Good visit to Chelsea

ok, I've got a minute to post some pics. Have waited a long time to see Elizabeth Murray's work in person, she shows at Pace Wildenstein (this time in Chelsea). She's known for her unconventionally stretched canvases, crazy composition, bright colors, and cartoonish imagery. In pictures all her edges look clean, but a lot of them a really ragged, the sides show and are unpainted, and she "paints and paints" until it gets pretty goopy in some areas. I wonder why she doesn't give up the pretentions of canvas and just paint on wood- I think she might feel then like she is decorating a sculpture, though. Still, the overall effect is pretty amazing. There were also some smaller works, like sketches that bore some close similarities with Red Grooms.