Greg MURR

01 / 08

Works

Greg MURR, Host study no. 4 — Greg MURR, *Host study no. 4*, acrylic polymer on canvas, 16.5 × 17.5 in.

Greg MURR, Ribbon study no. 7 — Greg MURR, *Ribbon study no. 7*, acrylic polymer and graphite on canvas, 20 × 21.5 in.

Greg MURR, With Ribbon — Greg MURR, *With Ribbon*, watercolor on paper, 16 × 17 in.

Greg MURR, Ecce Natura — Greg MURR, *Ecce Natura*, woodcut relief print on paper, 16 × 17 in.

Greg MURR, Bout — Greg MURR, *Bout*, woodcut relief print on paper, 16 × 17 in.

Greg MURR, Fluctuations [study no. 35f] — Greg MURR, *Fluctuations [study no. 35f]*, acrylic on canvas, 38 × 40 in.

Greg MURR, Arrangement for a Ten-Character Phrase, — Greg MURR, *Arrangement for a Ten-Character Phrase,*, acrylic on canvas, 43 × 35 in.

Greg MURR, Field Cluster — Greg MURR, *Field Cluster*, acrylic on canvas, 30 × 32 in.

Greg MURR, Supercluster [25% gravitational pull] — Greg MURR, *Supercluster [25% gravitational pull]*, acrylic on canvas, 63 × 55 in.

Greg MURR, Nascence [study 455] — Greg MURR, *Nascence [study 455]*, acrylic on panel, 30 × 32 in.

Greg MURR, Second Generation Matter — Greg MURR, *Second Generation Matter*, acrylic on canvas, 38 × 40 in.

Greg MURR, Transitory — Greg MURR, *Transitory*, acrylic on canvas, 40 × 68 in.

Greg MURR, New Growth — Greg MURR, *New Growth*, watercolor on paper, 16 × 17 in.

Greg MURR, Much to Kinsman's Delight — Greg MURR, *Much to Kinsman's Delight*, acrylic polymer and graphite on canvas, 29.5 × 31.5 in.

Greg MURR, Pearl Study No. 16 (Red Torsade) — Greg MURR, *Pearl Study No. 16 (Red Torsade)*, acrylic polymer and Prismacolor on paper, 16 × 17 in.

Greg MURR, Study for a New Hybrid — Greg MURR, *Study for a New Hybrid*, watercolor on paper, 16 × 17 in.

Greg MURR, The Usual Politics (Nature) — Greg MURR, *The Usual Politics (Nature)*, oil on canvas, 55 × 67 in.

Greg MURR, To Have and to Hold — Greg MURR, *To Have and to Hold*, acrylic polymer and graphite on canvas, 29.5 × 31.5 in.

Greg MURR, Walker — Greg MURR, *Walker*, acrylic polymer and graphite on canvas, 29.5 × 31.5 in.

About the artist

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 2013 Unseen Nature, 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, Galleria il Sotoportego, 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, Galleria il Sotoportego, Scuola 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

SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2013 Unseen Nature, Susan Street Fine Art, Solana Beach, CA 2012 Nature (a preview), WhiteConcepts Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany 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, DE 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) (catalog) Change the Position; Jan Bauer & Greg Murr, artMbassy Galerie, Berlin, DE Preview: Berlin Art Fair, artMbassy Galerie, Berlin, DE 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, CN (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, MX 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 (catalog) 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

WORKSHOPS / SEMINARS 2011 Seminar: Pictorially Communicating Growth and Vitality. Water-based Media, August 1–10; Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice, Italy 2010 Seminar: Sull’Acqua; Un’Indagazione dell’Ambiente Particolare di Venezia. Painting, August 2-9; Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice, Italy 2008 Seminar: Studi Organici; Aspetti della Vitalità. Water-based Media, March 15-16; Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice, Italy 2006 Seminar: La Materia dello Spazio; il Mondo (Im)materiale. Painting, November 18-19, 25-26; Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice, Italy 2000 Seminar: Synesthesia; Bridging the Senses. Printmaking, February 1-3 Guest Artist and Lecturer, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC

GUEST LECTURES 2010 University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (artist’s lecture) Kansas City Art Institute (professional practices lecture, artist’s lecture) University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE (professional practices lecture, artist’s lecture) Ohio State University, Columbus, OH (professional practices lecture) Otterbein University (professional practices lecture) Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC (professional practices lecture) 2003 Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, OH (artist’s lecture) Wake Forest University (artist’s lecture) 2000 Wake Forest University (artist’s lecture) University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

RESIDENCIES / AWARDS 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 1997 Fellowship, Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, (teaching appointment,) Venice, Italy

PUBLICATIONS 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

SELECTED COLLECTIONS Whitney Museum of American Art Philadelphia Museum of Art Davis Museum, Wellesley College Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe Árvore Cooperativa 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

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