Murray Guy
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Murray Guy was a contemporary art gallery specializing in emerging and mid-career contemporary artists. Founded by Margaret Murray and Janice Guy in 1998, the gallery was located in the Chelsea, Manhattan gallery district at 453 West 17th Street.{{cite web |url=http://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/1925315/goodbye-to-murray-guy-a-look-at-the-new-york-gallerys-last |title=Goodbye to Murray Guy: A Look at the New York Gallery's Last Exhibition |last=Dafoe |first=Taylor |date=February 9, 2017 |website=Blouin Art Info |publisher= |access-date=March 26, 2018 |quote=}} It closed in early 2017 after eighteen years in business.{{cite web |url=http://www.artnews.com/2017/01/05/new-york-gallery-murray-guy-will-close/ |title=New York Gallery Murray Guy Will Close |last=Russeth | first=Andrew |date=January 5, 2017 |website=Art News |publisher= |access-date=March 26, 2018 |quote=}}
The gallery covered contemporary photography, video, film, sculpture, and painting.{{citation needed|date=May 2014}}
Founders
Margaret Murray and Janice Guy. Janice Guy (born 1953 in London, UK) a photographer, produced much of her work while studying with Klaus Rinke and Bernd and Hilla Becher at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in Düsseldorf, Germany, during the 1970s.{{citation needed|date=May 2014}}. Guy abandoned art-making in the early 1980s, however her photographs re-emerged in 2007 and have been shown in solo exhibitions at White Columns, New York (2008), The Apartment, Vancouver (2008 and 2013), Cleopatra's, New York (2015) and Higher Pictures, New York (2019).
Artists
Among the artists who exhibited at Murray Guy were the following:
- Matthew Buckingham.Buckingham, Matthew. 2001. Subcutaneous. New York: Shark Books.Buckingham, Matthew. 2000. Matthew Buckingham films and film-installations. New York: Distributed by Murray Guy Gallery. VHS Tape.
- Leidy Churchman
- Moyra Davey[http://www.contemporaryartdaily.com/2012/05/moyra-davey-at-murray-guy/ "Moyra Davey at Murray Guy." Contemporary Art Daily.]
- Matthew Higgs
- An-My Lê
- Zoe Leonard
- Rosalind Nashashibi[http://art-agenda.com/reviews/nashashibiskaer-at-murray-guynew-york/ "Nashashibi/Skaer at Murray Guy New York."]
- Barbara Probst
- Lucy Skaer
- Ann Lislegaard
- Kota Ezawa
- Patricia Esquivias
References
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External links
- {{official|murrayguy.com}}
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Category:Contemporary art galleries in the United States
Category:Defunct art museums and galleries in Manhattan
Category:1998 establishments in New York City
Category:2017 disestablishments in New York (state)
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