Greg Murr/ USA *1971 has focused on water as found within our natural surroundings for several years. Drawing from satellite images, he parses and reconfigures rivers, lakes and other charted waters to better understand their visual form and dynamic character.
Through this exercise he expresses the ongoing mutation of the physical habitat and the vitality implied therein. In this effort, he likewise manipulates the environment, allowing personal subjectivity and aesthetic judgment to guide him. He sees this process as analogous to the larger-scale impact that businesses, communities and civilizations have upon their respective surroundings; each acts upon the finite environment according to its own interests, which may or may not include sustainability. In some small respect then, his work serves to archive the present state of the different waters he employs, while communicating the unique identity of each.  

Greg Murr was shown in numerous group and solo exhibitions in the United States and Europe. His artworks are represented in public collections in America and in multitudinous private collections.

Education

1997	MFA, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM/USA
1993	BA, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC/USA
1992	Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts, London/GB

Awards and residencies

2007	Flatbed Press, Austin, TX/USA
2004	Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, NM/USA
2003	Robert M. MacNamara Foundation, Westport Island, ME/USA Morris Graves Foundation, Loleta, CA/USA
2001	MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH/USA

Selected solo exhibitions

2009	The Usual Politics, Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York/USA Mississippi Paintings, Perimeter Gallery, Chicago/USA Awash; cambi fantastici della laguna veneziana, Galleria il Sotoportego, Venice/IT
2008	Change the position I, Gallery artMbassy, Berlin/DE
2007	Drawing the Water’s Edge, Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL/USA Waterline, James Patrick Gallery, Wiscasset, ME/USA
2006	Land and Sea, Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice/IT
2005	Hudson River Overview, Morgan Lehman Gallery, Lakeville, CT/USA
2004	Tropism; New Works on Paper, Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice/IT
2003	New Drawings and Paintings, Perimeter Gallery, New York, NY/USA
2001	Recent Paintings, Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, NM/USA (also 2000, 1999, 1998)

   
Selected group exhibitions

2010	Cities in flux, WHITECONCEPTS, Berlin/DE Abstraction, Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL/USA Gesture, Hopkins Hall Gallery, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH/USA
2009	Internal Compasses, Spaces Gallery, Cleveland/USA Space Matrix 01, WHITECONCEPTS, Berlin/DE Americana, The Front, New Orleans/USA
2008	Preview Berlin, Gallery artMbassy, Berlin/DE Visions: Contemporary Drawings from the Dyke Collection, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock/USA (travels to Naples Museum of Art, Naples, FL)
2006	Hot Picks/06, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY/USA    Fresh Ink; Flatbed Editions, Nancy Wilson Scanlan Gallery, Austin, TX/USA Greg Murr, Linda Plotkin, Paul Rinaldi, Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL/USA Premio Leonardo Sciascia, Centro per l´Incisione, Museo dell´Agro Veientano, Formello (Rome)/IT
2005	Prints into Drawings, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY/USA          Fresh Ink: Prints from Flatbed Press, Salt Lake Arts Center, Salt lake City, UT/USA Unseen Forces; Greg Murr and Lana Bernberg, Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL/USA Views from Venice; the Collection of the Scuola di Grafica, The Center for Book Arts, New York, NY/USA Inaugural Exhibition, JET Artworks, Washington, D.C./USA
2004	Printed Matter, Morgan Lehman Gallery, Lakeville, CT/USA Chaos/Control, Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL/USA Emerging: Franklin Evans, Greg Murr, Ruby Palmer, Morgan Lehman Gallery, Lakeville, CT/USA

Public collections
Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico/USA
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln/USA
University of New Mexico Art Museum/USA
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia/USA
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York/USA
Davis Museum, Wellesley College/USA
Progressive Collection, Kansas City/USA
Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice/IT
Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina/USA

 
 

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