Natural Light in The Studio

See it in the flesh, and in photograph next week at Sur La Montagne in Berlin, and in May at Skew Gallery in Calgary.

On it's way to Milwaukee

2 paintings disassembled and crated up to go to my upcoming show "Askew" in Milwaukee at the Union Art Gallery - University of Wisconsin.

After some major problems with the American shipping company in brown shorts, I found a great guy in Berlin to work with. Email me if you need someone.

In My Culture Food Was Not Very Important @ NEXT Chicago

Skew Gallery is hanging my work at the NEXT fair in Chicago this weekend. Go get yer mind blown at booth 8B.

Go say howdy.

This Tiny Boy Just Left For NEXT Chicago

Just sent my work to Skew Gallery for the NEXT Chicago art fair, running April 29th to May 2nd.

My first Chicago fair, so I sent a brand new piece with a skinny child playing a harmonica. Fucking bluesy as hell: In My Culture Food Was Not Very Important.

Just finished it last week.

Chicago makes me think of Wax Trax records and Bobby Conn. I wish I could go.

Interview with Travis Reynolds for the Calgary Herald

Artist and expatriate Wil Murray returns to Calgary for the first time with his exhibition, I Hate Your Language You Hate Your Language.

Rife with meaning, Murray's conceptually laden, abstract sculptural paintings literally jump from the wall, providing a rich visual experience unfettered by the traditional, straight-ahead viewing angle. His works are assemblages of paint skins, photographs and three-dimensional constructs that fluctuate between being wildly excessive and subtly seductive.

Watch the video interview.

Review: I Hate Your Language Your Hate Your Language at Skew Gallery, Calgary

"Murray’s conversation with the visualization of his work reflects upon the in congruency the experience presents in person from that of which is represented when photographed, but states he values equally the photographic experience and the flesh."

From Raina Enss' review of my exhibition I Hate Your Language, You Hate Your Language, up now at Skew Gallery in Calgary.

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

Upcoming Exhibitions: 2011

February 10th - March 12, 2011: "I Hate Your Language, You Hate Your Language" Solo exhibition at Skew Gallery. Calgary, Canada.

May 2nd - 6th: Schattenkabinett Solo Exhibition at Staatsgalerie Prenzlauer Berg. Berlin, Germany.

August 29th - September 23rd: Softcore Hard Edge at East and Peggy Phelps Galleries, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California

Fall 2010: Solo Exhibition at Galerie Push. Montreal, Canada

Skew Gallery - Calgary, Canada

I am very pleased to announce that I will be represented by Skew Gallery in my hometown of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Look for my work in an exhibition there this summer presented as part of the Sled Island Music Festival.

Image: If You Wax It And Tan It The Scars Are Sure To Shine Brightly Tonight, 2010. 83.5 X 49 X 8 inches. Acrylic & Polyethylene Foam On Boar. Photo by Yannick Grandmont