Balancing Your Life with Ellen Susman - Elizabeth Murray Interview
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ต.ค. 2024
- ELIZABETH MURRAY
Painter and printmaker Elizabeth Murray is considered to be one of the most important abstract artists of our time. In this special half-hour segment, Ellen discusses motherhood, making art, and the trauma of experiencing 9/11 in her own backyard. Murray also describes the experience of seeing a retrospective of her own work at New York's Museum of Modern Art just one year before her death from lung cancer in 2007.
This is wonderful! She was amazing I met her in the 90's. She said something that changed my life forever she said to me "When you find yourself you find your style". This will stay with me forever.
I had those very same thoughts after I had my baby. I was so blessed to have had my best friend with me who also became my baby's godmother. She already had three children at that time and she was able to explain to me what I was feeling and that just about every woman has some kind of postpartum after having her first child. Though everyone's experience is different, mine was similar to Elizabeth Murray's.
I started out very scared and paranoid, and I think it was because I was hit by a drunk driver when I was seven months pregnant and had to have a C section in order to save her. She was born not breathing, the umbilical cord was wrapped around her neck multiple times, and I could see her tongue hanging from her mouth. I did not panic because my doctors, my nurse, and my midwife (another best friend) were very calm and I did not hear the time of demise.
Moreover, I felt GOD in that room and every time I looked at the doctors I saw a strange light around their heads. Also, the nurse's voice talking to my baby as she worked on her and my midwife talking in my ear kept me very calm and at peace. So, as a result of the aforementioned experiences, my postpartum went from paranoia to that of an Amazon woman (not a fighter, but a protector).
I brought my baby to work with me, I brought her to school with me, and I would never hire babysitters to go out. When she started school, I never allowed her to ride school buses, and I never allowed her to sleepover at anyone's house. However, I did allow her to have sleepovers as much as she wanted. Once she became a teenager, I loosen my grip on her and told her she could hang out with her friends, but by that time she would only go if I would drive her and wait for her. Of course, that worked for me and I did.
The only shock was that her friends and her friends' parents loved that I was always around because I could drive them all home or they would stay at my house. Now, my daughter has graduated from college and is working. To this day, she tells me she loved that I was always with her. I did not tell her how sick I became and cried for two weeks when she went away to college! 😉
Sorry for such a protracted comment, but thank you for allowing me to share my story. It felt great! Have a wonderful Sabbath Day!
Cancer’s fucked up. Elizabeth Murray, she of the fantastic wild, crazy hair, was the most original painter/sculptor? of the last 50 years.
I studied under Elizabeth. She was great and her legacy will endure.
I didn't know who this artist was. Now I do and she is great artist , a decent human being and a mother. I hope she recovered from cancer.
I studied with Elizabeth Murray at School Of Visual Arts in 1977. She was very encouraging. Her power was in helping the student find their voice and never giving up
I love it !!!
Very clear minded Lady - she was so honest and plain in her thoughts. "I am a woman trying to be a painter ... Working is about being human- that goes into your work... I believe in the spirit of life and I think that art directly addresses that."
Thanks that we had her here and still have her art.
I didnt know Eliz Murray had such an extensive background, and became a great success... an untimely loss for such an artist. thanks for the video.
I love her artistic spirit. it speak though her words and art .🦋
she is a lovely woman, and what is strange is i believe i met her and worked with her at some point, maybe she was present at Yale
This is a great interview ! Thank you :-)
Inspiring. Very cool !
Eternal youth
really enjoyed this
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