Culture

Robert Murray: Working Models and Works on Paper presents six small sculptures dating from 1966 to 2016; these working models are both finished works in their own right and also proposals for large-scale sculptures. Taken together, they offer an excellent overview of Murray's prolific work over the last sixty years. The show also includes related drawings and watercolors. The Working Models, which number more than three dozen, have been exhibited together in different groupings since 1983, when they were first presented at Phillips Exeter Academy. They have travelled to the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, in British Columbia, the Centro Culturale Canadase, in Rome, and the Delaware Art Museum, among other venues. They provide the opportunity to consider a body of work that could not otherwise be brought together, given the challenges of moving and exhibiting large-scale sculptures.

As well, this exhibition includes a selection of abstract landscape paintings and prints. Murray has been a pilot his entire adult life, and these works come out of his observation of the landscape during his many years of flying. The landscape works are part of a larger series of sculptures, paintings, drawings and prints, which Murray has created over the past decade.

Athabasca, 1966
Tlingit, 2016
Bui, 2007
Kawaatebiishing, 2003
Robert Murray: Working Models and Works on Paper will be on view in the FXCollaborative Gallery from February 15 through March 23, 2018, 9 AM to 5 PM, Monday through Friday (except holidays).