Students and Faculty are invited to join u s for a discussion of MA candidate in Critical and Curatorial Studies Jacqu eline Mabey’s exhibition the strange space that will keep us together\, a s urvey of the work of Montreal-based painter Wil Murray.
Grant Arnold has worked at the Vancouver Art Gallery since 1992. The first Audain Curato r of British Columbia Art\, he has organized exhibitions such as Mark Lewis : Modern Time\, Fred Herzog: Vancouver Photographs\, and Real Pictures: Pho tographs from the Collection of Claudia Beck and Andrew Gruft.
The st range space that will keep us together consists of a selection of works mad e after the July 2003 destruction by fire of Murray’s West Pender Street st udio space\, the historic Pender Auditorium\, to the present day. Murray’s work explores the horrors of banal choices. In every choice\, there is an e lement of madness. The most reasoned decision is still a leap of faith into an unknowable future- a leap which is never made alone\, as its consequenc es ripple out. Paint is poured onto a support\, slowly built up layer by la yer\, sections are cut out and tacked onto other works. Marks are made and effaced\, at some points visible\, at others concealed. A story is told\, b ut the tale is not straightforward. Against mastery\, against autonomy\, Mu rray’s process is suggestive of the tension between the terror of the conti ngency of identity and the spaces caused by incommensurable differences.
Wil Murray was born and raised in Calgary\, Alberta. He attended the Al berta College of Art + Design for two years before moving to Vancouver to o pen a studio. Murray was short-listed for the RBC Painting Competition (200 5) and was included in the Magenta Foundation’s Carte Blanche Vol. 2: Paint ing (2007). Represented by the Patrick Mikhail Gallery\, Murray’s work is i ncluded in collections in Canada and the United States.
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