Judith Murray (born 1941) is an American abstract painter based in New York City.MacAdam, Barbara A
"Judith Murray: Tempest,"
''The Brooklyn Rail'', October 3. 2018. Retrieved August 25, 2020.Osgood, Lawrence
"Neither Hats Nor Unicorns: Judith Murray at Sundaram Tagore,"
''artcritical'', June 12, 2012. Retrieved August 27, 2020. Active since the 1970s, she has produced a wide-ranging, independent body of work while strictly adhering to idiosyncratic, self-imposed constants within her practice.Perreault, John. "A Nonconformist Painter," ''The SoHo Weekly News'', June 3, 1976.Braff, Phyllis

''The New York Times'', November 10, 1985, Sect. 11LI, p. 28. Retrieved August 25, 2020.Kalina, Richard. ''Seeing Into the Abstract'', New York: Sundaram Tagore Gallery, 2003. Since 1975, she has limited herself to a primary palette of red, yellow, black and white paints—from which she mixes an infinite range of hues—and a near-square, horizontal format offset by a vertical bar painted along the right edge of the canvas; the bar serves as a visual foil for the rest of the work and acknowledges each painting’s boundary and status as an abstract object.Lowe, Ron. "Geometric Paintings Shown," ''The Fort Worth Star Telegram'', March 21, 1982, Sect. 1, p. 4.Schwabsky, Barry

''The New York Times'', October 31, 1999, Sect. 13NJ, p. 14. Retrieved August 25, 2020.Cohen, David
"Featured Item from THE LIST: Judith Murray at Sundaram Tagore,"
''artcritical'', September 29, 2018. Retrieved August 27, 2020. Critic Lilly Wei describes Murray's work as "an extended soliloquy on how sensation, sensibility, and digressions can still be conveyed through paint" and how by embracing the factual world the "abstract artist can construct a supreme and sustaining fiction."Wei, Lilly. "Toward a Supreme Fiction," in
''Judith Murray: redyellowblackwhite''
LillyWei, Judith Murray and Gillian Walker, Wayne, NJ: William Paterson University, Ben Shahn Galleries, 2000. Retrieved August 25, 2020. Murray has been recognized with a

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and awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and

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.''Artnet''
"Guggenheim Fellowships,"
April 16, 2002. Retrieved August 27, 2020.American Academy of Arts and Letters
Awards
Retrieved August 27, 2020.John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Judith Murray
Fellows. Retrieved August 25, 2020. She has exhibited internationally, including solo shows at MoMA PS1, the

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and

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,Marvel, Bill. "Critic’s Choice: Judith Murray," ''Dallas Times Herald'', March 26, 1982. and group exhibitions at the

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, Museo di Palazzo Grimani (Venice Biennale),

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(Mexico City), and

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.Whelan, Richard. "Discerning Trends at the Whitney," ''ARTnews'', April 1979, p. 84–7.Johnson, Ken
"For a Broad Landscape, An Equally Wide Survey,"
''The New York Times'', May 31, 2006. Retrieved August 25, 2020. Murray lives and works in New York City and

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, Florida with her husband, artist

Robert Yasuda Robert Yasuda (born 1940) is an American abstract art, abstract painter, most known for contemplative, atmospheric works that straddle painting, sculpture and architecture.Goodman, Jonathan. "Robert Yasuda at Elizabeth Harris", ''Art in America ...

.Heiss, Alanna. "Duo," Interview in ''DUO: Judith Murray: and Robert Yasuda'', New York/Singapore: Sundaram Tagore, 2014.

Early life and career

Murray was born in New York City, in 1941 but spent much of her childhood near the coast of southern Florida.Sundaram Tagore Gallery. ''Judith Murray: Without Borders'', New York: Sundaram Tagore, 2012. She began to paint and study painting in childhood, during a period of prolonged illness. She continued her studies at

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in Brooklyn in 1958, earning a BFA in 1962. After attending Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid, Spain in 1963, she returned to Pratt and completed an MFA (1964). Following graduation, Murray worked with the

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as an artist-in-residence in conjunction with the Grafica Americanska Exhibition held throughout Poland behind the

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. Upon returning to the U.S., she accepted teaching positions at the University of Hawaii and the

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; she would later teach and lecture at

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, Pratt Institute, and

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. In the early 1970s, Murray was one of the pioneer artists that lived and worked in the lower Manhattan area that later became known as

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. She exhibited in solo shows at the historic Betty Parsons/ Jock Truman Gallery (1976) and the Clocktower Gallery (1978) in New York and the

