Ethan Murrow

Today is my lucky day. I stumbled across a genius totally by chance.

I was researching Emily Prince, and somewhere gave the name of hyper-realistEd Loftus. I googled him, and under an image search came a beautiful drawing. I clicked on the link, only to find it wasn't Ed Loftus, but a man called Ethan Murrow.

Ethan Murrow, "Off of Gaspé, ready to dive for the elusive whale", graphite on paper 60" x 96", 2007.

Murrow works with his wife, Vita Weinstein. Together they create 'mockumentary' style short films, mainly on the subject of stories of perserverance and obsession- note, Dust Miners, Doomed Explorer, Pinto Brother Pilots. Murrow then draws large scale graphite works from stills of the films.

In exhibition, it would appear that there is a collection of the drawings, projections of the films, and different artefacts relating to the stories.

I don't feel I know enough yet to properly explain the work, but Ethan Murrow's website is

http://www.bigpaperairplane.com/

You can watch some of the films there, and there are some great press reviews which explain what Murrow's installations are like.

There is also a good interview with Murrow on some of his influences and his work processes at

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kimberly-brooks/the-nudist-the-chemist-an_b_91633.html

AMAZING