Ring Section, Luminescing, 2020
Acrylic on canvas/panel
30h x 32w in
I'm interested in the aesthetics of physical laws acting upon the natural world, and in acknowledging some of the underlying frameworks that define our reality. Fluid dynamics, climatological systems, botanical growth, and even human constructs all guide my thinking as their visual records draw attention to our habitat.
In my recent paintings, peony blossoms were initially meant to be a tool for bridging the garden with disparate cosmological phenomena. I wanted to use such familiar and accessible forms to reflect upon things vastly beyond human proportion. As this work has developed, however, I'm more wary of such references. I think I simply want to fabricate an experience that can transport us to a different place of awareness, one that expresses both space and temporality, and that endures ongoing examination. An experience that we want to live among and return to—a refuge or a guide. Through this effort, I hope to better acknowledge the relative brevity of our time here, and our capacity for wonder.
EDUCATION
1997 M.F.A., University of New Mexico
1993 B.A., Honors in Art, Wake Forest University
1992 Camberwell College of Arts and Crafts, London
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 A Mediated Garden, Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2019 Blooms, Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2016 The Universe In All We Touch, WhiteConcepts Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
2014 All That Came Before Is Before Us Now, Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL
2013 Unseen Nature, (with Joan Winter) Susan Street Fine Art, Solana Beach, CA
2012 Nature (a preview), WhiteConcepts Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
2011 The Grammar of the Douro, Árvore Cooperativa, Oporto, Portugal
Notes and Observations on Nature, Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL
Fluvial; Water Drawings by Greg Murr, Otterbein University, Columbus, OH
2009 The Usual Politics, Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, NY
Mississippi Paintings, Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL
Awash; cambi fantastici della laguna veneziana, Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice, Italy
2007 Drawing the Water's Edge, Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL
Waterline, James Patrick Gallery, Wiscasset, ME
2006 Land and Sea, Galleria il Sotoportego, Scuola di Grafica, Venice, Italy
2005 Hudson River Overview, Morgan Lehman Gallery, Lakeville, CT
2004 Tropism; New Works on Paper, Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice, Italy
2003 Paintings and Drawings, Perimeter Gallery, New York, NY
2001 Recent Paintings, Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2000 Recent Paintings, Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1999 Tease, Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Indulgence, Wake Forest University Art Gallery, Winston-Salem, NC
Drawings and Prints, The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA
1998 Sense: Recent Paintings from Venice, Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
New Works, Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice, Italy
1997 Metamorphoses, John Sommers Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
Drawings about Growth, Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque, NM
1996 Painting Space, ASA Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 Dallas Art Fair, Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, NM (also 2019, 2018)
Palm Springs Art Fair, Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2018 Digging Deep, Flatbed Press, Austin, TX
2017 Positions Art Fair,WhiteConcepts Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
Tamarind Salon, Tamarind Institute of Lithography, Albuquerque, NM
2016 Finissage, Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL
2015 Print Love; Celebrating The Print Center at 100, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Libri d'Artista della Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Associazione Culturale la Roggia, Pordenone, Italy
2014 Red, Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Flatbed Selections, Flatbed Press, Austin, TX
Cartographia, (virtual, curated by James Scarborough), Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
Copyleft, Copyright Berlin Art Projects, Berlin, Germany
The Space Between, Constellation Studios, Lincoln, NE
Spectral, (two-person exhibition), WhiteConcepts, Berlin, Germany
2013 Line Up; Landschaft im Dialog, Kit Schulte Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