(1982), among others.Heiss, Alanna. "Painting as Painting, Painting as Sculpture, Painting as Architecture," i
''Judith Murray: From Vibrato to Legato''
Alanna Heiss, Edward Leffingwell and Richard Kalina, New York: Sundaram Tagore Gallery and Ahmedabad, India: Mapin Publishing, 2006.Muchnic, Suzanne. "Judith Murray", ''Los Angeles Times'', 1982. During that decade, she was also featured in the

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(1979)Robins, Corrine. "Whitney Biennial," ''Arts Magazine'', June 1979, p. 16. and group shows at PS1,

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and the

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, as well as the exhibition, "Art in Our Time," which traveled to the Milwaukee Art Museum, Contemporary Arts Center, and the

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.Kingsley, April
"Getting It Together,"
''The Village Voice'', March 19, 1979, p. 78–9. Retrieved August 25, 2020. In her early career, Murray showed with the Pam Adler Gallery in New York (1979–86) and the Jan Turner Gallery in Los Angeles.Friedman, Jon. "Judith Murray," ''Arts Magazine'', June 1979, p. 31.McKenna, Kristine

''Los Angeles Times'', March 13, 1987. Retrieved August 25, 2020. Since then, she has had solo and two-person shows at MoMA PS1 (2001), Sundaram Tagore Gallery (New York, Beverly Hills and Singapore, 2002–18), and FiveMyles Gallery (2019), among others.Cohen, David
"Judith Murray, Cordy Ryman: From Plane to Space at FiveMyles,"
''artcritical'', March 2019. Retrieved August 27, 2020.

Work and reception

Critics describe Murray as "an ardent, if non-doctrinaire, modernist" and colorist, whose "inclusive, open-ended

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" has charted a distinct course regardless of art-world fashions within, for, or against abstraction. MoMA PS1 founder Alanna Heiss suggests that Murray has avoided predictability through a slow but constant evolution from her early hard-edged geometric abstraction to her later expressive style using gesture and '' impasto'' to evoke perceptual and tactile experiences. Her work suggests influences including the early modernists, New York School and

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and

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, as well as Eastern influences;Green, Denise. "New York, New York," ''Art Monthly Australia, #196, 2007.Goodman, Jonathan. "Judith Murray at Sundaram Tagore," ''Art in America'', March 2007. her colors and compositions are also informed by places, art and culture she has encountered in travels to India and Asia, South America, and the tropics.Wei, Lilly. "Endlessly," ''Judith Murray: Tempest'', 2018. Retrieved August 25, 2020. She works primarily in oil on linen canvases, producing paintings noted most for their luminous color, sense of light, and varied, tactile surfaces and markmaking;Wei, Lilly
"Judith Murray: Continuum,"
''The Brooklyn Rail'', June 2009. Retrieved August 25, 2020.Cohen, David. "Open City," ''Judith Murray: Without Borders'', New York: Sundaram Tagore, 2012. Retrieved August 27, 2020. critic Richard Kalina writes that her practice has "displayed clarity, discipline, and structure that function in marvelous counterpoint to the intuitive, the playful, and the evocative."

Hard-edged abstraction (1974–1991)

Murray's early oil paintings were modestly sized, spare works in the hard-edged abstract tradition.''The New Yorker''. Review. ''The New Yorker'', June 7, 1976.Perreault, John. "Ten Best Exhibitions of 1976," ''The SoHo Weekly News'', January 1977.Graze, Sue. ''Judith Murray: Concentrations V'', Dallas, TX: The Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1982. They featured irregular geometric forms in reds, opaque whites and yellows floating on sensuous black fields and explored problems of balance and stability without relying on symmetry (e.g., her "Ballast" series, 1976).Kingsley, April
"Planes...in...Space,"
''The Village Voice'', April 16, 1979, p. 84–5. Retrieved August 25, 2020. These ambiguous "figures"—compared to sails, wings, kites, moons, exotic sea creatures or decadent, even dangerous, spiky plants—derived less from the natural world than from the imagination or subconscious.Zimmer, William

''The New York Times'', March 30, 1986, Sect. 11WC, p. 16. Retrieved August 25, 2020. Reviewing Murray's first major solo exhibition (Parsons-Truman, 1976), '' SoHo Weekly News'' critic

John Perreault John Lucas Perreault ( New York, New York, August 26, 1937 – September 6, 2015, New York, New York) was a poet, art curator, art critic and artist. Early life Perreault was born in Manhattan and raised in Belmar and other towns in New Jersey. ...

