Gwynn Murrill

Gwynn Murrill’s life-sized, bronze sculptures depict regal animals such as horses, bears, coyotes, and eagles. The artist stylizes her subjects into purified forms, emphasizing primal characteristics and transmogrifying each animal’s unique spirit. Murrill simultaneously distinguishes, yet obscures, by sculpting figures that are at once based in realism, as well as being fiercely enigmatic. Murrill expertly transforms such heavy and static material as bronze, into figures stirred with subtle movement and dynamic energy. A few of many of Murrill’s accolades include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Prix di Roma Fellowship, and a Purchase Award from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

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