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http://blog.art21.org/2013/03/22/exclusive-elizabeth-murray-bop/
A new video documents painter Elizabeth Murray working in the studio.
In the film, Murray talks about her working process: "What I'm looking for," she notes, "is resolution. I have it one day and I don't have it the next day. But that's what's so great about being an artist - that you can get that kind of satisfaction. What's been so hard about these paintings is that I don't know how I'm going to get them resolved… Usually what happens is when I start to really hate it, it starts to go someplace. It’s almost as though you have to get down into that place where you absolutely hate it and want to rip it off the wall, rip it to pieces, and throw it out, to start getting into it."
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http://ayearofpositivethinking.com/2013/02/10/on-being-a-lady/
Mira Schor blogs about the exhibition To Be a Lady: Forty-five Women in the Arts, curated by Jason Andrew, at at 1285 Avenue of the Americas Gallery, New York, on view through March 22, 2013.
Schor writes: "I figure that since the show is divided into two parts, installed along two separate sections of the space, with one side featuring the works of women artists who are deceased, and the other side featuring those of us still among the living, I feel that I can safely recommend the dead without incurring controversy among the other living artists in the show or referring to my own work in it or the ramifications of the word 'lady, ' which I know has stirred some controversy. Curator Jason Andrew of Norte Maar has assembled some terrific work in this show, a diverse group of works by notable artists and artists that some may be less familiar with, and in each case has included a very good example of the artist’s work, and in some cases quite a surprising one. Again, I am just talking about the dead. The works are grouped in open bays or booths, creating in effect small mini-exhibitions with some interesting synergies."
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http://www.supremefiction.com/theidea/2012/11/gallery-chronicle-november-2012.html
James Panero reviews the exhibition To Be a Lady: Forty-five Women in the Arts, curated by Jason Andrew, at at 1285 Avenue of the Americas Gallery, New York, on view through January 18, 2013.
Panero writes: "It’s too bad that the language of music cannot apply to visual art. We all know there’s a difference between a tenor and a soprano, yet we value them equally. In fact, opera is rather dull without both. The same holds true for the voices of painters or sculptors. With its concentration of abstract artists, 'To be a Lady' suggests, in particular, why women’s voices have been essential to the evolution of modernism. Even without pivotal figures on display like Helen Frankenthaler, the lady who made the men look like boys, 'To be a Lady' suggests how women have advanced an abstract language that is thankfully free of distracting male quavers. Without macho bluster, the works here can settle into contemplative, often symmetrical compositions."
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http://hyperallergic.com/58498/city-of-women/
Thomas Micchelli writes about the exhibition To be a Lady: Forty-Five Women in the Arts curated by Jason Andrew, organized by Norte Maar, on view at 1285 Avenue of the Americas Art Gallery, New York through January 18, 2013.
To be a Lady, Micchelli notes, is a show of "startling scale, ambition and quality: a museum-caliber exhibition unenclosed by museum walls." He continues: "One of the ironies of To Be a Lady (implicit in its title, which Andrew asserts is meant as a provocation) is that the pieces derived from traditional notions of domesticity — 'women’s work' in the not-gender-neutral term — are often the most aggressive... Aggressiveness is on full display in conventional media as well, with tough and jagged paintings by Pat Passlof, Elizabeth Condon, Grace Hartigan, Mira Schor, Brooke Moyse and, with a marked acidity, Elizabeth Murray."
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http://altoonsultan.blogspot.com/2011/04/elizbeth-murrays-narrative-geometries.html
Altoon Sultan blogs about Elizabeth Murray's paintings from the mid to late 1970's, works which document Murray's path from "minimalism" to her signature style. Sultan writes that "Murray takes forms that seem so straightforwardly geometric and infuses them with stories and off beat humor."
Elizabeth Murray: Painting in the '70s is on view at Pace Gallery through April 30, 2011.
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http://leftbankartblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/25th-street-painting.html
Charles Kessler writes: "If you love painting, 25th Street in Chelsea is the place to go. In one block between 10th and 11th there are four shows of sensual, masterful paintings. No Post Modern irony here — these are real painters' paintings." Enough said. Read on and then, if you're in New York, go see these shows...
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http://www.twocoatsofpaint.com/2011/04/james-kalm-visits-elizatbeth-murray-at.html
Sharon Butler posts about the exhibition Elizabeth Murray: Painting in the '70s at Pace Gallery through April 30, 2011 including an image of Murray's last painting as well as James Kalm's video of the opening reception.
