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Margaret
Stanton Murray
San Jose State University, San Jose, California
Margaret Stanton Murray
is completing an M.F.A. degree in Photography at San Jose State University,
where she has been a teaching associate for
two years, teaching Color Theory and Beginning Photography. She received
her undergraduate degree in Art Education and a M.A. in Painting at San
Jose State University. Stanton Murray has taught art on community
college and high school levels. She has exhibited in local, regional
and national exhibitions including the San Jose Museum of Art, Monterey
Peninsula Museum of Art, The Art Museum of Santa Cruz County, San Jose
Institute of Contemporary Art and A.I.R. Gallery in New York City. Most
recently her work was exhibited in Confront:
Reframing Women's Health, at the New Works Gallery, University
of Illinois at Chicago. This exhibition was reviewed in the New
Art Examiner, January, 93' issue. A continuing body of work
for Stanton Murray, has been in the form of fabricating constructions to
be photographed, which have been concerned with human relationships and
cultural myths. Currently, Margaret is working with installations
focused on women's issues, specifically centered around breast cancer.
The health, political and personal aspects of breast cancer are addressed
in these installations which include life size figure murals and large
display blocks of text. |
