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TRaC Review Maxine Speier (Visual Arts TRaC, Fall 05) Reviews Elizabeth Murray at The Museum of Modern Art  The first of Murray's works which truly grabs your attention and pulls you into the exhibit consists of two kidney-shaped blue wood and canvas structures that protrude from the wall. Each as large as yourself, an intense shade of deep blue, "Dis Pair," has coils and snaking tubes that lead through it and a large keyhole shape that has been cut into it. This sculptural painting is displayed outside the exhibit doors contains and represents the elements which you will notice throughout the Elizabeth Murray Retrospective. While many retrospectives try so hard to show an artist's diversity and experimentation that they fail to show the simple development and continuity of an artist, the Murray Retrospective manages to do both. Arranged in chronological order, exhibit shows her diversity through her different focuses over the decades. However, many themes remain central to her work throughout the entire retrospective. By seeing how these themes are developed, the viewer is being allowed an internal look into Murray, to see the kidney-shaped bodily organs and the snaking coils of the intestines and the bright, bleeding colors and the keyhole which marks the truest of secrets. Murray's works have always reflected a journey inside. From the first appearance of the kidney-shape in "Beginner," the first of her larger canvases, to her most recent "Do the Dance," which is so complex and tangled with images that it cannot help but represent the body's internal intestines and roadwork - the parts that keep us doing the dance of life. Murray's works may often look large and bold, but by examining them together, you can obtain a clear sense of her much deeper vulnerability. |