Alexis Murray

Alexis Murray (1970-2018) “I am very interested in thoughts around coping, and all the behaviors we allow it to rationalize, organize, dictate, and create. The paintings are rooted in a love of technical painting, then wink to formal teachings – while brimming with experimentation, thus a huge range of surfaces and textures. The images touch on ideas of climate change and drought, vulnerability and power, the relentless devotion and anxieties of family life, desire, sexuality, and sexual identity, the sacrifices of career, failure, memory, and then, of course, the business of death –  all imagined with hope, humor, and humanity.”