Elizabeth Murray: 

    Elizabeth Murray's work is very abstract. I find her process very interesting, incorporating shape and color to the extreme. Very intuitively she cuts out shapes (very large scale) and puts them together on an equal plain seemingly in a haphazard manner. She then paints the shapes using many bright colors. Although her work seems to create tension the way the shapes are arranged together across the whole piece there is a strong sense of unity that draws your eye across the entire painting. She leaves much up to interpretation in her work but some particular shapes are representational in each piece.  I appreciate her method of painting and find it to be very inspiring. She does not become bewildered by her artwork or confused about where to start, she simply goes for it. There is a sense of freedom to her work. One of her pieces is on display in our Hunter Museum (a piece discussed in the video at the following link http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/elizabeth-murray) but here are a few examples of her work.