| NEW YORK, CRITICS' PICKS MUNRO GALLOWAY MURRAY GUY GALLERY 453 West 17th Street May 13 - June 17 Every day for the past year Munro Galloway has painted a picture, recording something of the world in front of him. He might have been in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on an interstate in Montana, or making his way through the Cascade Mountains, but, regardless, out came a hazy, lush, colorful image in oil on gessoed paper: starry night skies, empty lots, lazy green fields, lounging friends, a lone girl. The resulting series, titled "Green River" after the terminus point of Lewis and Clark's search for the Northwest Passage, fuses calendar, travelogue, and storyboard. More than the sum of its parts—save for the odd painting so right it could hang on its own—"Green River" excites by not insisting on any one method of viewing. Though it's easy enough to follow a chronological reading of the series, which is hung in an even grid on three adjacent walls, it is far more enticing to let the eye wander where it may across the intersecting colors, forms, and storylines present and waiting to be discovered. —Lori Waxman |
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| Green River (installation view) , 2006 |