{"id":27499,"date":"2016-01-08T14:02:45","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T19:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/?p=27499"},"modified":"2016-01-08T15:28:43","modified_gmt":"2016-01-08T20:28:43","slug":"murrz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2016\/01\/08\/murrz\/","title":{"rendered":"~MURRZ . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nMURRZ \/ @MURRZ . . . on the Lower East Side, NYC. NOV 14, 2015
\nPHOTO: NANCY SMITH<\/p>\n

MURRZ . . is one of the co-curators, along with ZROPRO \/ @ZEROPRODUCTIVITY . . .
\nof the big BOUNDLESS BROOKLYN & GRUMPY BERT . . ‘TAT IT UP’ show, opening to-nite – JAN 8, 2016 \/ 7-9 – at GRUMPY BERT – 82 BOND ST, BROOKLYN, NY.
\n& LOOKS LIKE, it’s going to be . . . HUGE !!
\nsee: ‘TAT IT UP’ – GRUMPY BERT !!<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/www.grumpybert.com\/blogs\/art-shows-events\/80665028-tat-it-up<\/p>\n

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\nMURRZ STICKER, 2015
\nI met her, just wandering around the opening, at the big ‘COLOSSAL’ – NYC local street scene \/ art group show, last November 2015 . . at VOLA VIDA on Grand St. on the Lower East Side. NYC.
\nwhat struck me first were – the small file of hand-drawn decal\/slap\/stickers she was showing a friend. The stickers were in slightly different sizes, with different colors, and inserted into what looked like her sketchbook. it had a hard cover, so I guess that was the best way to keep them clean, and flat & safe.
\nand still be able to show them. they all seemed to be unique<\/strong> images, hand-drawn<\/strong> originals, lol slapped down with sharpies – not repros – which intrigued me.
\nthe whole moment – intrigued me !! <\/p>\n

but esp – this image !!
\nso strange, so hardcore. so mad max meets girly. but moves . . on !!
\nthat’s the important part – the work moves, and moves . . . on. if you know what I mean.
\nit just gets past the initial idea, and takes flight – is the best way I can put it.
\nthe quality of the black line drawing – was so fluid. the over-all concept – so ruff.
\nand, mysterious. the narrative was mysterious – but in that way, that doesn’t need . . answers !!
\nand, the background.
\nthe background – just took off, visually.
\nthe scribble scrabble, the free-ness, the yellow ‘mess’ of the void vs. the bold fluid, & strongly directed subject lines – it all <\/strong>bounced.
\nthis sticker, went from street art – to just ART, for me, me almost instantaneously.
\nvery futuristic child \/ make the best of urban ‘crisis’- and come up: survival.<\/p>\n

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\nMURRZ CAT STICKER, 2015<\/p>\n

this one prob would have taken me a little longer to get into, if I hadn’t seen the above one – first.
\nwhat started to clue me in – was realizing it was a . . two-part-er !!
\nactually two . . partners-in-crime.
\nthe ‘sister’ images – split apart into separate stickers at the center line – the ‘mouth’, lol.
\nit worked so well, both ways. great ‘design’ puzzle element.
\ngreat bold lines in totality. same rapid fluidity.
\ngreat future vision, re: the joined-at-the mouth, maybe ‘mutated’ kitty – and then, that . .. ‘Mad Max’ crossed-out eyeball. lordy !!
\nand then, that . . the worried look, on the other not so .. matching kitty. the sweet, but maybe wounded, vulnerable expression of that OTHER pair of eyeballs. so much story-telling go-ing on !!
\ntalk about talk about: check out that non-working eye, and then circle round !!
\nkind of like, one of those classic vintage Americana black nanny dolls, where one side is the white woman doll, and lift up her skirt – and there is the black woman doll – !!
\nand oh, the stories they<\/strong> can tell.<\/p>\n

and, yeah. I of course, I also liked<\/strong> that small bit of pink & yellow & blue . . scribble scrabble.
\nyou know, how I like details, that you know – fall off . . . !!
\ninto the . . . VOID !!
\nfree fall, free form, down the rabbit hole.
\nmini . . abstract expressionism. the unknown. the wide open. spaces.
\nnarrative & lyric forces – the drive to have answers. move over !!
\nbio-human at work. and, gestural is where it’s – at.<\/p>\n

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PHOTOS & SCAN: NANCY SMITH<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MURRZ \/ @MURRZ . . . on the Lower East Side, NYC. NOV 14, 2015 PHOTO: NANCY SMITH MURRZ . . is one of the co-curators, along with ZROPRO \/ @ZEROPRODUCTIVITY . . . of the big BOUNDLESS BROOKLYN & GRUMPY BERT . . ‘TAT IT UP’ show, opening to-nite – JAN 8, 2016 \/ […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27499"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27499"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27527,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27499\/revisions\/27527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}