Adin Murray
BIO
Adin Murray was born in 1974 in Manchester, Massachusetts. He received his BA in Art/Biology from Tulane University in 1997, and his MFA in painting from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2008. He currently lives and paints in Savannah, GA.
ARTIST STATMENT
During the summer of 2007, I drove across the Nullarbor Plain, a vast block of limestone that stretches 1,200 kilometers from east to west between South Australia and Western Australia. The name Nullarbor is derived from the Latin “nullus” (nothing) and “arbor” (tree); true to its name, there are no trees, and the landscape is completely flat in all directions. As I drove, the land itself remained unchanged for days, yet I was still completely captivated by my surroundings, particularly the sky, which was an ever-changing canvas of color and clouds which I am attempting to represent in my current body of work.
I have always been drawn to landscape in my painting, and the Nullarbor Plain offers both a continuation and departure from this theme. The paintings I am currently working on are “landscapes” inasmuch as they are inspired by the Nullarbor, but in the end they are “skyscapes,” portraying the limitless Nullarbor sky in its various incarnations
The size of the work is necessarily large, as I aim to reproduce not only the visual aspects of the Nullarbor, but also the feeling of one’s own smallness in the face of such expansive surroundings. Their size requires that the viewer look throughout the paintings, and not just at them; in this way I am hoping to involve the viewer as an active participant in the experience of nature, and thereby evoke a feeling of the sublime.
RESUME
2008 Savannah College of Art and Design, MFA Candidate: Painting
1997 Tulane University, New Orleans, La., Bachelor of Arts
Experience
2009 “SCAD-N.”, The Rymer Gallery, Nashville, TN
2008 Telfair Art Fair, juried selection
2008 “Nullarbor Crossing” solo exhibition, Alexander Hall Gallery, Savannah, GA
2008 Internship with Artist Harriet Delong,
2008-2007 Solo exhibition, Savannah Hilton Head International Airport
2007 “Dirty Dozen” group show, La Galerie Bleue, Savannah, GA
2006 Six paintings commissioned by Savannah College of Art and Design
2005-2008 Open Studio, Savannah College of Art and Design
Various commissions and private collections Publications
2007 Featured in Southern Living Magazine, fall issue
2006 Featured in University of California Irvine’s literary and art publication, Faultline