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1 ott 2003 · Elizabeth Murray in "Humor". Art in the Twenty-First Century. Season 2. October 1, 2003. In her studio, Elizabeth Murray is painting a shaped, colorful canvas with inflated, bulbous forms. “I want there to be conflict and I want there to be tension. And yet somehow I want to make these very conflicting things live together, and not ...
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A pioneer in painting, Elizabeth Murray’s distinctively...
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Elizabeth Murray. Extended Play. Humor. Art in the...
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Elizabeth Murray was always drawn to the color, graphic quality, and humor of comics. At the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and at Mills College in Oakland, California, she studied cubism, surrealism, and pop art, as well as the work of Paul Cézanne, Philip Guston, Jasper Johns, and Robert Rauschenberg.
11 nov 2017 · Elizabeth Murray, Not Goodbye, 1985 oil on canvas, 69″ x 80″ x 12 / Photography by Tom Barratt, courtesy Pace Gallery, 2017 The Murray-Holman Family Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Joy accented with knowingly boffo humor is a salient feature of just about any Murray painting.
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Elizabeth Murray's paintings are fun, cartoonish, and also deadly serious in their commitment to the medium and its boundless possibilities. Murray is famous for expanding painting's dimensions by working across multiple canvasses, and fragmenting the picture plane by breaking up not only the image, but the painted object itself. Murray's work play...
'Pastiche' is a term used to refer to a celebratory imitation of an artwork or style. Parody is a similar term, but means an imitation produced to mock. Murray's paintings often both pastiche and p...Unlike many of her cotemporaries, Elizabeth Murray was determined not only to paint (after one of painting's many purported deaths), but to make funpaintings. Influenced by cartoons, Murray's work...Childhood
Elizabeth Murray was born in 1940 in Chicago, Illinois and grew up in Bloomington, Illinois. Her parents were Irish immigrants and her mother took care of the family, while her father worked as a lawyer. Despite her father's job and a few good early years, the family often struggled financially and experienced some bouts of brief homelessness. Murray admired her mother's artistic abilities; particularly her painted miniatures, but saw her as "a typical woman of the thirties. She didn't have t...
Early Training and Work
At the Institute Murray studied lithography and began to familiarize herself with the Institute's holdings. She received a traditional training in painting but what was truly impactful on her was the fact that "to get to the art school in these days, you had to walk through the museum... I gradually began to absorb the art - the masterpieces - around me." She marveled at the Picassos and the Cezannes, and was particularly interested in the work of the Surrealists and Willem de Kooning. When s...
Mature Period
In New York Murray painted bright, abstract works that gradually grew quite large. She visited art shops frequently, deriving inspiration from the variety of paint colors. The art world first took notice of Murray in the Whitney's 1972 painting show. Martha Tucker, then a curator at the Whitney, reviewed Murray's slides that the artist had sent her. Dakota Redwas exhibited, though it did not sell; Murray ended up trading it for dental work later on. Her first major sales came later in that ye...
- American
- September 6, 1940
- Chicago, IL
- August 12, 2007
15 ott 2021 · That’s why the current show at UB Anderson Gallery is called Back in Town. In her large, complex assemblages, Murray often transforms quotidian subjects into flights of cartoonlike, surreal fantasy, revealing a fertile imagination.
