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herbert murrie

United States

www.herbertmurrie.com

category: Painting
technique: Oilpainting
Style: Abstract

Statement:
I have a color and spatial sketch in my mind before starting my painting. I begin by pouring the colors onto the surface of the background in various shapes and patterns. The shapes and forms emerge through the constant blending and manipulation of the paint; interlacing forms, bows and curves that constantly intersect to produce spatial structures which could be altered endlessly.

To cause something to change and flow, to make it relative suites me. I edit out and build upon what I feel is working. Sometimes when images come about by chance they are fresher more organic, more inevitably. Instinct takes charge. The composition of different forms, colors, structures, proportions, harmonies, etc. comes out as an abstract system analogous to music. Letting a thing come, rather then following a precise plan can be more genuine, richer, and more alive. Music filters into my work, like lines of dialogue. The rawness of experiencing sounds, from Mozart to Dylan, is what I try to translate into a visual vocabulary. Music relies on an established structure, one that allows for infinite expression of guttural emotion. That liberty within form inspires my own explorations in painting. Feelings, sensations produce a specific emotional effect.

In my black and white paintings the elimination of color creates a simplification that has to carry the emotion alone on the shapes and spatial relationships that are formed by the intertwining swirls and blobs of paint.

Chance plays an important role in my paintings however is never blind chance: it�s a chance that is always planned, but also always a surprise.

Bio / Resumee / Statement:
EDUCATION

AMERICAN ACADEMY OF FINE ART

CHICAGO ACADEMY OF FINE ART

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS / B.F.A.

EXHIBITIONS

THE TUCKER GALLERY / EVANSTON, IL. 2008

THE TUCKER GALLERY / EVANSTON, IL. 2006

THE TUCKER GALLERY / EVANSTON, IL. 2005

ILLINOIS CENTER / CHICAGO, IL. 2004

ZOLLA-LIEBERMAN GROUP SHOW / CHICAGO, IL. 2004

AUSTRALIAN EXHIBITION CENTER / CHICAGO, IL. 2002

LYDON FINE ART / CHICAGO, IL. 2002

ILLINOIS CENTER / CHICAGO, IL. 2001

LYDON FINE ART GROUP SHOW / CHICAGO, IL. 2001

LYDON FINE ART / CHICAGO, IL. 2000

SLOANE-JORDAN GALLERY / AUSTIN, TX. 2000

NEW INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION GROUP SHOW / WOODSTOCK, NY 1999

WESTMORELAND CENTER OF THE ARTS GROUP SHOW / PA 1999

QUINCY ART CENTER GROUP SHOW / QUINCY, IL 1999

MARYLAND FEDERATION OF ART GROUP SHOW / ANNAPOLIS, MD 1999

NAVARRO COUNCIL OF THE ARTS GROUP SHOW / CORSICANA, TX 1999

SLOANE-JORDAN GALLERY / AUSTIN, TX 1999

LYDON FINE ARTS / CHICAGO, IL 1999

OLIN FINE ARTS GALLERY AT WASHINGTON & JEFFERSON COLLEGE GROUP SHOW /
WASHINGTON, PA 1998

THE BAKER ART CENTER GROUP SHOW / LIBERAL, KS 1998

TUBAC CENTER OF THE ARTS GROUP SHOW / SANTA CRUZ, AZ 1998

LYDON FINE ARTS / CHICAGO, IL 1998

COLLECTIONS

NOVO NORDISK CORPORATION / PRINCETON, NJ

ILLINOIS CENTER / CHICAGO, IL

IRON FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT, INC. / WINNETKA, IL.

CHICAGO GROWTH PARTNERS / CHICAGO, IL.

Activities:

