Herbert Murrie

Herbert Lee Murrie was born in Chicago, Illinois.

Herbert’s art school training was classic in nature. His love of painting leaned toward the French Impressionists, Monet, Cezanne, Sisley, and Gauguin to name a few. Never the less, he greatly admired what was happening in the early 60’s and 70’s by the American abstract painters, Wilhelm de Kooning, Arshile Gorki, Mark Rothko’s early abstractions and Jackson Pollock’s drip paintings. The Renaissance painters of Italy as well had an influence on him especially in the area of color.

Over the past 10 to 12 years his painting moved rapidly to the abstract. He knew he had to keep pushing forward toward a totally non-objective, purely emotional state. He never felt the same emotion or excitement before that he feels in his abstract work today.

One presupposes, of course, that words are used to convey information about the idea and the context. None of his paintings function as illustrations of an idea; ultimately they are the idea. The shapes and forms emerge through the constant blending and manipulations of the paint. A non hierarchical interweaving of form with space and color…interlacing forms, bows and curves that constantly intersect to produce fantastic spatial structures...

AMERICAN ACADEMY OF FINE ART

CHICAGO ACADEMY OF FINE ART

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS / SCHOOL OF DESIGN


EXHIBITION

ROCKFORD ART MUSEUM / ROCKFORD, IL 2015

GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY / GRAND RAPIDS,MI 2015

ZHOU B. ART EXHIBITIONS / JENNIFER NORBACK FINE ARTS
(SOLO SHOW) / CHICAGO, IL. 2013 /

LA CHIESA DI SAN FRANCESCO (SOLO SHOW) / ASCIANO, ITALY 2013

JENNIFER NORBACK FINE ARTS (SOLO SHOW) / CHICAGO, IL. 2013

FIGURE ONE GALLERY (GROUP SHOW), SCHOOL OF ART AND DESIGN, UNIVERSITY OF
ILLINOIS, CHAMPAIGN-URBANA, IL. 2011

THE ARC GALLERY (SOLO SHOW) / CHICACO, IL. 2011

MUSEO CIVICO, PALAZZO PUBLICO (SOLO SHOW) / SIENA, ITALY 2010

JENNIFER NORBACH FINE ARTS (SOLO SHOW) / CHICAGO, IL. 2010

THE TUCKER GALLERY (SOLO SHOW) / EVANSTON, IL. 2008

THE TUCKER GALLERY (SOLO SHOW) / EVANSTON, IL. 2006

THE TUCKER GALLER...