As
early as 1964 Clark Murray's geometric paintings began to attract
critical attention in the San Francisco Bay Area. One of the pioneering
generation of minimal painters from the sixties, Clark Murray had
his first one-man exhibition with the legendary west coast art
dealer Nicholas Wilder in 1966. Well known at the time for creating
horizontal, monochramatic, shaped canvasses, Murray's work was
both minimal and sculptural. He experimented with metal and other
sculptural materials in his work. He exhibited his paintings in
New York City with the Bykert Gallery in 1966. Clark Murray moved
to New York City from Los Angeles during the heyday of minimalism
in the late sixties. Tough minded and precise Murray's work expresses
a particular poetic solitude and quiet mystery. His tonal paintings
reflect his lifelong interest in the quiet simplicity of placing
abstract colors in relationship to one another and to their support.
These paintings also reflect his masterful feeling for surface
and his painterly touch. Currently Clark Murray lives and works
in upstate New York.
— Ronnie
Landfield, January 1999
