I've chosen to report on these three artists as a group, because it is the constancy
of elements in their work, as well as the range
of expression within their self - imposed parameters, that bring greater depth to their
painting, and certainly more
profound pleasure in our perception
of it.
Murphy creates a new sublime - a form
of art that refers to a
profound unknowing - by incorporating
elements of chance in the form
of lines, data, and text in his
paintings, drawings, digital works, and LED matrix work.
She's chosen to report on these three artists as a group, because «the constancy
of elements in their work, as well as the range
of expression within their self - imposed parameters, bring greater depth to their
painting, and certainly more
profound pleasure in our perception
of it.»
Humour, sadness, elation, depression; pathos, ebullience, turbulence; love, hate, attraction, revulsion; pointing, pushing, pulling, cavorting; turning, tossing, tumbling, twisting; rock and roll, victory and defeat; all the
elements, in fact,
of intense human interaction and drama that were once the province
of figurative art, particularly figurative
painting — where they formed the pretext upon which was built a
profound diversity
of imaginative visual constructs — are seemingly no longer at the behest
of figurative art, which languishes in states
of mock - academia or faux - avant - gardism, by turns bathetic, mundane or grotesque... all that human content is now, surprisingly but necessarily, the prerogative
of the abstract artist.