	It Was a Rok-A-Day Painting Mixing technique 89 x 120 x 5 cm 2010 Price: 6.500 Euro more information
	Stone and Snow, Silence and Air Painting Mixing technique 150 x 100 x 5 cm 2010 Price: 7.500 Euro more information
	Birds Fly, Butterflies Die Painting Mixing technique 97 x 150 x 5 cm 2010 Price: 7.500 Euro more information
	White Light Flashes the Frost Tonight Painting Mixing technique 92 x 91 x 5 cm 2010 Price: 6.500 Euro more information
	Blck Crows in the Meadow Painting Mixing technique 100 x 120 x 5 cm 2010 Price: 5.500 Euro more information
	Livin' Down in New York Town Painting Mixing technique 120 x 100 x 5 cm 2010 Price: 5.500 Euro more information
	All the Dogs of Europe Bark Painting Mixing technique 77 x 117 x 5 cm 2010 Price: 4.800 Euro more information
	Franklin & Eleanor Painting Mixing technique 100 x 120 x 5 cm 2010 Price: 6.000 Euro more information
	A White Dwarf Star Painting Mixing technique 100 x 120 x 5 cm 2010 Price: 6.500 Euro more information
	Beware of Flying Objects Painting Mixing technique 125 x 187 x 5 cm 2009 Price: 10.000 Euro more information
	Notes & Thangs & Colors and Bangs Painting Mixing technique 63 x 189 x 5 cm 2009 Price: 15.000 Euro more information
	California Dreamers Painting Oilpainting 122 x 180 x 5 cm 2009 Price: 7.500 Euro more information
	Yellow Fields with Twisted Oaks Painting Acryl 76 x 152 x 5 cm 2009 Price: 6.500 Euro more information
	Dog Days of Summer Painting Acryl 76 x 152 x 5 cm 2009 Price: 6.500 Euro more information
	Gray Clouds Turning Crimson Painting Acryl 76 x 152 x 5 cm 2009 Price: 6.500 Euro more information
	Blueberry, Apple, Cherry, Pumpkin and Plum Painting Acryl 76 x 152 x 5 cm 2009 Price: 6.500 Euro more information
	Rainey Day Woman Painting Acryl 210 x 130 x 5 cm 2009 more information
	Untitled / Black and White and Red All Over Painting Acryl 122 x 180 x 5 cm 2009 Price: 7.500 Euro more information
	Untitled / Shades of Gray and Blue Painting Acryl 122 x 180 x 5 cm 2009 Price: 7.500 Euro more information
	Untitled #9 Painting Acryl 91 x 91 x 5 cm 2009 Price: 3.500 Euro more information
	Untitled / Red, Yellow and Blue Painting Acryl 122 x 180 x 5 cm 2009 Price: 7.500 Euro more information
	Untitled #8 Painting Acryl 91 x 91 x 5 cm 2009 Price: 3.500 Euro more information
	Untitled #7 Painting Acryl 91 x 91 x 5 cm 2009 Price: 3.500 Euro more information
	Untitled #6 Painting Oilpainting 91 x 91 x 5 cm 2009 Price: 3.500 Euro more information
	Untitled #5 Painting Acryl 108 x 91 x 5 cm 2009 Price: 6.800 Euro more information
	Untitled #4 Painting Acryl 91 x 91 x 5 cm 2009 Price: 3.500 Euro more information
	Untitled #3 Painting Acryl 91 x 91 x 5 cm 2009 Price: 3.500 Euro more information
	Untitled #2 Painting Acryl 9 x 91 x 5 cm 2009 Price: 3.500 Euro more information
	Untitled #1 Painting Acryl 91 x 91 x 5 cm 2009 Price: 3.500 Euro more information
	Our Planet from Above #2 Painting Oilpainting 50 x 50 cm 2007 Price: 3.500 Euro more information
	Our Planet from Above #8 Painting Oilpainting 50 x 50 x 5 cm 2007 Price: 3.500 Euro more information
	Our Planet from Above Painting Oilpainting 50 x 50 x 5 cm 2007 Price: 3.500 Euro more information
	Our Planet from Above #10 tip Painting Oilpainting 50 x 50 x 5 cm 2007 Price: 3.500 Euro more information
	Our Planet from Above #16 Painting Oilpainting 50 x 50 x 5 cm 2007 Price: 3.500 Euro more information
	Our Planet from Above #5 Painting Oilpainting 50 x 50 x 5 cm 2007 Price: 3.500 Euro more information
	Petals of Red, Leaves of Gold, Streaks of White Painting Oilpainting 80 x 240 x 5 cm 2007 Price: 8.000 Euro more information
	I Long to See You in the Morning Light Painting Oilpainting 96 x 96 x 5 cm 2007 Price: 4.800 Euro more information
	I Long to Reach for You in the Night Painting Oilpainting 96 x 96 x 5 cm 4800 Price: 4.800 Euro more information
	Take Me on a Trip on Your Magic Swirling Ship Painting Oilpainting 90 x 120 x 5 cm 2006 Price: 5.000 Euro more information
	Fourth of July Painting Oilpainting 102 x 144 x 5 cm 2006 Price: 6.800 Euro more information
	Eye of the Storm Painting Oilpainting 96 x 91 x 5 cm 2008 Price: 5.800 Euro more information
	The Answer is Blowin' in the Wind Painting Oilpainting 115 x 89 x 5 cm 2008 Price: 7.200 Euro more information
	As the Last Fire truck from Hell Goes Rolling By Painting Oilpainting 130 x 210 x 5 cm 2006 Price: 10.000 Euro more information
	Street Music Painting Oilpainting 99 x 146 x 5 cm 2006 Price: 7.800 Euro more information
	Il Fantino Painting Oilpainting 150 x 120 x 5 cm 2001 Price: 6.800 Euro more information
	Last Sunset Glimmer Painting Oilpainting 62 x 200 x 5 cm 2006 Price: 6.800 Euro more information
	I Saw Alvis Passing By Painting Oilpainting 90 x 240 x 5 cm 2007 Price: 8.200 Euro more information
	What Do We Know of Our Soul But the Surface tip Painting Oilpainting 210 x 130 x 5 cm 2005 Price: 9.500 Euro more information