described her as a "non-conformist painter" whose images suggest an open-ended but withheld logic, like signs or diagrams; the ''

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'' counted her "eccentric abstractions" among the highlights of the 1979 Whitney Biennial (e.g., ''Red Angle'' and ''Broadway'', both 1978). The work Murray exhibited at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts employed tapering arcs, dynamic lines, and splinter- and scimitar-like forms in more complex, energized compositions that recall Russian constructivism (e.g., ''Red Wing'', 1980; ''Smoke'', 1979–82). The ''Dallas Times Herald'' noted the "sheer visual dazzle" of their varied matte, gloss and slightly textured surfaces and "rhythms answered by counter-rhythms" that were anchored by thin, right-edge tan bars. In the mid-1980s, Murray began experimenting with raised areas of thick pigment, layered underpainting and dappled, gently modeled figures and grounds in paintings that the ''New York Times'' noted for contrasts of mysterious light and blackness and dynamic versus subdued, gradually clarified forms (e.g., ''Mercury'' or ''Bishop'', 1983–4).Judith Murray website
Paintings 1983–1991
Retrieved August 26, 2020. ''Los Angeles Times'' critic Kristine McKenna described them as "anthropomorphic abstractions" built around " Jungian shapes freighted with inexplicable meaning" that coursed with energy and suggestions of the struggle toward consciousness.

Expressive abstraction (1992–2006)

Murray began to focus on the space around her forms in the 1990s, gradually eliminating hard-edges.Leffingwell, Edward. "Judith Murray: Vibrato to Legato," i
''Judith Murray: From Vibrato to Legato''
Alanna Heiss, Edward Leffingwell and Richard Kalina, New York: Sundaram Tagore Gallery and Ahmedabad, India: Mapin Publishing, 2006. These more dispersed compositions emphasize texture, atmosphere and a sense of pulsating light through vigorous, feathered gestures that create mosaic-like surfaces (e.g., ''Madurai'', 1994 or ''Mars'', 1997).Zimmer, William

''The New York Times'', August 28, 1994, Sect. 13NJ, p. 10. Retrieved August 25, 2020. By the end of the decade, Murray was producing paintings up to 8' x 9' that increasingly evoked the natural world, such as experiences of the Florida Keys—not literally, but as abstractly conveyed sensations (light, energy, sky, water, land, plants). Critic

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wrote that this new work revealed "

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affinities" and a sense of urgency and drama; he characterized Murray as "a temperate lyricist" combining sensibility (spirited brushwork, flickering light and tactility) and restraint (coherent architectures in each work). Many of her titles—some suggested by the poetry of

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—evoked the poetics of place or nocturnal moods: ''Night Fishing'' (1998), ''Camouflage for the Moon'' (1997), ''Shadows in Our Sun'' (1999–2000). Lilly Wei describes these works as vibrant, staccato "landscapes without landscapes, plumbing the referential, not the representational." In the 2000s, critics continued to highlight Murray's lyrical expression, ethereal brushwork, sense of light, and increasingly, her sculptural use of paint, which lent her work depth, motion and a tangible physicality.Ban, Sandra. "Judith Murray," ''ARTnews'', January 2007. Alanna Heiss and

Edward Leffingwell Edward G. Leffingwell (December 3, 1941 – August 5, 2014), was an American art critic and curator, affiliated with MoMA/P.S.1 and '' Art in America''Roberta Smith"Edward G. Leffingwell, Curator, Dies at 72"(obituary), ''The New York Times'', Aug ...

suggest that while Murray's subject is "paint itself," she simultaneously evokes real sensations such as evening light on water (the grays and calligraphic white marks of ''Primary Document'', 2006) or the reds and pinks of a fiery sunset (''Royal Flush'', 2006). The atmospheric work ''Magnetic South'' (2006), a sunny, fluctuating field of thick yellow and pink strokes, is often cited as a bravura display of the Murray's ability to achieve equilibrium and coherent structure through dense, abstract gestures and color organization. The painting's creation—much of it on a ladder—was tracked over a three-month period in the episodic Albert Maysles/Mark Ledzian documentary, ''Judith Murray: Phases and Layers''.Alpert, Abby. "Judith Murray: Phases and Layers," ''Booklist'', June 1, 2007.Maysles, Albert and Mark Ledzian
''Judith Murray: Phases and Layers''
2006. Retrieved August 25, 2020.

