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To create "Down Dog," the printers at Universal Limited Art Editions cut aluminum lithographic plates into a series of triangles and attached them for Murray to draw on. When they were ready, the plates were printed simultaneously onto matching pieces of paper.
"Down Dog" is comparable in construction to Murray’s paintings from a few years earlier, for which multiple canvases were joined to create the final, irregularly shaped composition. In style, however, the print is more reminiscent of the paintings on three-dimensional, elaborately shaped canvases that she was working on concurrently. Although "Down Dog" is necessarily flat, its rounded forms are rendered such that they appear to emerge from the paper and bound toward the viewer.
The vigorous layering and bold, sketchy coloring that Murray employs in "Down Dog" appropriately convey the excitement of this abstracted scene, in which it appears a clumsy, bounding dog has broken a table.
MD, 2013
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