Everybody Knows…Elizabeth Murray
“Fascinating portrait of the artist” (New York Times)
What Elizabeth Murray knew is that she could have it all: create vital work that was personal—and packed a punch—and still balance her art-making with a happy life as a single mother. Beginning with funk-inflected pop in the early ’60s, she moved through minimalism in the ’70s to the bold and wacky fractured canvases of her later years. Then, in 2005, just as a retrospective of her “singularly innovative body of work” was being mounted at MoMA, Murray’s story took a dramatic turn.
