Elizabeth Murray Armory Show Report: Day 4 Elizabeth Murray's Dream—Mon. Oct 25, 1994 Elizabeth Murray Dies at 66 MoMA Announces Major Acquisitions

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The exhibition, featuring 11 paintings and seven mixed-media works on paper, is Murray’s first solo show since her retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in October 2005.

A catalogue accompanies the exhibition and includes an essay by cultural critic Dave Hickey, who writes, “Of all the artists of her generation, who began their careers in the backwash of pop and minimalism, Murray alone found something to do with the pop sensibility that retains its spirit and ebullience. Murray’s paintings feel like something... The exploding images have their own specific energy and the lucid colors have their own music… Murray’s idiomatic form of expression may be best described as a still life painting that is anything but still.”

Her paintings are vibrant abstractions, sometimes of figures and everyday objects, combined to create visual metaphors of the world around us.

And her work has been the subject of nearly 60 solo exhibitions in galleries around the world since her New York debut in the “1972 Annual Exhibition: Contemporary American Painting at the Whitney Museum of American Art” and has participated in six Whitney Biennial exhibitions since 1973.