Elizabeth Murray is one of my FAVORITE artists!
"I paint about the things that surround me," Murray said, "things that I pick up and handle every day. That’s what art is. Art is an epiphany in a coffee cup."
Elizabeth Murray
below is a short bio and links to read more:
Elizabeth Murray
Elizabeth Murray (September 6, 1940 – August 12, 2007) was an American painter, printmaker and draughtsman. Her works are in many major public collections, including those of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Carnegie Museum of Art.
this part of Murray's bio is from Day of the Artist
https://dayoftheartist.com/2014/04/08/day-ninety-eight-elizabeth-murray-art-is-an-epiphany-in-a-coffee-cup/
"I paint about the things that surround me," Murray said, "things that I pick up and handle every day. That’s what art is. Art is an epiphany in a coffee cup." Just such a coffee cup, with its contents spilling forth, appears in the appropriately entitled Yikes. Standing out from the wall in relief, the ordinariness of this familiar situation is dramatized by the monumental size of the seemingly broken canvases that resist fitting back together again. Murray said that she found the process of splintering the conventional picture plane "so psychologically satisfying because I finally realized the meaning of shattering and of putting an image inside the shattered parts that would make them whole again."
https://www.moma.org/collection/works/79519Elizabeth Murray was known for her use of shaped canvases.
In 1967, Murray moved to New York City. She first exhibited in 1971 in the Whitney Museum of American Art Annual Exhibition. One of her first mature works included "Children Meeting," 1978 (now in the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum), an oil on canvas painting evoking human characteristics, personalities, or pure feeling through an interaction of non-figurative shapes, colour and lines.[7] She is particularly noted for her shaped canvas paintings.[8]
Biography is from wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Murray_(artist)
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