Faculty [III] 13, Hanes Art Gallery, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC
2012 Not the Usual Politics, Rose Contemporary, Portland, ME
2011 Ist Es Am Rhein So Schön, 68elf Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Im Zeichen der Abstraktion, Jürgen Bahr, Cologne, Germany
The End of the Dream (Comes Too Soon), MicaMoca, Berlin, Germany
Matter of Representation, The Works, Newark, OH
2010 20 years of printmaking at Flatbed Press, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX
(travels to University of Arkansas, Little Rock; Baylor University, Waco)
Bestiary, The Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY
Cities in Flux, WhiteConcepts, Berlin, Germany
Gesture (inclusive), Hopkins Hall Gallery, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Abstraction, Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL
2009 Space Matrix I; Invention of Spaces, WhiteConcepts, Berlin, Germany
Internal Compasses, Spaces Gallery, Cleveland, OH
Americana, The Front, New Orleans, LA
Black – White, Susan Street Fine Art, Solana Beach, CA
2008 Visions: Contemporary Drawings from the Dyke Collection, Arkansas Art Center,
Little Rock, AR (travels to Naples Museum of Art, Naples, FL) (catalogue)
Change the Position; Jan Bauer & Greg Murr, artMbassy Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Preview: Berlin Art Fair, artMbassy Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Pressing Matters, Curfman Gallery, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
Pulp Friction; Deloney Newkirk Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2007 Sanbao International Printmaking Exhibition, Sanbao Art Institute at Jingdezhen, China
(travels to Shanghai University College of Fine Art; China Academy of Fine Art, Hanzhou)
2006 Hot Picks/06, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
Fresh Ink; Flatbed Editions, Nancy Wilson Scanlan Gallery, Austin, TX
Greg Murr, Linda Plotkin, Paul Rinaldi, Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL
Premio Leonardo Sciascia, Museo dell'Agro Veientano, Formello (Rome), Italy
(travels to Florence, Venice, Milan through 2007)
2005 Prints into Drawings, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Fresh Ink: Prints from Flatbed Press, Salt Lake Arts Center, Salt lake City, UT
Unseen Forces; Greg Murr and Lana Bernberg, Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL
Views from Venice; Collection of the Scuola di Grafica, Center for Book Arts, NY, NY
Inaugural Exhibition, JET Artworks, Washington, D.C.
2004 Printed Matter, Morgan Lehman Gallery, Lakeville, CT
21 Artistas / 30 Graficas: Texas, Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico
Chaos/Control, Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL
Franklin Evans, Greg Murr, Ruby Palmer, Morgan Lehman Gallery, Lakeville, CT
Recent Paintings of Gallery Artists, Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL
Flatbed Press: Texas Grit, William Campbell Contemporary Art, Fort Worth, TX
2003 Hot Plates; Contemporary Prints from Flatbed Press, 416West Gallery, Denison, TX
The Affordable Art Fair, Perimeter Gallery, Pier 92, New York, NY
Sensory Experience, Sheldon Art Museum, Lincoln, NE; DeWaters Art Center, Flint, MI
ArtChicago, Perimeter Gallery, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
New Prints, The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA
Intimate Abstraction, AVC Contemporary Art, New York, NY
2002 Monochrome: Arisa Boit and Greg Murr, Morgan Lehman Gallery, Lakeville, CT
Smaller Than a Breadbox, Morgan Lehman Gallery, Lakeville, CT
2001 Summer Drawings, Perimeter Gallery, New York, NY
Contemporary Drawings, Visceglia Gallery, Caldwell College, Caldwell, NJ
Works on Paper; Collection of J. Henry; Rauch Gallery, Gaston College, Charlotte, NC
Works on Paper; Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2000 Flatbed at Eleven, McKinney Avenue Contemporary Art Center, Dallas, TX
Contemporary New Mexico; Angele Mason, Munson Hunt, Greg Murr, Flatbed Press, Austin, TX
Fair and Square, Governor's Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1999 Introductions, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, TN
The Presence of Absence, Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Printmaking Invitational Exhibition, Ashland University, Ashland, OH
1998 The City Series: Taos, Albuquerque, Santa Fe; Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, IA (catalogue)
5th Biennial of Graphic Art, Beograd, Belgrade, Serbia
Second International Triennial Print Exhibition, Sofia, Bulgaria
