MURRAY, R. Holland (1939)

R. Holland Murray graduated from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. He began teaching visual arts at Concordia University in 1975, and his work has been presented in Canada and the United States. He creates stained-wood sculptures in which the opposing legacies of African American culture and Western European Culture come face to face. The surfaces of these pieces, whether smooth and polished or sharp and bearing metal protrusions, play upon both attraction and repulsion.