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Maura McGurk Selected as climate/gallery Featured Artist
Lament, Acrylic/Mixed media on board, 5" x 5", In private collection Maura McGurk was chosen as a Featured Artist of climate/gallery based on submission of her painting Lament. This painting was part...
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Artist’s Statement: Gay Bullying
My current abstract paintings are inspired by the suicides of several teenaged boys in fall 2010, who were bullied for being gay. The multi-layered paintings use a colorful but unsettling palette of...
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A Hard Day’s Work
Yesterday was a good day. I got up early and got dressed pretty quickly, because I wanted to hurry in and get going on a painting that had been unfinished for too long. I worked on it all day, pushing...
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New Anti-Gay Bullying Painting
Before and After, Acrylic/Mixed media on panel, 24" x 24", $1500 This painting, part of my series against gay bullying, is called Before and After. Tyler Clementi and the other teens who have committed...
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July is for Patriotism, and for Giving Back, Says Artist
July is shaping up to be a charitable month for Maura McGurk; she will donate 10% of proceeds from her art exhibition about anti-gay bullying to The It Gets Better Project, and donate an original...
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A Big Week
In one week recently, four of my paintings found lovely new homes. My portrait of Abe Lincoln (read more about its backstory here) now hangs above the desk of a businesswoman from Brooklyn. In Secret...
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365 Days of Art: April 26 – Helen Frankenthaler Exhibition Opens at Andre...
Helen Frankenthaler, Eve, 75" x 50", acrylic on paper April 26, 1990 Frankenthaler: Paintings on Paper opens at André Emmerich Gallery. Helen Frankenthaler loved paper since she was a child, and worked...
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Art Opening at Pimienta Bistro & Bar
Seen from the mirror above Pimienta’s bar, the artist hangs the show. I’m very pleased to have been invited by Chef Blanca Rodriguez to show about 15 of my paintings at Pimienta Bistro & Bar in...
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