I Hate Your Language, You Hate Your Language @ Skew Gallery Feb. 10th - Mar. 12th, 2011

I Hate Your Language, You Hate Your Language

Wil Murray

February 10th - March 12, 2011
Opening reception Feb. 10th : 6pm - 8pm (Artist In Attendance)

Skew Gallery: 1615 10th Avenue S.W. Calgary, AB Canada 001 403 244 4445

"You're looking at striated surfaces, drawn surfaces, old paint skins that have been peeled off, folded over on themselves, turned into a kind of sculptural element. It's a new kind of management of painted surfaces that are certainly a kind of Punk version of the bourgeois paintings" - Richard Rhodes, editor of Canadian Art describing Wil Murray's paintings on Bravo! Arts&Minds.

Skew Gallery is pleased to announce the return of Calgary's "hometown boy" Wil Murray to present a solo exhibition of his abstract sculptural paintings. Now based in Berlin Germany, Murray's interest in the radial view of his paintings propels the artist to create a cornucopia of layers in each painting, where paint itself serves as the subject of narrative. Murray assembles his paintings using acrylic paint-skins, brushwork, foam injections, and wooden appendages in an assortment of patterns and textures and forms. The resulting paintings are simultaneously garish in their excess, yet equally seductive in their unbridled vigor and skillful delivery; they are visceral both in the creation and the viewing.

See works from the exhibition here.

Photo: Maxime Ballesteros

All I Want For Christmas Is Tear & Shear

I love Christmas. I am all shits and giggles to actually have something I can refer to as a "Great Gift Idea". This is a first.

Prints of my work, as photographed by Maxime Ballesteros are available at Art + Culture Editions: http://aceditions.com/artists/wil-murray.

They ship around the world, too.

Much better than a puppy, and won't suffocate in the box!

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New Prints at Art + Culture Editions

Art + Culture Editions has two editions of my work available by order online. A straight up print of my work is totally ridiculous, so for these I had Maxime Ballesteros photograph some paintings at my Berlin studio. I left him alone in an other room, he came back to get a hammer and some string.
His photos are incredibly frank and I am so glad he lent his eye to a different representation of my work than the one with the fake tits shadow and corrected hair colour and brown eye reduction.
The reproduction of "Hot Dog Day Chien Chaude Savvy To Rename Himself AA Aardvark" brings out it's sleaziness and dripping lustiness. Maxime's photo of "Call Me Anything Just Don't Call Me Late For Dinner or Alive And Well" is the only image I have seen that captures the quiet, airy stillness of my studio where the paintings exist pricipally as objects.
The prints are gorgeous, you can see and purchase them here. Nice and slick.

More of this type of representation to come, nice to know really good photographers.

Go see Maxime Ballesteros' work too, he's got some photos in Saccharine at The Grimmuseum in Berlin

Edition....

Coming soon! An edition with Art+Design Editions.
Maxime Ballesteros came down a few weeks ago and photographed my work(image above from the same series). The edition will be two prints of my work as photographed by Maxime.
I told him to photograph them as he wanted. He came by the studio and got to work, came into the room I was working in to ask for a hammer and some string, and disappeared again.
It feels good to see what is revealed by images outside a painting's official portrait.
More and more my work is built to goose lookers in front of the painting and watchers looking at photos...to separate and lift those two experiences.
More collaborations like this coming.