurring Boundaries: The Women of AAA, 1936-present” curated by Rebecca DiGiovanna. She has exhibited internationally and has artwork in private collections and museum galleries worldwide. Starting in 2020, Hurt has made artworks for Tiffany & Co. and has work displayed in their stores internationally. Artist Statement: “I consider how negative space flows around the forms that anchor my compositions. My Balancing Act paintings are comprised of color fields created by mixing pigments and medium. The sediment in the paint creates imagery that resembles natural phenomenon resembling the earth and mineral which makes up the pigment. Complex color relationships and variation of material surface within each painting.”