Twice As Much Faggot, Twice as Much Drugs

Settling into Berlin nicely after a very good, very hazy art fair in Toronto.
My second arrival here has been even more spectacular than the last. It rains here, but I've not felt a drop.
I stopped checking the weather or the date.
The painting pictured is very big. You can click on the photo and see it bigger. It was exhibited at Art Toronto and in my show at Galerie PUSH. I can never remember it's proper name: Them Faggot Drug Them New Faggot Standard Breasts Shape Drug(144" X 89" X 14" Acrylic & Polyethylene Foam On Board, 2009).
Photo by Yannick Grandmont

One of The Best Nights Of My Life

From the night of the vernissage for "We Pet Your Cat To Death?" at Galerie PUSH. A group shot with some of my favourite folks in the world.
L to R: Marie Brassard, Dana Gingras, Justin Evans, Wil Murray, Olivier Borxeix

Photo by Javiera Ovalle

"Microcosm" at Patrick Mikhail Gallery, Ottawa

Microcosm:

As we enter a new age of reason where science and technology gain greater importance there appears to be a revival of inquiry into traditional spirituality. We have begun to question our place in the universe and how it relates to the belief systems we have put so much faith into. Faced with this dichotomy, how do we deal with this issue that human beings are a perfect reflection of their creator? Do we still exist as a perfect microcosm of the universe or has this changed?

September 23rd-October 20th

Patrick Mikhail Gallery

Sam & Ralph, a lingering question about employment

In "Don't Give Up The Sheep", unlike all of the other Sam& Ralph episodes in which he is employed by the same company as Ralph(they punch into the same clock), Sam seems to be independently contracted by a third party, a predator temping agency or is self-employed as a coyote.
It is safe to assume then that between 1942 and 1943, whatever company Ralph worked for bought out Sam, or his employer or hired him on as full time labour.

We Pet Your Cat To Death? at Galerie Push September 10-October 11

we pet your cat to death?
10 septembre 11 octobre 2009

VERNISSAGE
JEUDI 10 septembre 2009 19H - 22H

Wil Murray’s explosive and seductive work presents paint as subject in We Pet Your Cat to Death?. Murray shoots paint up onto a pedestal of foamy stability while hanging it off to experience three dimensional spaces away from the surface that somehow holds it all together. He constructs locations for paint to occupy, making it stand up and stand out, carefully moulding, pouring, lifting, folding and intertwining it. Revelling in the act of assembling a painting, Wil Murray humanizes his subject and makes it bleed and ooze and cry and scream.

Wil Murray was born in Calgary in 1978; he studied painting at the Alberta Collage of Art and Design and has lived in Montreal since 2004. In September 2008, Murray received an honourable mention in the 10th annual RBC Canadian Painting Competition (the largest of its kind in Canada) for his painting, Sexe Maniac Maniac Maniac Maniac Maniac. Murray’s work was chosen for publication in Carte Blanche, Vol. 2: Painting, released in 2008, and his work will be presented at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in November 2009, for ESSE Magazine’s 25 year anniversary auction. Wil Murray is represented by the Diane Farris Gallery in Vancouver and Patrick Mikhail Gallery in Ottawa. Wil Murray’s We Pet Your Cat to Death? is proudly presented at Galerie PUSH from September 10 until October 11, 2009 courtesy of Patrick Mikhail Gallery.
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Wil Murray Baby Ghost from the 1900s Says Beat it With Your Chain, 2009, acrylique et mousse polypropylene sur panneau
73’’ x 60’’x8''
© Wil Murray, 2009

New Painting: If They Bottled Sex With The Curator...

If They Bottled Sex With The Curator I Would Buy It But Spill It On The Way Home, 2009
Acrylic & Foam On Board, 49" X 59" X 7"

To be sold at ESSE magazine's 25th anniversary auction November 11th at Musee De Beaux Arts in Montreal.

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