The Sun and the Moon, 2005
Elizabeth Murray - For Murray, painting is an extremely physical exercise, like squeezing the paint out of the tubes. The paint is fluid and out of control, and it is her job as the artist to harness it via "my mind letting my arm make the decision." I found that she had many metaphors to describe art in a way that I could understand. Being an artist is like being a safebreaker listening for the click. She describes her cartoony work as shapes onto each other like a weird lattice with intense color. However, she takes each piece very seriously. She doesn't want her work to be too descriptive, rather, she wants to leave room for the viewer to interpret and reflect. That ideal is a key aspect of what art is. To me, she appears to be a fairly intense person. She relies on her children to help take her mind off herself. She works in isolation as many serious artists do. Art is about the self. It is an activity of intense reflection and often social isolation for many individuals.
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