Elizabeth Murray
by Robert Storr
from The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Elizabeth Murray has radically altered the structure of modernist painting. Her shaped and constructed canvases, often topologically modeled in three dimensions or fitted together out of multiple jigsaw-like parts, treat figure and ground in unprecedented ways, giving the elastic shapes of classic Surrealism a space in their own image. The alternatively comfortable and cataclysmic world that her images depict would crack irrevocably if it followed Euclidean logic; instead; it constantly metamorphoses under stress. With a chaptered essay by Robert Storr, plate section, and in-depth interview, the book will explore Murray's relation to artists such as Joan MirA, Stuart Davis, Claes Oldenburg, and Frank Stella, as well as to the mainstream and opened up options for rising generations. This book accompanies the most detailed examination of Murray's art yet mounted, showing its development from Pop-oriented reliefs in the 1960s to the extraordinary volumetric of her recent work.
Elizabeth Murray: Pop (Up) Art
by Robert Storr
from The Museum of Modern Art, New York
To accompany the full-scale exhibtion catalogue for Elizabeth Murray's retrospective at The Museum of Modern Art in October 2005, the Museum is also producing a matching artist's book. Since Murray's works often operate in three dimensions, this book will contain two pop-ups, one derived from an existing painting, the other from a drawing created especially for the book. Both pop-ups are to be designed by the accomplished paper engineer Bruce Foster in collaboration with the artist. The book will also show a selection of the preperatory sketches and other drawings that Murray makes to ceate these works. Robert Storr, organizer of the Murray retrospective, will contribute an introduction.
Five Painters in New York: Brad Davis, Bill Jensen, Elizabeth Murray, Gary Stephan, John Torreano
Monet's Gardens at Giverny: Photographs by Elizabeth Murray: A Book of Postcards
Shapes of things to come.(Elizabeth Murray, painting exhibition): An article from: Artforum International
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Title: Shapes of things to come.(Elizabeth Murray, painting exhibition)
Author: Carroll Dunham
Publication: Artforum International (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 44 Issue: 3 Page: 208(6)
Distributed by Thomson Gale
Elizabeth Murray: Drawings, 1980-1986
Elizabeth Murray: Recent Paintings, May 1 - June 20, 1997
Elizabeth Murray Art Exhibition Catalog 2003 - 2006 (Paintings 2003 - 2006 by Elizabeth Murray)
by PaceWildenstein
from PaceWildenstein
Essay by Dave Hickey: "Elizabeth Murray: On Zabriskie Point" 23 color illustrations 40 pages 9 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches Elizabeth Murray (b. 1940, Chicago) received a B.F.A. from the Art Institute of Chicago (1962) and an M.F.A. from Mills College in Oakland, CA (1964). In addition to her current teaching position at Bard College (Annandale-on-Hudson, NY), Murray has held visiting faculty appointments at a number of American colleges and universities including The Art Institute of Chicago, California Institute of the Arts, Princeton University, Yale University, the School of Visual Arts, New York, and the New York Studio School. She has been awarded degrees from her alma mater, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Honorary Doctorate, 1992), Rhode Island School of Design (Honorary Degree, 1993)
Elizabeth Murray: Paintings, 1999-2003: March 7-April 19, 2003
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