Reviews & Articles
“The Unabashedly Modern Murray Zimiles”
Jennifer B. Calder
UnTACKED, November/December 2017
In his new series of paintings, the artist tackles the traditional sport of foxhunting, radically reimagining the subject matter
Murray Zimiles: Recent Paintings"
Andre van der Wende
Artscope, July/August 2013
Murray Zimiles' landscape paintings at the Berta Walker Gallery appear to exist outside of time and place, a metaphysical space cloistered within a mythology of rolling fields, roaming animals and a fractured, pulsing light...
William Zimmer, "Paintings Whose Figures Tell Tales"
Review in The New York Times
Sunday, November 23, 2003
In the 1960's when highly refined abstract painting was in vogue, Murray Zimiles began making narrative figurative paintings...
“Memories and Metaphors. The Moving Art of Murray Zimiles”
Essay by Giles Auty, National Art Correspondent for "The Australian."
November 1997
Writing about Murray Zimiles' art has led me to an unsuspected realization 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 about the Animal Paintings by Johanna Drucker, Professor of Art History, UCLA
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...
Norine Dworkin, Review in "ARTnews",
April 1992
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.