Author: Ingrid Murray
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Why abstract art?
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I admire photorealism: it takes a huge amount of patience and technical skill to represents external reality well. What I love about abstract art, though, is the conveying of emotion, experience, thought, and existence through form, color, movement, texture, and composition. It represents internal reality. When I create my work,…
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(Un)Making a Home
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Familiarity is comfortable and change, no matter what it looks like, is unbearably hard. Earlier this month, I said goodbye to an apartment I loved deeply, a safe space that was home to me for longer than any other place before it. (And look at that light!) This is the…
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Doorways
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Time flies. Very soon, I’ll be living in Germany. I’ve spent the last several months purging, going through a lifetime of papers, art supplies, trinkets, and things put in closets years ago and long forgotten about.
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Permission to Be
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I chose “ease” as my word of the year precisely because recently, it hasn’t been easy. And I haven’t yet figured out how to write through it, preferring instead to emerge from my protective cocoon once everything feels more manageable again, painting in the meantime. I took part in Oliver…
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Build a Bigger Table
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It’s International Women’s Day, and just over a week after Black History Month ended. My thoughts today for those who have more privilege: Be quiet for a moment. Listen—listen to hear, to understand, to learn. Trust that those who ask for your support actually do know what they need, and do what…