Libro Quore Lirico; (Collected Artist's Books), Fonticus Gallery, Grisignana, Croatia
Students and Faculty of the Scuola di Grafica, Church of San Stae, Venice, Italy
1997 Small Paintings, Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Small Works, Lucy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
RESIDENCIES & GRANTS
2013 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award
2007 Visiting Artist, Flatbed Press, Austin TX (also 2000)
2004 Visiting Artist, Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, NM
2003 Residency, Robert M. MacNamara Foundation, Westport Island, ME
Residency, Morris Graves Foundation, Loleta, CA
2001 Residency, MacDowell Colony, (Josephine Mercy Heathcote Fellow,) Peterborough, NH
1997 Fellowship, Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, (teaching appointment,) Venice Italy
COLLECTIONS
Whitney Museum of American Art
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Davis Museum, Wellesley College
Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe
Árvore Cooperativa
Four Seasons Hotel George V, Paris
University of New Mexico Art Museum
U.S. Embassy, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Sheldon Museum of Art
The Progressive Art Collection
Scuola Internazionale di Grafica
Wake Forest University
GUEST LECTURES
University of Iowa, Iowa City
Kansas City Art Institute
University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Ohio State University
Otterbein University
Wake Forest University
University of Wisconsin, Madison
REVIEWS
Abatemarco, Michael. Nature Unfolding: The Paintings of Greg Murr, Santa Fe New Mexican, Jan 31, 2020
Rae, Haniya. Love, Luck, or Lust: A Group Show Tackles Red's Shades of Meaning, Artsy, January 2015
Caldwell, Ellen. Interview with Greg Murr, New American Paintings blog, NAP Issue 101. October 1, 2012
Leslie Newell Peacock. 20 Years of Printmaking at Flatbed Press, The Arkansas Times, September 17, 2011
Laraia, Catherine. Dogs, pearls, high-heels and ornate mirrors, The Examiner, Chicago, July 25, 2011
Faber, Mendelowitz. A Guide to Drawing, Eighth Ed., 2011, pgs. 107-109, 120-121, 295-296
Yates, Christopher. Layered works test material pairings, The Columbus Dispatch, January 16, 2011
Taylor, Jonathan. Greg Murr, Mississippi Paintings, Chicago Art Review, July 23, 2009
Veleanu, Ioana. Artist Profile: Greg Murr, ExBerliner, Issue no. 55, November 2007
Artner, Alan. Murr finds inspiration in the everyday, The Chicago Tribune, July 27, 2007
Poroznuk, Amber. Cartographies: Mapping the Metaphorical, whitehotmagazine, Berlin, July 2007
Mendelowitz, Faber, Wakeham. A Guide to Drawing, Seventh Ed., 2006
Consentino, Nicoletta. Le forme astratte di Greg Murr, La Nuova di Venezia, November 27, 2004
Mendelowitz, Wakeham, Faber. A Guide to Drawing, Sixth Ed., 2003, pgs. 333-4, 357
Addison, Laura. Greg Murr, Turner Carroll Gallery, THE Magazine October 2001
Indyke, Dottie. Greg Murr; Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, ARTnews October 2000
Adlmann, Jan. Greg Murr; Turner Carroll Gallery, THE Magazine October 2000
Weideman, Paul. Murr's paintings turn new leaves, The New Mexican, Santa Fe August 4-10, 2000
Rosenholtz, Ellen. Tell-Tale Imagery, Philadelphia Weekly, Philadelphia, PA December 8, 1999
Sozanski, Ed. Sealed, spilled, Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia, PA December 3, 1999
Martino, Enzo di. Mostre d’ Arte; Murr, Scuola di Grafica, Il Gazzettino, Venice, IT July 26, 1998
Armitage, Diane. Drawings about Growth, THE Magazine, Santa Fe, NM July 1997
Greg Murr is a visual artist concentrating in drawing, painting and print media. He makes pictures with a consideration for the natural world, and in particular, phenomena that challenge our perceptions and understanding of it. His work has appeared in exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Austin Museum of Art and the Arkansas Art Center. He has served as a visiting artist and instructor at Wake Forest University and at the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica in Venice, Italy, and has been a Resident Fellow at the MacDowell Colony, the Robert M. MacNamara Foundation and the Morris Graves Foundation. His work is in permanent collections that include the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Sheldon Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Tamarind Institute and Flatbed Press have published editions of his work. Murr received a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of New Mexico (1997) and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wake Forest University (1993).
