Anna Valentina Murch Explained

Anna Valentina Murch
Birth Date:7 December 1948
Birth Place:Dumbarton, Scotland
Death Date:26 March 2014
Death Place:San Francisco, California
Nationality:British
Occupation:Artist

Anna Valentina Murch (7 December 1948  - 26 March 2014) was a British artist who was based in San Francisco. She was known for her award-winning public art installations.

Early life and education

Anna Valentina Murch was born in Dumbarton, Scotland, as the only child of Norman Robbins Murch and Valentina Gordikova Murch. Her father, a naval commander, established a charity for women and children following his retirement. Murch's mother, originally from St. Petersburg, met her husband in Shanghai during World War II. Subsequently, Murch's mother became an actress in London and played the role of Annushka in a film adaptation of Anna Karenina (1948), which was released in the same year as Murch's birth.[1]

Murch was raised in London.[2] She attended Croydon College of Art and earned degrees from the University of Leicester and the Royal College of Art in London (1973). She also did graduate work at the Architectural Association in London (1974-1974).[3]

Career

In 1976, Murch moved to San Francisco and had a live-work studio at Project Artaud. From 1983 to 1992, she taught at various institutions, including the San Francisco Art Institute and at the University of California, Berkeley. She began teaching at Mills College in 1992, and she held the Joan Danforth Chair of Studio Art there from 2005 to 2007.[4] [5] In 1990, she had a residency at the Exploratorium.Murch's work often involved large urban spaces, stations, plazas, bridges, and installations that created plays of light, water, and sound.[6] In Miami, she designed Water Scores, a public plaza with inclined waterfalls. She was part of a team that was commissioned to help with the design of the St. Louis Metro. The design recycled 160,000 pounds of colored glass to "create a shifting, ephemeral light show".[7] One of her last designs was Archipelago, a courtyard for the trauma center at San Francisco General Hospital.

In 2010, Murch gave an oral history interview to the Archives of American Art.

Notable works

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Personal life

In 1988, Murch married fellow environmental artist Doug Hollis. She died in San Francisco in 2014, aged 65 years, from cancer.[20]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Oral history interview with Anna Valentina Murch, 2010 May 21-22. Riedel. Mija. Archives of American Art. en. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20121111091926/http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-anna-valentina-murch-15824 . 2012-11-11 . 2020-05-16.
  2. Web site: Anna Valentina Murch - teacher created oases of art. Guthrie. Julian. 2014-03-29. SFGate. 2020-05-16.
  3. Book: Johnstone . Mark . Epicenter: San Francisco Bay Area Art Now . Aboud Holzman . Leslie . Chronicle Books . 2002 . 0-8118-3541-3 . 166–171 . English . Anna Valentina Murch.
  4. Web site: Anna Valentina Murch - Sculptures and Art. Wescover. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20200924073356/https://www.wescover.com/creator/anna-valentina-murch . 2020-09-24 . 2020-05-16.
  5. Web site: Anna Valentina Murch: Never Forgotten. Nussbaum. Ari. April 29, 2014. The Campanil. en-US. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20190704053051/http://www.thecampanil.com/mills-remembers-anna-valentina-murch/ . 2019-07-04 . 2020-05-16.
  6. Web site: Artist Collection: Anna Valentina Murch. ArtsWA. en-US. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20200413015613/https://www.arts.wa.gov/artist-collection/ . 2020-04-13 . 2020-05-16.
  7. Book: University of California Press. 978-0-520-23066-8. Fuller. Diana Burgess. Salvioni. Daniela. Art, Women, California 1950-2000: Parallels and Intersections. 2002. registration.
  8. Web site: Waterscape. City of San Jose. 2020-05-16.
  9. Web site: Skytones. Anna Valentina Murch. 24 April 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20160617110206/http://annavalentinamurch.com/proj2/proj2.html. 17 June 2016. dead.
  10. Web site: Remembering Anna Valentina Murch. Callahan. Anna. 2014-04-01. 4Culture. en-US. 2020-05-16.
  11. Web site: Confluences. 2019-05-15. Americans for the Arts. en. 2020-05-16.
  12. Web site: River Wrap: Anna Valentina Murch and City of Portland and Multnomah County Public Art Collection courtesy of the Regional Arts & Culture Council. CultureNOW. 2020-05-16.
  13. Web site: Oasis (video) - Douglas Hollis and Anna Valentina Murch. Google Arts & Culture. en. 2020-05-16.
  14. https://charlottenc.gov/cats/transit-planning/art-in-transit/completed-projects/Pages/ble-9th-street-station.aspx BLE 9th Street Station
  15. Web site: Anna Valentina Murch, Archipelago, 2015; Stainless steel, granite and LED lights (City Agency : San Francisco General Hospital : Acute Care Unit : Plaza).. www.sfgov.org.
  16. Web site: Public Art and Architecture from Around the World. www.artandarchitecture-sf.com. 28 August 2023. 11 August 2017.
  17. News: Wilson. MoLin. 1985-07-12. Engaging artist invites viewers to join her on higher ground. 39. The Santa Fe New Mexican. 2020-05-16. Newspapers.com.
  18. News: Tipton. Virgil. 1993-05-03. Glass Brightens Tunnel 'Vision'. 3. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. 2020-05-16. Newspapers.com.
  19. Web site: San Francisco Arts Commission - Anna Valentina Murch . 2023-03-29 . kiosk.sfartscommission.org.
  20. Web site: Mills professor Anna Valentina Murch dies at age 65. Nussbaum. Ari. April 4, 2014. The Campanil. en-US. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20201020163845/http://www.thecampanil.com/art-professor-anna-valentina-murch-dies-at-age-65/ . 2020-10-20 . 2020-05-16.

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