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Burton Wasserman
Art Critic, NJ "Jo Owens Murray has an uncanny knack for joining objective awareness with subjective impulses in order to shape artworks rich with sensitive human feeling and significant social commentary. She has developed an idiom entirely her own. Again and again, Murray breathes fresh, new life into the miscellaneous bits and pieces that emerge as the combined exterior appearnance of her sculpture. In the manner of Louis Nevelson and Pablo Picasso, who transformed detritus found on the street into art, she also recycles what may seem to be grotesque trash into ecstatic treasure." (Read more) |
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Graziella Marchicelli, Ph.D
Fine Arts Curator, The Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art
"Murray's assemblage sculptures, which she calls "the girls", are unique and exceptional examples of contemporary Surrealism, and her application of beads and jewels adhered to the mannequins is a pioneering technique. Her sculptures are heavily encrusted with large, brightly colored beads, buttons, mirrors, costume jewelry, plastic flowers, feathers, bridal veils and birdcases." (Read more) |