EVERYBODY KNOWS... Elizabeth Murray
Producer and Director: Kristi Zea
"Elizabeth Murray is one of the most dynamic American painters of the end of the twentieth and the beginning of the twenty-first century, and one of the hardest to assimilate."
Robert Storr, Curator of Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Modern Art (2005); Curator of the Venice Biennale (2007); Dean, Yale University School of Art (2007).
Through interviews with her family, friends, other artists and art critics, this hour-long documentary celebrates the life and work of American painter Elizabeth Murray (1940-2007).
Despite being one of only five women to be honored with a MoMA retrospective and included in the 2007 Venice Biennale as well as several Whitney Biennials, her work has yet to be incorporated into the vernacular of the contemporary art world. Many admit that this is because of the male-dominated art scene, and insist that she is a highly influential "artist's artist."
This film includes powerful moments showing Elizabeth at work, her two memorial services as well as intimate interviews with MoMA President Emeritus Agnes Gund, Director of Pace Wildenstein Arnold Glimcher as well as artist luminaries such as Chuck Close and Joel Shapiro.
Bio:
Born in New York City, Kristi Zea has been acclaimed for her work as a production designer, costume designer, and producer of major feature films. Zea Production designed Martin Scorsese's The Departed, Sam Mendes' Revolutionary Road, Neil Jordan's The Brave One, Jonathan Demme's Manchurian Candidate, as well as a number of major films of the '80s and '90s, including Jonathan Demme's Beloved (1998), Academy Award Winner Silence of the Lambs (1991), Philadelphia (1993), Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas (1990) and New York Stories (1989). She also produced James L. Brooks' As Good As It Gets (1997). She directed the Ace Award Nominated "Domestic Dilemma" for the HBO Series Women and Men 2 (1990).
