"Rescue Vehicles honors the dogged persistence of human effort. Murrow’s figures celebrate the real people who preserve our knowledge, culture, and fragile ecosystems not because they are certain of success but because the work must continue. They move forward out of necessity, improvising with whatever means remain. Murrow finds dignity in that obstinacy, in the way we keep inventing and trying even when the outcome is unclear. However absurd their devices, his rescuers move with conviction, sustained by the hope that motion itself, however faltering, might be enough to carry something precious through the storm."

 

— from an essay written by Leanne Sacramone

Senior Curator at Foundation Cartier pour l'art contemporain

Bibliopegists
2025
Graphite on paper
48"x48"
Apicultural
2025
Graphite on paper
62"x62"
Hydrologist
2025
Graphite on paper
36"x36"
Agriculturalists
2025
Graphite on paper
36"x36"
Cetologist
2025
Graphite on paper
34"x40"
Novelist
2025
Graphite on paper
16"x12"
Morphologist
2025
Graphite on paper
16"x12"
Luthier
2025
Graphite on paper
48"x36"
Arborist
2025
Graphite on paper
36"x20"
Aquarist
2025
Graphite on paper
16"x12
Alchemist
2025
Graphite on paper
16"x12"
Acoustician
2025
Graphite on paper
36"x20"
Menders
2025
Graphite on paper
40"x140"

Install view at Les Filles du Calvaire

photography by Nicolas Brasseur

Install view at Les Filles du Calvaire

photography by Nicolas Brasseur

Install view at Les Filles du Calvaire

photography by Nicolas Brasseur

Install view at Les Filles du Calvaire

photography by Nicolas Brasseur

Install view at Les Filles du Calvaire

photography by Nicolas Brasseur

Install view at Les Filles du Calvaire

photography by Nicolas Brasseur

Install view at Les Filles du Calvaire

photography by Nicolas Brasseur

Artwork: Murrow in collaboration with Julia Featheringill Photography

Install image by Nicolas Brasseur