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Murray Guy was a contemporary art gallery specializing in emerging and mid-career contemporary artists. Founded by Margaret Murray and Janice Guy in 1998, the gallery was located in the Chelsea, Manhattan gallery district at 453 West 17th Street. [1] It closed in early 2017 after eighteen years in business. [2]

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The gallery covered contemporary photography, video, film, sculpture, and painting.[ citation needed ]

Founders

Margaret Murray and Janice Guy. Janice Guy (born 1953 in London, UK) a photographer, produced much of her work while studying with Klaus Rinke and Bernd and Hilla Becher at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in Düsseldorf, Germany, during the 1970s.[ citation needed ]. Guy abandoned art-making in the early 1980s, however her photographs re-emerged in 2007 and have been shown in solo exhibitions at White Columns, New York (2008), The Apartment, Vancouver (2008 and 2013), Cleopatra's, New York (2015) and Higher Pictures, New York (2019).

Artists

Among the artists who exhibited at Murray Guy were the following:

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Dafoe, Taylor (February 9, 2017). "Goodbye to Murray Guy: A Look at the New York Gallery's Last Exhibition". Blouin Art Info. Retrieved March 26, 2018.
  2. 1 2 3 Russeth, Andrew (January 5, 2017). "New York Gallery Murray Guy Will Close". Art News. Retrieved March 26, 2018.
  3. Buckingham, Matthew. 2001. Subcutaneous. New York: Shark Books.
  4. Buckingham, Matthew. 2000. Matthew Buckingham films and film-installations. New York: Distributed by Murray Guy Gallery. VHS Tape.
  5. "Moyra Davey at Murray Guy." Contemporary Art Daily.
  6. 1 2 "Nashashibi/Skaer at Murray Guy New York."

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