"I use a lot of repetition. And it becomes a filmic way of talking because as you put the same image after the other, even though it’s the exact identical image, everyone sees something changing from one image to the next."
"Open Drawer" (1998)
"Open Drawer," 1998
Oil on canvas, 112 x 108 inches
Photo by Ellen Page Wilson
Courtesy The Pace Gallery, New York
Oil on canvas, 112 x 108 inches
Photo by Ellen Page Wilson
Courtesy The Pace Gallery, New York
"Helen Vendler, an expert on Shakespeare’s sonnets, writes about what Shakespeare reveals and what he conceals. I think that art, all art, does that. That’s what the artist’s role is. You don’t always know what you’re revealing, and you don’t always know what you are concealing, until you get it out there, and then you make your decisions. And there, that’s a decision- when I laugh at something. I know I want it to be there. It becomes intent."
- Elizabeth Murray
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