Catherine Murphy is an American painter who represents realism. Her detailed paintings explore reality like an area of the permanent change and show the abstract things through the common objects and events.
Background
Catherine Murphy was born in 1946 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.
She revealed her passion and abilities for drawing at the young age. So, in the third grade, she was allowed to produce her drawings on a blackboard in the back of the classroom.
Catherine spent her childhood in Lexington, Massachusetts. Murphy’s relations with art were rare – her first visit to the art museum was in a high school.
Education
Catherine Murphy began her artistic training at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine. She graduated in 1966.
The following year, she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Pratt Institute in New York City.
In 2006, the Institute gave her the Honorary Doctorate degree.
Career
Catherine Murphy started her professional career in 1971 when her artworks were demonstrated at the Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.
Since then the artist has regularly exhibited throughout the United States, including such galleries and museums as the Queens Museum of Art in New York, the Indianapolis Museum of Art (1974), the Danforth Museum of Art, in Framingham, Massachusetts, the Brooklyn Museum in New York City (1980), Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston (1983), the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1985), the Daniel Weinberg Gallery in Los Angeles (1989), the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1997), Harvard University Art Museums in Cambridge, Massachusetts (2006), the Weatherspoon Art Museum at the University of North Carolina (2012), Peter Freeman, Inc. in New York City (2018).
Besides, Murphy participated in some shows in Germany, Spain and Japan (in 1991, the Miyagi Museum of Art) as well and has collaborated with Xavier Fourcade, Inc. based in New York City.
Moreover, the artist devoted 22 years to the work of a senior critic in painting at the Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences which stuff she had joined in 1989. Currently, Catherine Murphy is carrying out the duties of the Tepper Family endowed professor in Visual Arts at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University in New Brunswick.
The artist lives and works in Poughkeepsie, New York, United States.
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Quotations:
"My paintings are not about that one moment of seeing. My paintings are about time passing. Time is depicted in a very different way than most people even think about time- which is cinematically, and through the camera's eye."