Murray Guy was a contemporary
art gallery
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specializing in emerging and mid-career
contemporary art
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ists. Founded by Margaret Murray and Janice Guy in 1998, the gallery was located in the
Chelsea, Manhattan
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gallery district at 453 West 17th Street.
It closed in early 2017 after eighteen years in business.
The gallery covered contemporary
photography
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,
video
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,
film
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,
sculpture
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, and
painting
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.
Founders
Margaret Murray and Janice Guy. Janice Guy (born 1953 in London, UK) a photographer, produced much of her work while studying with
Klaus Rinke and
Bernd and Hilla Becher at the
Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in
Düsseldorf
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, Germany, during the 1970s.. Guy abandoned art-making in the early 1980s, however her photographs re-emerged in 2007 and have been shown in solo exhibitions at
White Columns, New York (2008), The Apartment, Vancouver (2008 and 2013),
Cleopatra's, New York (2015) and
Higher Pictures, New York (2019).
Artists
Among the artists who exhibited at Murray Guy were the following:
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Matthew Buckingham.
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Leidy Churchman
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Moyra Davey"Moyra Davey at Murray Guy." Contemporary Art Daily.
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* Matthew Higgs["Nashashibi/Skaer at Murray Guy New York."](_blank)
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* Barbara Probst
References
External links
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Year of establishment missing
Contemporary art galleries in the United States
Defunct art museums and galleries in Manhattan
Culture of Manhattan
1998 establishments in New York City
2017 disestablishments in New York (state)
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