WIL MURRAY: Spray Can Sea. Ooh Bared Ass, Vet Her
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Norberg Hall 333B 36 Avenue SE, Calgary, Alberta T2G 1W2

Wil Murray, "Tenderburg Lickvee," 2016
29" x 37", archival inkjet print
Over the past 4 years, Murray has split his time at his studios in Okotoks, Ab and Berlin, Germany. This recent body of work is a continuation of his solo exhibition presented at the Art Gallery of Alberta in the summer 2016, and a transitional step toward his work for next year’s Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art.
Wil Murray is known as the wild man of contemporary Canadian painting. A lifted brushstroke here, a folded dried paint skin there: he creates a new visual dialogue that is equal parts paint, sculpture and at times, photography. Always investigating his media and using traditional materials in ways the contemporary viewer had not seen, his previous work was as much theatrical sideshow as they were contemporary painting.
Wil Murray was born in Calgary, Canada in 1978. He studied painting at the Alberta College of Art and Design and has since then exhibited regularly in both international and Canadian venues such as The National Gallery of Canada, East and Peggy Phelps Galleries (Claremont, US) and Staatsgalerie Prenzlauer Berg (Berlin). Recent solo exhibitions include; ‘Please Boss Remember Me’, VITRINE Bermondsey Street, London (2014); ‘Die Welt in Farben’, P|M Gallery, Toronto (2014); Carte Blanche 2, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto (2012); and ‘Last Summer I Build A 1:8 Scale Model of Your Vagina’, Staatsgalerie Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin. He received a honourable mention in the prestigious RBC Canadian Painting Competition. He has been included in the Alberta Biennial in 2015 and will be featured again in the 2017 Alberta Biennial.
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