Elizabeth Murray

Elizabeth Murray, Vaudeville

Elizabeth Murray (September 6, 1940 – August 12, 2007) was an American painter, printmaker and draughtsman. Her works are in many major public collections, including those of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (in Washington D.C.), the Pérez Art Museum Miami, New York's Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Carnegie Museum of Art, and the Wadsworth Atheneum. Murray, born in Chicago, Illinois to Irish-Catholic parents, was known for her use of shaped canvases.

Quotes

• Everything comes from drawing out my ideas.
  • "Elizabeth Murray, Force of Nature", hyperallergic (January 14, 2017)

• Things Fall Apart.
  • "Elizabeth Murray, Force of Nature", hyperallergic (January 14, 2017)

"How Graffiti Influenced Elizabeth Murray" (2017)

"How Graffiti Influenced Elizabeth Murray", hyperallergic (October 25, 2017)

• Popular culture is one part of teeming life that everybody, all of us, are involved in,
• Everything I have done and experienced gets into the work somehow or another—my childhood, my family life, my grad-school days.
• My work is very much about being in the city. It's very much about the streets and the buildings and the feeling of enclosure. And in that sense New York is very conceptual. I'm not an intellectual, not by any means. I admire those minds very much. But New York is about enclosure and the energy of enclosure, and has a kind of a tough irony. I mean, it's a city of complete contrasts and some bitterness, conflict, anger, and it's also a … place of enormous hope.