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Friday
Jun192020

Elizabeth Murray: Blurring Distinctions

DateFriday, June 19, 2020 at 8:00AM

Elizabeth Murray - Painter’s Progress, Spring 1981 - 1981 - Oil on canvas, nineteen panels - 9’ 8" x 7' 9” - Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York (Click Photo for Large Image)Elizabeth Murray (1940-2007) was an American artist whose work “blurs the distinction between abstraction and representation, and her shaped canvases and multipart supports challenge traditional conventions of painting.”

“Painter's Progress, Spring 1981” is a painting of an artist's palette and brush, made up of 19 individual canvases of various shapes, arranged in a fashion that allows the viewer to see the discrete pieces but also the painted image. 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. 

Murray described this piece as "so psychologically satisfying because I finally realized the meaning of shattering and of putting an image inside the shattered parts that would make them whole again." 

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