Summer Wind (Primary Title)
Elizabeth Murray, American, 1940 - 2007 (Artist)
“I think my paintings are a kind of dream, and about dreaming.” —Elizabeth Murray
Murray’s lively painting style, poised on the line between figuration and abstraction, played an important part in reinvigorating painting in the late 1970s and 1980s. Her complex paintings—often multipaneled and irregularly shaped—monumentalize domestic objects and incidents, from teacups and tables to crying babies and family chaos. The stretched and distorted figure in Summer Wind (the dark form at the bottom whose ribbon arms and akimbo legs spread across the image) reshapes our concept of space and perspective and evokes associations ranging from a reclining figure engaged in breezy summer dreams to classical images of fallen heroes, their heads lowered toward the ground.
Elizabeth Murray: Recent Paintings, Pace Wildenstein, New York, NY, February 12 – March 13, 1999
Winter Group Show, Pace Wildenstein, New York, NY, December 19, 1997 – January 24, 1998
[1] Accessioned May 20, 1999. Accession record located in VMFA Curatorial file.
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