Kim Neudorf has posted a new article about my work at
shotgun-review.ca.
Written after my show in the spring at Bilton Contemporary and kept under wraps until now.
"Murray's paintings have a presence that is process and time-based and relates to philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty's idea that "there is at the core of time a gaze," as the artist has written about his work as a narrative of layered creation that can be seen nonlinearly. The paintings also relate to a self-generative theme of identity as constant re-habitation either literally or metaphorically, similarly used by recent painters Kristine Moran and Krisjanis Katkins-Gorsline. This is particularly described by Moran in a statement of her work wherein a survival instinct of transformation allows "protagonists" in the paintings an "anthropomorphic value, which transforms them into both shelters and beings at once." "Read the full article
here
A very nice photo essay of the exhibition "Painting: Thick and Thin" I curated for the Sled Island Festival at the Glenbow Museum has been posted at shotgun-review.ca
