"Murray Zimiles: Recent Paintings"
Artscope July/August 2013
Andre van der Wende
Murray Zimiles' landscape paintings at the Berta Walker Gallery appear to exist outside of time and place, a metaphysical space cloisted within a mythology of rolling fields, roaming animals and a fractured, pulsing light...
Essay by Giles Auty, National Art
Correspondant for "The Australian."
Writing about Murray Zimiles' art has led me to an unsuspected realisation about myself. While I have never experienced difficulty in imagining what it would be like to be involved actively in a war, my imagination has baulked previously at picturing myself as being faced with an enemy hell-bent on the destruction of my entire race.
Zones of Mute Witness, An essay by Johanna Drucker,
Professor of Art History, University of Virginia, about the Animal Paintings.
There is a muteness imaged in Murray Zimiles' new cycle of animal paintings, a silent witnessing of the fundamental dramas of survival that is charged with dilemmas of accountability and testimony.
Eliazbeth Wix, Review in "New York Newsday"
(Manhattan and Long Island Editions) Feb. 12, 1993
The Holocaust casts a long dark shadow over the 20th Century and never more so than now when people are again being persecuted and killed for their faith. Man’s inhumanity to man has long been a subject for both painting and literature...
It could be said that the Holocaust is too facile a subject for art, that it is inherently powerful, and that almost any artwork dealing with it will trigger the emotions. But people have a way of forgetting and sometimes need images to remind them of the past.