Agnes Murray - Visual Arts
UPCOMING:
The Nature of Building: Artist's Books - Exhibit at Kentler International Drawing Space, curated by Maddy Rosenberg, CENTRAL BOOKING
An artist’s book exhibition built around the Sandstone Steps with artist’s book selections from the Kentler Flatfiles.
New York: November 7th – December 13th, 2026
Opening Reception: November 7th, 4 – 6 pm
Curator and Artists’ Talk: November 21st, 4 – 6 pm
Poetry Reading and Closing/Holiday Party: Sunday, December 13, 3 – 5 pm
Kentler International Drawing Space, 353 Van Brunt Street, RED HOOK, Brooklyn, NY 11231
The Nature of Building: Artist's Books
Kentler International Drawing Space, Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY
Curator Maddy Rosenberg
An artist’s book exhibition built around the Sandstone Steps with artist’s book selections from the Kentler Flatfiles.
New York: November 7th – December 13th, 2026
Opening Reception: November 7th, 4 – 6 pm
Curator and Artists’ Talk: November 21st, 4 – 6 pm
Poetry Reading and Closing/Holiday Party: Sunday, December 13, 3 – 5 pm
The Sandstone Steps project was conceived as a transatlantic collaboration between Maddy Rosenberg (CENTRAL BOOKING) and Hugh Bryden (Roncadora Press), inspired by the story of the prized Corsehill sandstone from Annan, Scotland and its journey to New York. It is a story of commerce, migration, but most of all art and the sometimes grandiose visions behind the making. Though the often repeated story of local Scottish folklore that the sandstone was transported as ballast from the port of Annan to form part of the base of the Statue of Liberty has been laid to rest, it turns out the reality is much more interesting. Due to its particular qualities when exposed to the air of hardening slowly but feeling like polished wood once hardened, the Corsehiil sandstone was used externally for fine details in the brownstones in New York City. It would also be used extensively in the construction of the grand Great Western Staircase, also known as the Million Dollar Staircase due to its eventual cost, in the New York State Capitol building in Albany.
The Visual Read
Gracefield Arts Centre, Dumfries, Scotland, UK
Saturday, May 18 to Saturday, June 29, 2024
Opening Reception: Saturday, May 18, 2 to 4 pm
Though based in New York City, CENTRAL BOOKING is an international artist-run gallery specializing in the book as art, art and science projects and collaborations with cultural institutions. CENTRAL BOOKING focuses on the breadth and depth of the book works of the more than 30 plus of our distinguished artists who live, work and are from New York. The historical structure of the Gracefield Arts Centre provides the ideal venue to showcase the more traditional idea of the artist’s book as a hand held object, along with the expansion of it through sculptural installations: works that utilize the walls, floors, ceilings, and even staircases. Materials to explore include paper, but go well beyond an image on a flat surface; many of these artists approach the book as the sculptural object it is, therefore incorporating metal, stone and digital elements into their work. In appreciation of the Scottish contribution of sandstone to the essence of architectural New York, some of the artists draw their inspiration from the subject, others deal with ecology and the waters that surround us, still others those of social and political issues, as do some draw you in with texture, color and subtle cuts. With the exhibition, we intend to highlight the full scope of what book art is in the contemporary world through the eyes of New York artists.
Curator: Maddy Rosenberg
Plant Cure/Brooklyn
CENTRAL BOOKING in collaboration with Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
Curated by Maddy Rosenberg
Exhibition at Humanities Gallery, LIU Brooklyn, 1 University Plaza, Brooklyn, NY 11201
September 3 - December 13, 2019
Opening Reception, Wednesday, September 4, 2019, 6 - 8 pm
Plant Cure project continuing with group exhibit of medicinal plant-themed work. Five artists, who were artists in residence at Brooklyn Botanic Garden in the spring of 2019 are joined by additional artists working with the them of medicinal plants. Exhibit includes four watercolors and two ceramic sculptures, which were inspired by research during the Brooklyn Botanic Garden residency.
Exhibition at the Conservatory Gallery, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 990 Washington Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11225
March 3 - November 15, 2020. Conservatory Gallery closed in March 2020 and reopened September 2021.
Exhibit extended through March 27, 2022.
Opening Reception and "Plants as Healers," Art &Science Roundtable, Tuesday, March 3, 2020, 6 - 7:30 pm
The five artists in residence at Brooklyn Botanic Garden exhibit work inspired by research in the library and garden collections. Exhibit includes four watercolors and two ceramic sculptures, which were inspired by research during the Brooklyn Botanic Garden residency.
Agnes Murray, Pelargonium: Summer Geraniums, (diptych), 2014, watercolor on chine collé paper, mounted on BFK Rives paper, 20 x 70 inches
Exhibited in Plant Cure at Central Booking, L.E.S. along with other watercolors.
Plant Cure
CENTRAL BOOKING in collaboration with the New York Academy of Medicine.
September 6 - October 29, 2017
Opening reception: Wednesday, September 6, 6 - 8 pm.
Group exhibition of medicinal plant-themed work includes Pelargonium: Summer Geraniums (above) and Pelargonium – Geranium Portfolio, 2017, a handmade portfolio for watercolors and text, 15 x 20 inches.
Building
September 7 - November 2, 2014
Curator Maddy Rosenberg
An architecture-themed exhibit.
Two of my Assisi lithographs are included in this group show.
Haber Space at Central Booking Art Space, 21 Ludlow Street (LES), New York, NY 10002
347-731-6559
Installation of Building exhibit with Assisi II, lithograph diptych, 30 x 44 inches.
Installation of Building exhibit with Assisi III, lithograph diptych, 30 x 44 inches.
Dig
February 12 – April 5, 2015
Curator Maddy Rosenberg
An archaeology-themed exhibit.
One of my Approaching Slains Castle monotypes is
included in this group show.
Opening reception Thursday, February 12, 2015
Haber Space at Central Booking Art Space,
21 Ludlow Street (LES), New York, NY 10002
347-731-6559
Thursday - Sunday, 12 noon - 6 pm
F train to East Broadway
