Elizabeth Murray, RIP

NYT obit

http://www.greenwicharts.org/images/ElizabethMurrayRadish.jpg

http://www.highfivetix.org/aspx/Buzz/Images/moma.murray.jpg

http://www.moma.org/images/collection/FullSizes/352_1997_a-b_CCCR.jpg

http://www.ncmoa.org/artnc/pictures/artifact/medium/42.jpg

http://www.askart.com/AskART/photos/SNY11131991/73.jpg

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y89/gordoncupcake/artblog5/IMG_2001.jpg

http://www.ket.org/painting/images/love.jpg

http://joslyn.org/File.aspx?FileID=a200559b-4658-43c4-bc66-01e71a12e01f

I can't stand her paintings save her very earliest, but RIP nonetheless.

Okay, but I don't want to catch you speaking ill of Pat Steir.

Back to the paintings;

http://www.texgal.com/Murray/images/07.jpg

I don't generally oppose Pat Steir's paintings but do find them a bit dull taken in succession.

How about posting some of the 70s stuff?

yeah, i've never understood her success, as unfashionable her work was during that 60's/70's period of anti-abstraction. at times her work has been a guilty pleasure of mine, RIP.

http://www.booklyn.org/artists/ELIZABETH_M.jpg

Praise Poem for Elizabeth Murray

Elizabeth Murray she deserves more of these degrees she needs
One for every color on her palette which she spins like a plate-
Spinner a palettespinner! Colors spill all over her canvases yeah
Sure and hey hey hey the canvases are created by the colors
splashing
Spilling they collect into the shapes follow these words like her
paintings
Follow those shapes and give Elizabeth Murray a big round of
more
Honorary degrees and high honors her paintings are music too
opera
She listens to opera a lot of opera I have to drown it out to write
you can
See Donizetti Gluck Mozart Charpentier Bellini opera all over her
Paintings to escape let's dive into an Elizabeth Murray painting
c'mon
C'mon! Dive in a cup! You dive first. Ok. I'll jump first dive head
First into swirl whirlpool I dive you paddle with one of those
spoons
She does and we'll not escape (Chorus: no we'll not escape) we'll
not escape
(Chorus: no We'll never escape) till Elizabeth Murray gets more of
these
Award-things or we drown first, in art, in an Elizabeth Murray
painting,
Whichever comes first or maybe the oral tradition will make a
comeback
Thanks to poems like this and also the poetry club I'm trying to
start on
The Bowery and looking for investors to Buy Real Estate for Art
New Model
If interested see me after poem meanwhile we're all dippin in the
cup kickin in
The cups (meanwhile meanwhile kickin in the cups) (call and
response) we give
Praise! Oh yes praise hey ho I do love this griot job composing
praise poems
Is as easy as saying Elizabeth Murray totally great artist Dr.
Elizabeth Rose
Murray we are drowning in your Art and handing
overprizes
doctorates
Fellowships awards for what you give us is Incalculable and all we
do
In return is praise praise praise which humbly means thank you to
you

—Bob Holman

http://www.ici-exhibitions.org/exhibitions/images%20Exhibitions/images/high_3.jpg
"Flamingo" 1976

OK and I found a shaped one I like.

http://www.high.org/resources/images/collection/213=w/1981_54_web.jpg
"Brush's Shadow" 1981

RIP again.

oh wow, i didn't hear about this. i was at moma checking out one of her paintings (and sorta being snottily dismissive about it) the other day. oh well. rip.