Elizabeth Murray, Bop, 2002–2003.
The news of Elizabeth Murray's death this week is sad, and especially dispiriting given all the artist's recent activity. Not just the long overdue accolades she received—bestowed in the form of a fine retrospective as well as sometimes-grudging critical recognition that painting existed, and even thrived, during the 1970s, with Murray foremost among the painters who kept on keepin' on. But also the paintings she did right up until her death. For all the reasons she was able to bootstrap her way into an art world that was in no mood for her work, her recent paintings continue to thrill: Foregoing prescription and the prevailing theories for the pure possibility of form and never-ending experiment.
Posted by Kriston at August 15, 2007 1:09 PMRIP. I don't agree with "the pure possibilities of form", I see more narrative possibilities of form. Those shapes look like stuff.
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