Rose Weight and Other Works

Jennifer Murphy makes work that is somewhere between drawing, collage, and installation -- blurring different layers of visual representation and material reality. She uses a variety of material (from silk, velvet, and lace, to garbage bags, dollar store finds, and wild turkey feathers) to create surreal versions of the natural world.

From an assorted collection of images and text culled from the books, Murphy has created a set of new wall works and sculpture. It is a world where rainbows are made of gems, frogs are made of coins, spiders are made of fishing lures, hands are made of shells, cloud-like curtains are made of horses and butterflies, and spheres are made from printed text, cut open to reveal rainbow glows. Here we find a playful sense of scale, and a shifting of inside and outside.