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Saturday, Feb 1, 2025
BAMPFA
Elizabeth Murray Special Edition Print Mailing
Sign up by February 1, 2025, to receive a copy of the print mailing (limited edition; first come, first served)
Occasioned by the presentation of Elizabeth Murray’s monumental work Joanne in the Canyon (1991) in the exhibition Making Their Mark, BAMPFA’s Art Lab collaborates with the Estate of Elizabeth Murray to create a special edition risograph print mailing. Murray was first featured at BAMPFA in her significant 1987 MATRIX exhibition, and we celebrate her return to the museum with this mailing featuring a rare drawing from the artist’s personal notebooks, printed in the Art Lab studio. Sign up online to receive a copy of this limited edition print while supplies last.
Elizabeth Murray (1940–2007) was born in Chicago and showed an early interest in making and studying art. While attending the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, she was deeply influenced by the work of Paul Cézanne, which inspired her to pursue a degree in painting. Following her education, Murray moved to New York, where she developed a unique approach to art making and honed her intuitive ability to masterfully combine shapes and colors in both two- and three-dimensional realms. Her retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in 2005 was only the fifth time the museum had featured a retrospective of a woman. Murray was first represented by Paula Cooper Gallery and her estate now shows with Gladstone Gallery.