Later painting (2007– )

Critic Barbara MacAdam writes that Murray's later work assumes "a daring position … steadfastly sticking to abstract gestural work." These paintings feature deep, seductive colors and complex, modulated roses, grays, creams, oranges, golds and silvers, as well as a sense of discontinuous space that together bridge Eastern influences—( Rajput painting, Persian carpets and textiles,

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)—and Western impressionistic or

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techniques. Lilly Wei described Murray's "Continuum" show (2009) as continuing her shift to a more painterly mode with "explosive, complex, imbricated rhythms" that conjure "landscapes in flux, worlds in transition and the roiling energy of the cosmos." Murray's "Without Borders" show (2012) signaled "a stunning departure" and "breakthrough" to critics Lawrence Osgood and David Cohen, respectively, synthesizing her early hard-edged work and current expressive style. She continued to employ accumulated, Cézanne-like short brushstrokes, lively patterns and the right-edge bar, while introducing small, scattered geometric shapes recalling, in miniature, her 1970s figures; eccentric, crystalline and almost heraldic, these forms seemingly "invade" the now-signature all-over patterns of works such as ''First Day'' and ''A Night in Tunisia'' (both 2011). Murray's aptly named exhibition, "Tempest" (2018), featured mosaic-like, whirlwind compositions, overflowing with richly colored, energetic brushstrokes that reviews compare to swarms of bees or schools of fish crossing the picture plane. Its centerpiece was the large diptych, ''Once in the Morning'' (2014), which featured a sense of deep space and a blanket of gold marks that critics likened to the opulence of a

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interior. The show also introduced a new, late-career development: small, uncharacteristically quick-looking 11" x 14" canvasses employing a wider bar (to maintain the illusion of the square format), intersecting perspectives and interruptive gestures (e.g., ''Poof'', ''Junction'' and ''Gaggle'', 2017–8); they suggest buoyancy, movement and natural forces run amok.

Public collections and recognition

Murray's work belongs to the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art,Metropolitan Museum of Art
Untitled, 1987, Judith Murray
Collection. Retrieved May 29, 2021. Whitney Museum,Whitney Museum of American Art
Judith Murray
Collection. Retrieved August 28, 2020. The Library of Congress,Library of Congress
Judith Murray
Retrieved August 28, 2020. New York Public Library,

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,The British Museum
Judith Murray
Collection. Retrieved August 28, 2020.

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,Brooklyn Museum
Judith Murray
Collection. Retrieved August 28, 2020. Carnegie Institute, Honolulu Museum of Art, MIT List Visual Arts Center,

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,The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Judith Murray
Collection. Retrieved August 28, 2020. National Museum of Art (Poland),

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,Philadelphia Museum of Art
''Untitled'', Judith Murray
Collections. Retrieved August 28, 2020.

Smithsonian American Art Museum The Smithsonian American Art Museum (commonly known as SAAM, and formerly the National Museum of American Art) is a museum in Washington, D.C., part of the Smithsonian Institution. Together with its branch museum, the Renwick Gallery, SAAM holds o ...

,Smithsonian American Art Museum
Judith Murray
Artist. Retrieved August 28, 2020.

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,Art in Embassies, U.S. Department of State
Judith Murray
Personnel. Retrieved August 28, 2020.

Walker Art Center The Walker Art Center is a multidisciplinary contemporary art center in the Lowry Hill neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. The Walker is one of the most-visited modern and contemporary art museums in the United States and, t ...

,Walker Art Center
Judith Murray
Collection. Retrieved August 28, 2020. and Yale University Art Gallery, among other public and private collections.Sundaram Tagore Gallery. ''DUO: Judith Murray: and Robert Yasuda'', New York/Singapore: Sundaram Tagore, 2014. She has been recognized with fellowships from the

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(2002) and National Endowment for the Arts (1983) and an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award (2005). She was inducted into the National Academy of Design in 2009, and has been a member of the

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since 1985.MacAdam, Barbara A. "American Abstract Artists: OK Harris Works of Art," ''ARTnews'', October 2011, p. 107. She has also been commissioned

Lincoln Center Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (also simply known as Lincoln Center) is a complex of buildings in the Lincoln Square neighborhood on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. It has thirty indoor and outdoor facilities and is host to 5 millio ...

to create artwork for posters and prints for several Mozart Festival events.Lawson, Carol
"20 Years of List Art Posters Marked,"
''The New York Times'', April 14, 1983, Sect. C, p. 15. Retrieved August 25, 2020.

References

External links

Judith Murray
official website
''Judith Murray: Phases and Layers''
2006, directed by Albert Maysles and Mark Ledzian
Judith Murray
Guggenheim Fellowship page
Judith Murray artist page
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