Everybody Knows... Elizabeth Murray

Everybody Knows... Elizabeth Murray is an intimate portrait of the groundbreaking artist Elizabeth Murray that explores the relationship between Murrays family life and career and reconsiders her place in the contemporary art history. Murrays personal journals, voiced in the film by Meryl Streep, give viewers a privileged window into Murrays internal struggles and incredible ambition. Verité footage of Murray in her studio and home videos help round out this profile of her life and exclusive interviews with art world luminaries including Chuck Close, Vija Celmins, Adam Weinberg, Robert Storr, and Roberta Smith provide the historical backdrop for the New York art scene.

Elizabeth Murray moved to New York City in 1967. In 2005, almost forty years later, Murray was the fifth woman to be celebrated with a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Everybody Knows... Elizabeth Murray traces Murray's life from her years as a struggling single mother to having a bustling, growing family and thriving career. From her early 1960s "funk-inflected pop," to her painterly minimalism in the 70s, and on to her dynamic fractured canvases of the 1990s and 2000s, Murray worked without hesitation throughand often in spite ofmarket trends, historical movements and her failing health.

Murray's paintings defy categorization. She broke convention, and made an indelible imprint on contemporary art. This film chronicles her remarkable journey from an impoverished childhood to artistic maverick, before she lost her life to cancer in 2007. Everybody Knows... Elizabeth Murray cements Murrays legacy as one of the great painters of our time.

Upplagd i sortimentet: 18 oktober, 2017