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February Issue 2003
Transylvania County Arts Council in Brevard, NC, Offers Conversation with Sculptor and Educator Tim Murry
Tim Murray is responsible for creating the second-largest modern, permanent, outdoor, metal sculpture in Western North Carolina. The 13 feet x 18 feet wide x 27 foot long aluminum piece Mountain Rhythms can be seen on the edge of the Brevard College campus when one drives south into downtown Brevard. What inspired Murray to create such a challenging work of art? Find out when the Transylvania County Arts Council presents an evening conversation with Tim Murray on Thur., Feb. 20, 2003 at 7pm, at the Community Arts Center in Brevard, NC.
Murray and former Arts Council Director Jinks Ramsey will share their conversation with the audience to provide an inside look at his life-long experiences in the arts. A few slides will highlight significant moments in Murray's career, while a number of his sculptural pieces also will be on display.
"My work has become (through drawing and making three-dimensional objects) a search for a personal order," says Murray. "At times, the creations become very decorative because of my involvement with the craftsmanship. Yet it seems in most cases they are 3-D flow-charts of mundane occurrences in my everyday life, thus reflecting a life-sized language of fantasy, memories of current situations, which I feel I need to share with others. Once these ideas are shared with others my quest begins again."
Murray has nurtured the local arts community for more than 35 years while teaching at Brevard College. As the Edward Seese Distinguished Service Professor of Art, he instructs a number of classes. This year, the local arts community is celebrating his life-long achievement in the arts with the retrospective exhibition Changing Perspectives 1960-2003, sponsored by friends of Tim Murray and Brevard College.
Born in Reading, England, Murray arrived in the United States in 1948 and began schooling in Winston Salem. His education continued at Mars Hill College, where he studied art and engineering, and at UNC-Chapel Hill where he earned his degrees in Art. His educational pursuits have also brought him to England, Holland, Montana, Knoxville, Clemson and most recently to Marshall, NC, for a bowl and spoon carving workshop at the Country Workshop.
Murray has actively exhibited in the Southeast since his days as a student in Chapel Hill. His most recent exhibitions include Small Sculpture, a traveling show for Tri-State Sculpture visiting various sites in the US and Europe; Current Works from Western North Carolina, a two-person show at the Fine Arts Center at Marietta College, in Marietta, OH; and The Box, a national invitational show at the Images Friedman Gallery in Louisville, KY. His work also has been exhibited at the Upstairs Gallery in Tryon, the Greenhill Center Gallery in Greensboro, the Asheville Art Museum and Broadway Arts Gallery in Asheville, The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Arts in Winston Salem, and at a number of other galleries, arts centers, colleges and art festivals across the US.
Murray has served as a visiting artist at Casper College in Wyoming, Cleveland State University, UNC-Chapel Hill, Clemson University and Indiana State University. He has taught workshops on plasma cutting and sculpture-wood lamination for the International Sculpture Center Conference at the SSS Steel Corporation in Huston, TX, and at the Philadelphia Academy of Art, respectively. Last summer he received a grant from the NC Arts Council to be a visiting artist at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT. Murray also lectures extensively throughout the Southeast, sharing his knowledge of wood and metal sculpting, and also printmaking.
ArtSpeak is part of the Transylvania County Arts Council's Wine and Wisdom adult education program. Conversations takes place on the third Thur. of the month, at the Transylvania Community Arts Center, located at 321 South Caldwell Street, Brevard, NC. For more information call the Transylvania County Arts Council at 828/884-2787.
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