2009 - ending of another year!

With 2009 coming close to an end, I have been looking back at my portfolio and planning what is ahead.

3 New Years Resolutions:
1. quality over quantity
2. redesign of website to include my whole portfolio
3. more collaborations

group exhibition: "FRIDGIDART"

©Michelle Murphy and Monica Johnson

painting: "for/four friendship"

new series of work: "America, a Comedy"

The paintings in this series, "America a Comedy", are painted from photographs that I am taking of America's Funniest Home Videos. I found that there are many still frames that are truly surreal, and that like some of the Documentary work of Errol Morris...are proof of the strange and extraordinary occurrences in every day life.

"The Future"

"Transformation"

MOT(el)

credit to everyone who participated in MOT(el):
Michelle, Baptiste, Robin, Vanessa, Wes, Chris, and Austin

"on longing"

new series of work: "Staycation"

"Staycation" is a period of time in which an individual or family stays at home rather than vacationing during a financial strain or crisis. The term was thought to be first developed in 2007.

Photos in this 1/2 "found" and 1/2 self-produced series are to show what vacation experiences that Americans' have had in the past. "Staycation" photographic series are vignettes of the exotic, indigenous people, mundane snapshots, and sublime landscapes...showing all that contemporary "Staycation-ers" are missing.

Creating a disjointed anthropological adventure, I hope to subtlety point out comparisons between our current state of domestic American life versus the "undomestic" experience of the indigenous people.

exhibition: Asterisk Gallery at Ingenuity

Thank you to Dana from Asterisk Gallery for the exhibition opportunity and Austin Kotting, Sam Meador, Chris Ryan, Vanessa LaValle, Jose Luna for helping me with the installation.

exhibition: MADE IN THE 216

paintings for sale @ Little Paper Planes

2 of my "Ufology" paintings are for sale and featured on Little Paper Planes, a curated distro site (based out of San Francisco) of artists' works and gifts.
Check out LPP + decorate your walls:
Little Paper Planes

published work: MESSY Magazine

Genna Petrolla wrote a feature about my work in the online publication Messy Magazine Issue #3.
Download (the pdf) of Issue #3 here:
Messy Magazine

Tacoma Narrows Bridge @ Asterisk Gallery - Feb 21, 2009 - 10pm

My band/art performance group is playing on Sat. February 21st at Asterisk Gallery in Tremont, Ohio - 10:00pm.

Asterisk Gallery in Tremont - 3 person exhibition - Feb 13, 2009

about the exhibition:
"Thrice is Nice"

gallery info: http://www.asteriskgallery.com/contact.html

Pecha Kucha Night - lecture Feb 5, 2009 @ House of Blues

photo credit: Matt Smith

Tacoma Narrows Bridge @ the Language Foundry - Jan. 30, 2009

My band/performative art group is playing at the Language Foundry in Tremont, Ohio - Friday January 30, 2009.

band site: http://www.tacomanarrowsbridge.blogspot.com/