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Elizabeth Murray: Painters Progress
4 March 2026 — 25 May 2026
On NowTraces Murray's breakthrough 1980s practice of fracturing canvases into 'shattered shapes' — depicting everyday objects distorted into organic, multi-canvas compositions.
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"I begin my work by making a big mess and then find my way out." Over the course of her five-decade career, Elizabeth Murray sought to incorporate dimension and movement into painting by fracturing, splicing, and layering her canvases. In the 1980s, she experienced a breakthrough: after years of making flat, two-dimensional paintings, she began fragmenting her compositions across multiple canvases, adding dynamism and depth....
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© Museum of Modern Art
Elizabeth Murray: Painters Progress
4 March 2026 — 25 May 2026
On NowTraces Murray's breakthrough 1980s practice of fracturing canvases into 'shattered shapes' — depicting everyday objects distorted into organic, multi-canvas compositions.
From Museum of Modern Art
"I begin my work by making a big mess and then find my way out." Over the course of her five-decade career, Elizabeth Murray sought to incorporate dimension and movement into painting by fracturing, splicing, and layering her canvases. In the 1980s, she experienced a breakthrough: after years of making flat, two-dimensional paintings, she began fragmenting her compositions across multiple canvases, adding dynamism and depth....
Read more at Museum of Modern Art →Critic Reviews
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