Russell Aldo Murray

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Résumé Russell Aldo Murray b.1950

               

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 Education

2002   Saint Peters College, Education, Jersey City, NJ

            1974   BA Fine Art Rutgers, The State University, Newark NJ

       1968-69   Studied Industrial Design, Parson School of Design, NYC

Solo Exhibitions

2007   Russell A. Murray: “Ambiguous Sensations”, curated by Michelle Talibah, New Door Gallery, Baltimore, MD

1997      Russell A. Murray: PrayerScape and Other Works, curated by Suzanne Gyorgy, Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ

1995       Phoenix Series: Works on Paper, Bellevue Gallery, Trenton, NJ, curated by

            Lawrence M. Hilton 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2007      Contemporary Alternatives, Kislac Building, Newark, NJ

2007      Sanctuary, Rupert Ravens Contemporary, Newark, NJ

2006      Newark, Between Us, curated by Rupert Ravens, Newark, NJ

2005   E essentials, New Door Creative Gallery, Baltimore MD

2005   Transcribing a Moment of Struggle, City Without Walls Galler Newark, NJ

         2004   Transcultural New Jersey, Mason Gross Galleries, New Brunswick, NJ

         2004   PrayerScape, James E. Lewis Museum, Baltimore Maryland

2004   Glimpses into America: Cape May County

         2003   Glimpses into America: Mercer County College

         2003   Six Men in Visual Dialog: Iandor Gallery, curated by Tarin Fuller, Newark, NJ

                    Group Show: Rush Gallery, curated by Quashelle Curtis

                    Generations: Morris County Municipal Building, Morristown, NJ

                    Summer Salon: Iandor Gallery curated by Tarin Fuller, Newark, NJ    

         2002   Works on Paper:  Iandor Gallery of Contemporary Art:         

         2001   Equinox, Iandor Gallery, Newark, New Jersey, curator Ian Fuller

2000       Little Houses: The Morris Museum, Morristown NJ, curated by Margery Reich

2000       Re-collaboration: James E. Lewis Museum, Baltimore Maryland                       

            1999   This is Why We Sing: Morris County, NJ

            1987    Metro Show, City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, N

1997      Group Exhibition: The African-American Museum of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH

            1992   Black History Month: Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Jerse

1995   Group Exhibition: AT&T, curated by Lawrence Hilton

            1990   Group Exhibition: curated by Willie Cole, Lum Lane Gallery, Newark, NJ

1983      Emerging and Established: The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ, curated

           by Fern Thurlow’, Gladys Barker Grauer and Eleta J. Caldwell

1974   Tweed Gallery, Plainfield, NJ

1974   National Conference of Artists Exhibition:  Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ

1972   Group Exhibition: Aardvark Gallery, Newark, NJ, curated  by Glady Barker 

           Grauer

             

Selected Awards and Prizes

 

            2003    Nominee, Joan Mitchell Foundation

2002    Geraldine Dodge Foundation: Folk Art in the School Project, Morris County

            2000    New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship for Sculpture

            2001    Municipality of Morris award for Recycling material into art

            1997    New Jersey Links, Legend in Arts award

            1997    Proclamation from the Governor of New Jersey

            1985    New Jersey Outstanding Arts Educator Award

            1984    New Jersey University of Medicine and Dentistry Art Award

            1981    Black Women in Visual Perspective, City Without Walls Gallery

                       

 

Commissions/Permanent Collections

 

            2007    John Thompson Collection, IN.

            2005    University of Delaware, Paul Jones Collection

2004        James E. Lewis Museum,  Baltimore, MA, PrayerScape

2004    University of Delaware, PrayerScape

2001        Marriot Hotels, Trenton, New Jersey, Tribute to Milt Hinton(The Judge)

2002        Morris Museum, Microwave Tree House, Outdoor Sculpture

2003        James E. Lewis Museum,  Baltimore, MA, Everything Under the Sun

2003    African-American Museum of Art, Cleveland OH., Print, Sweet Potato Pie

           

Teaching and Administration

 

2001-Present  Newark Board of Ed., West Side High School, Newark, NJ certified Art                        Teacher 

            2004   Rutgers Sculpture Workshop, Paul Robeson Gallery

            2004   Cape May Art Center, Cape May New Jersey, Sculpture and Painting Workshop

            2003   Out Door Sculpture Project, Alexander Hamilton School, Morris County

                       Out Door Sculpture Project, Thomas Jefferson School School, Morris County

                       Folk Art Workshop, Thomas Jefferson School, Morris County

1990-Present  Co-founder/ curator, Art in the Atrium, Inc. non-profit arts organization

       2000-03   Gladys Hillman Jones School, Newark, NJ

           

            2003   Artist in Residence, Thomas Jefferson School Morristown, NJ

                       Teachers Workshop, Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ

            2002   City of Trenton Outdoor Summer Sculpture Project/ Artist in Residence

            2001   Morris Museum, Hot Fluffy Duffy Children’s Found Object Sculpture Art Workshop

            2000   Artist in Residence, Normandy School, Morristown, NJ

       1979-81   West Caldwell Vocational and Technical School, NJ

 

Selected Curated Exhibitions

 

            2004    Red Velvet Cake: An Exhibition of African American Art

            2003    Gladys Barker Grauer: Paul Robeson Gallery, Newark, NJ

                        Selected Prints and Sculpture: A Conversation with Elizabeth Catlett: Morris

                        Museum

                        A Day in the Life of Newark: Newark Board of Education

                        Sweet Potato Pie, Morris County Municipal Building

            1995    New Jersey Arts Annual, Morris Museum, co-curator

Selected Media Coverage

2004     Piece of Cake-Red Velvet Cake, Daily Record, NJ by Marion Fuller    

         2003     Conversation with Elizabeth Catlett: WKISS 98.7 FM

                      Day In the Life of Newark: The Star ledger

                      Day in the Life of Newark, Channel 23

                      Arts and Leisure, Daily Record, by Marion Fuller

1997     Mapplethorpe in Morristown, Ch.12, New Jersey

         1997     Artist Refuses to Censor Works, The Star Ledger

         1983     CH13, African American History/Artist Profile: Russell Murray

 

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