D&S #5 - Jesse Murry

This week we discuss the work of the fabulous, unsung painter, poet, critic, and theorist Jesse Murry. Though Murry died of AIDS-related complications in 1993 and faded into relative obscurity, his work is getting a second life through a recent exhibition at David Zwirner in NYC and the publication of Painting is a Supreme Fiction: Writings by Jesse Murry, 1980-1993 by Soberscove Press. Murry's deceptively simple abstract paintings and lucid critical writing allow us to ask what queerness loo...