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In her distinctive approach to painting, Murphy generates imagery through a combination of slow layering and fast applications of oil paint, animating a delicate urgency and sparking sensations of both epiphany and discomfort. Fictive characters are the focal points of Murphy’s paintings. The figures fluctuate under the viewer’s eye, revealing and concealing themselves behind and via the materiality of the medium. The paintings have evolved through Murphy’s experimental exploration of paint. In her hands, painting is an act of imaginative action—colour and gesture are live wires. The images committed to canvas arrive there through an ongoing process of reinvention. A true identity is revealed only to then conceal itself and re-emerge as something other but no less true.
Aileen Murphy (Born Sligo, 1984, lives and works in Berlin), graduated from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin (2007) and then studied under Amy Sillman and Monika Baer at Städelschule Frankfurt, graduating in 2018.
Aileen Murphy (Born Sligo, 1984, lives and works in Berlin), graduated from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin (2007) and then studied under Amy Sillman and Monika Baer at Städelschule Frankfurt, graduating in 2018.
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Exhibitions
AILEEN MURPHY
food that I would feed my lover
24.06. – 06.08.2022
FABLES OF RESURRECTION
28.05. – 08.08.2020
VARIOUS OTHERS 2018
Hosting Project Native Informant, London
14.09. – 10.11.2018
AILEEN MURPHY
Naked Cheerleaders in My Chest
02.12.2017 – 03.03.2018
DIE MARMORY SHOW III
Guilty Pleasures
curated with Eva Birkenstock
28.04. – 15.07.2016