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August 19 (Saturday) 12:00 pm - September 24 (Sunday) 4:00 pm
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The Gallery at Highland Center for the Arts is pleased to present Anne Taylor Davis’ Wonderland. Paintings and drawings, old and very new. Artist Statement I wanted to see what would happen if
Event Details
The Gallery at Highland Center for the Arts is pleased to present Anne Taylor Davis’ Wonderland.
Paintings and drawings, old and very new.
Artist Statement
I wanted to see what would happen if I had a show of my paintings in this beautiful qspace. Such big walls. What would I paint? What is my subject matter? I enjoy looking at the world. I like watching people sitting around, cats doing whatever, dogs running through the grass, bodies at the beach and always animals.
And I love color.
I keep sketchbooks where I make journal entries about daily life. There is a lot of discussion of the creative process in these pages and thoughts about what I’m working on and how it’s going. Some of these drawings become paintings—paintings that rarely resemble the drawings. The paintings always go in some other direction: a group of people becomes a lone sitter or a dog on a couch keeps getting his couch moved and reupholstered. I am inspired by life but I don’t work from life. I like to make things up.
Every painting feels like an experiment in making an image I want to see.
What is my art about? What am I trying to do? What will my paintings look like? I really want to see what will happen next.
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Upcoming Exhibits
Time
September 29 (Friday) 12:00 pm - November 5 (Sunday) 4:00 pm
Event Details
Paintings by Adelaide Murphy Tyrol & Photographs by Richard J Murphy Exhibition: September 30 – November 5 | Wednesday – Sunday | 12PM – 4PMOpening Reception: September 30 | 5PM-7PM Richard J.
Event Details
Paintings by Adelaide Murphy Tyrol & Photographs by Richard J Murphy
Exhibition: September 30 – November 5 | Wednesday – Sunday | 12PM – 4PM
Opening Reception: September 30 | 5PM-7PM
Richard J. Murphy
Richard Murphy’s professional career has been as a newspaper photojournalist. He began at the Holyoke (MA) Transcript-Telegram, worked for a decade at the Jackson Hole (WY) News, and a quarter of a century at the Anchorage (AK) Daily News. Murphy was on the Anchorage team that won the Pulitzer Prize gold medal for public service in 1998, and leader of the team nominated for a Pulitzer for their photographic coverage of the Exxon Valdez oil spill the next year. He has taught photojournalism at the University of Alaska in Anchorage and Fairbanks. His current work focuses on climate change and environmental transition.
Artist Statement
A Sense of Place
My personal sense of place is informed by the natural landscape around me.
My “home mountain” anchors me in Alaska. Rising 4,000 ft from the sea, McHugh Peak dominates three quadrants of the small valley where I live, about a quarter of the way up the mountain. It is also the home of lynx and coyote, black and brown bears, moose, a wolverine and the occasional wolf.
The peak is also the home of clouds. The maritime environment of the western edge of the Chugach Range spawns hurricane force winds, brutal winter Chinook storms, regular squalls of rain and snow, and a bare alpine landscape. The cloud dance around the peak is sometimes a fast moving burlesque fan dance of revelation and concealment, sometimes a slow moving evolution, like a film of a Chinese landscape being painted.
All of the photographs shown here were taken from the same spot, using similar lenses, It is the mountain, and the atmosphere it spawns, that set the mood.
The Melt
While Alaska is experiencing many of the same climate-related changes the rest of the world
is seeing, the predominate effect in the north is “the melt”. Alaska and all the arctic regions are
experiencing warming at twice the rate of the rest of the globe. Ice is an essential part of the
arctic landscape, both above and below the ground. The seasonal ice of the ocean, lakes and
rivers, and the permafrost underlying the land are being reduced by climatic change.
Sea ice, which used to protect coastal areas from winter storms, arrives later and leaves sooner
in the year than it historically has, exposing coastal environments to massive erosion. Alaska’s glaciers, which account for 25% of global glacial melt, are in general retreat.
The melting of permafrost which has underlain northern Alaska since the Pleistocene Age, is
creating a thermokarst landscape that alters the very topography of the land. The potent greenhouse gas methane is released when this ancient ice melts.
None of the ice in these photographs remains in the state you are viewing them. They have all gone to fluid, or in the most recent images, are in the process of doing so. Ice is already forming in parts of Alaska now as you are looking at these images, but there will be less of it this year. Some will never return.
Adelaide Murphy Tyrol
Adelaide Murphy Tyrol studied painting at the Parsons School of Design and The Art Students League in New York City. She received my Masters of Fine Arts at The Art Institute of Boston. Murphy has made a living as a large format commercial scene painter in New York City and concurrently- as a small format natural history illustrator for regional newspapers and magazines. Her personal work is influenced by these two disparate and life long practices but is a decided and necessary retreat from them.
Murphy’s large format commercial work has influenced her method of painting ( splashing, pooling, dragging paint and painting with 4’ handle brushes with canvases on the floor) and her small illustrative work has helped to educate her in subject matter preferences.
Artist Statement
A Sense of Place
I believe the power of nature lies beyond the caliper and in that liminal zone between mind and matter- there can be a delicate bridge leading to a deeper understanding of life. These paintings in particular address different perspectives of reality—how we can see the macro and the micro—the object and it’s reflection, the order and the chaos, the far and the distant—at the same time.
These ideas are companions to my work; they excite me and keep me intellectually connected to my world. But a painting, first and foremost, is a physical entity. Each piece is a visual balancing act weighing light with dark, smooth with rough, deliberate with accidental. A painting is formed by many things, but in the end, it is paint on panel. Somehow this balancing act of materials and physical properties has the potential to express deep and untethered parts of the mind.
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