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SANDPAPER FATE
oil on canvas
104 x 102 in (264.1 x 259 cm)
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ABOUT “SANDPAPER FATE”
When this wild work went on view for the first time at the Locks Gallery in Philadelphia in 1993, Pulitzer Prize winning art critic, Jerry Saltz, responded with this description:
“A recent work with a similarly elusive and evocative title is Sandpaper Fate. The work looks like a giant 8 in weird parenthesis. No overt subject asserts itself. The yellow—a vibrant, glowing yellow—could be a figure. If it is, there's another one of those empty holes where the heart is supposed to be. The top yellow head-shape is cracked open too, as if the mind escaped. Red tongue shapes embrace and envelope the paintings. There's an almost religious 'Resurrection' energy coming from the painting. Something makes it feel like it's ascending upwards. Something makes you think about death."
—Jerry Saltz in Humdinger, an essay for Elizabeth Murray: New Paintings, Locks Gallery, 1993
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Related Drawing: Find this drawing on the 2nd Floor
Study for "Sandpaper" 1993
Colored pencil on paper
10.7 x 8.2 in (27.1 x 20.8 cm)